Carol Ann Didier

Apache Lover Carol Ann Didier

The wild and free Apaches are finally subdued and confined to a reservation in SW Arizona. Cougar and Gabriella meet at a reception for the Apache tribe held in Washington DC, hosted by President Ulysses S. Grant. Tom Jeffords, the Indian Agent, has arranged for a delegation of Chiricahua Apaches to meet with the president and Congress to plead for better living conditions on the first Indian Reservation in Arizona. He hopes to convince the political leaders that better treatment of the Apaches, schooling, sanitary conditions and health care need to be provided as well as cattle and food supplies to help them start a new way of life. Gabriella is a young debutante just out of finishing school in Baltimore. Cougar is a throwback to the unbridled Apache warrior of Cochise's days. Cougar hates the reservation and the loss of the old ways, but he cannot deny the attraction he feels for the white nah-lin (young girl). Gabriella doesn't see anything to like about Cougar and calls him an oaf and a barbarian. No matter, Cougar thinks, they have 'looked' at each other and someday she will be his. This is the fourth and last book in the Apache Warrior series by Carol Ann Didier.