Apache Legends & Lore of Southern New Mexico BTS The cactus grows across the

The cactus grows across the sun-soaked deserts of the American Southwest

and Mojave Deserts

and other first-person testimonies

Photography by Larry Ulrich

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Apache Legends & Lore of Southern New Mexico BTS The cactus grows across theStorytelling has been a vital and vivid tradition in Apache life. Coyote tales, the creation legend and stories of historic battles with Comanche and Anglo intruders create a colorful mosaic of tribal heritage. Percy Bigmouth, a prominent oral historian of the Mescalero and Lipan Apache tribes, realized in the early twentieth century that the old ways were waning. He wrote in longhand what he had learned from his father, Scout Bigmouth, a prison camp