Apachería was the term used to designate the region of the various Apache countries. The earliest written records have it as a region extending from north of the Arkansas River into what are now the northern states of

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

and from Central Texas through

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to Central

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.Frank D. Reeve, "The Apache Indians in Texas," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 50 (October 1946) Most notable were the Apaches of the

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in the eastern area of Apachería, located: *south of the Arkansas River in

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and eastern

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*in Eastern New Mexico *in the Llano Estacado and Central Great Plains of western

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and

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, east of the Pecos River and north of the Edwards Plateau.

Bibliography

* * Thrapp, Dan L. (1979) ''The Conquest of Apacheria''. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press.

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