Mickey Free: The Apache Child Prisoner Turned DANGEROUS Bounty Hunter...

Mickey Free was born Felix Telles in the late 1840’s. What followed was a grave mistake that led to 25 years of intense warfare between the United States and the Chiricahua Apaches.
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[@jaydoster]

This morning I was introduced to Mickey Free while reading "The Chiricahua Apaches - A Concise History" by Bill Cavaliere. Coincidentally this evening (or consequently due to ethereal algorithms?) "Mickey Free: The Apache Child Prisoner..." surfaced on my TH-cam feed ! Pleased to say both fascinating accounts were in accord. . .

[@PaulShaw-ex7ri]

Thought scraping.

[@hectorfarm9416]

Mickey Free - “Half Mexican, Half Irish and Whole SOB” - Al Sieber

[@royrich7336]

Why faces blank??

[@a.mchamp9159]

I love your videos. I've always been fascinated by all things historical but after playing RDR2 I am fascinated to know about the real people of the Old West. Your videos are so interesting!

[@footprintsofthefrontier]

Much appreciated! We are definitely the place for RDR/RDR2 fans to get their old west video fix.

[@HootOwl513]

It's Son-OY-ta. Sono Eeta sounds Japanese. But only a local would know that.

[@edwardgoering1237]

In Movie Mr Horn [David Carradine] Well he know Apache language so Mr Severd {Richard Widmark got Mr Horn to help Mickey Free [ Mr Severd kept telling Mr Horn that Mickey Free can't Die

[@edwardgoering1237]

Richard Widmark played Al Sieber in Movie Mr Horn

[@jimmyconway8025]

So he never tracked down his real family? I mean its not like he wouldn't have remembered them he was 12 not 2.
Seems crazy.
He really took to the whole apache thing!
What a different world!
Cant even begin to wrap my head around all this.

[@Cobbmtngirl]

Wonder why he never went back to at least connect with his birth mother & siblings.

[@footprintsofthefrontier]

We wondered the same thing!

[@Cucurú-c9v]

It's because he became an Apache. The Apaches in those days did not discriminate on race. Especially since there's only one race, the human one. According to the Mescalero story of creation all humans came from one source, were dispersed among the earth. God changed their languages, features and colors. They then came back to unite with all humans, and because of all the changes, especially language, they then went back to the lands God sent them. Many groups of peoples came to join us and became Apache. We use Indé, the people.

[@dannyLbailey]

Tom Horn said Free was half irish.He had red hair.How many Mexicans have red hair?

[@Cucurú-c9v]

Oh a whole lot of 'em. I've met lots of them. Most guys like Tweet-Tweet and things happen, like nature. I know. I'm a red headed Apache much like Mickey Free. Mickey Free was Apache. It's not a race it's an Indé, a people.

[@megs4193]

It really seems as though you have such a passion for this, i love learning about it, and from this learning about our own stories about the original Tasmanians, and what happened to them, the aboriginal people, well...there's no original aboriginal people left in Tasmania 😥🥺💕💕💕 it's infuriating and devastating, they had so much they could of taught us, 😔❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹.