Chatto's Promise

The Saga of the Apache Wars and the life and times of Chatto, a Chiricahua Chieftain who raided and killed with Cochise and Geronimo but lost his young wife and two children along the way. After staging one of the most daring and deadly raids in Arizona history, he was captured by U.S. forces and he turned to them to try to get his family back. He became a scout, but that meant he was regarded as a spy and traitor by renegade Apaches, including Geronimo, who tried to kill him. Chatto's name did not go down in history like that of Geronimo. He did not become an icon. He faded away after one of the worst double crosses in western lore and was repaid for his life-threatening service to the U.S. Army, with 27 years in prison. It's time for his story to be told.