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Post by tiswin on Apr 15, 2011 21:08:07 GMT -5
So beyond google. what do you guys know about him> Any photos? From what I have read, he was an "unsavory" character who managed to play the Apaches, Mexicans and Americans all against each other to his advantage. What say you?
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Post by kayitah on Apr 16, 2011 9:35:20 GMT -5
Very interesting topic. I have also been wondering if there's a photograph of him. A colorful frontier character...
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Post by dianec on May 9, 2011 13:21:49 GMT -5
Hope this helps? www.farwest.it/?p=571(Translate at the bottom of page if you need to.) Zebina Nathaniel Streeter tra gli Apache Edited by Paul Brizzi An Apache warrior Streeter is a misunderstood character, for this mysterious and intriguing. He was an adventurer in life he held the roles of sailor, soldier, scout, a hero in Mexico, but, above all, lived with the Apache Geronimo and Juh and participate in their raids. Born in Genoa, New York, in 1838, by William A. Streeter and his cousin Hannah C. Day, Zebina began his wandering life as a child, running away from school for eight years, to return home after six long months. At age 11 he embarked, traveling the seas as a sailor, and once in Panama tried to abandon ship, but was chased with hounds, was wounded by a shot and recaptured. In 1857, left the seas forever, Streeter in Utah participated in the expedition led by Albert Sidney Johnston, the future hero of the civil war, as an employee of the Quartermaster.Then joined his father in California, where the latter had remarried and joined during the years of the Civil War in the 1st Battalion Native Cavalry. In the army had problems with drunk and unruly and was repeatedly promoted to sergeant and then demoted to private. After the war, Zebina is dismissed in December 1865. Zebina Streeter was about 1 meter high and 66 cm, had clear meat, gray eyes and blond hair copper. During the war years in Mexico, shortly after the end of the Civil War, Streeter joined the ranks of Mexico's Benito Juarez, Maximilian's fighting forces, sent to Mexico by Napoleon III.
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Post by kayitah on May 9, 2011 14:50:55 GMT -5
Thanks for your post, dianec. I just received a book about him, the only one I could find. It's called "White Apache - The Life and Times of Zebina Nathaniel Streeter" by Lynn R. Bailey. It's pretty good, even though I'm not through with it yet. If someone wants to know something specific about Streeter, I can see if there's something about it in the book.
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Post by dianec on May 9, 2011 15:17:04 GMT -5
Thank you Kayita for the information! Another book I must read!
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Post by Dietmar on May 15, 2011 7:33:33 GMT -5
Here´s a bit more about Streeter: www.santafenewmexican.com/Opinion/Early-adventurer-became--White-Apache-Trail Dust: Early adventurer became 'White Apache' The New Mexican Posted: Friday, January 07, 2011 - 1/8/11
In its day, the old Silver City Enterprise was one of New Mexico's outstanding territorial newspapers.
Recently, while I was reading through its back file, a short notice dated July 12, 1889, caught my attention.
Briefly, it referred to a man identified only as "Streeter," who had been killed by a Mexican in the town of Nacosari, Sonora, that Mexican state just south of Arizona.
And here's the interesting part: "Streeter was widely known as the 'White Apache,' " who had lived with the Indians many years and "assisted them in their outbreaks."
The news report failed to make clear whether this individual had been captured as a child and raised by the Indians, or joined the tribe voluntarily as an adult and then gone on raids against his own people. Instances of both were well known to frontier residents.
Two recent cases of captured boys in the Silver City areas had made headlines. The first involved the abduction of 6-year-old Charley McComas.
On March 28, 1883, he and his parents, Judge H.C. McComas and Juanita McComas, had been riding in a buckboard on the road from Silver City to Lordsburg when they were attacked by an Apache war party. The two adults were slain, and a traumatized Charley was carried away, never to be seen again, at least by whites.
Reservation Indians in later years would claim the boy had been killed soon after his capture. But rumor persisted that he grew up among a handful of Bronco Apaches who remained free and conducted small raids well into the 20th century.
The second youngster who fell into Apache hands was Jimmy McKinn, age 10, seized while tending his family's cows on the Mimbres River east of Silver City in 1885.
Jimmy, unlike Charley, was liberated a year later at Geronimo's surrender. Famed Tombstone, Ariz., photographer C.S. Fly was on hand and took a rare picture of a much Indianized Jimmy among his Apache playmates.
In 1997, I published a book detailing the McComas affair. An article of mine had already appeared on the Jimmy McKinn episode. Thus, having knowledge of the sources describing the Apache wars, I was surprised to run upon "Streeter" in the Enterprise, because somehow I'd missed him.
I began prowling through the 70 or so Apache books in my personal library. Before long, I had Streeter's full name and a bare outline of his unusual story.
Zebina Nathaniel Streeter (born in 1838) was an unsavory adventurer on the Southwestern frontier, described by Apache expert Dan Thrapp as "the most intriguing figure of those perilous times."
This Streeter spent much of his early life in California, until in the 1850s when he went to Mexico, fought in the revolutionary forces of Benito Juárez and rose to the rank of colonel.
He next shows up at central New Mexico's Fort Craig, serving the Army as a scout and becoming well-acquainted with the leaders of various Apache bands. For a time, we find him living with a New Mexican common-law wife at the settlement of Cañada Alamosa (today Monticello) northwest of Truth or Consequences.
In the 1870s, he was reported to be serving as a deputy sheriff at Silver City. Next, the footloose Streeter held a post at the San Carlos Agency in Arizona.
There, he helped expose powerful politicians in an "Indian Ring," who were stealing money and government supplies meant for Apaches living on reservations.
His foes declared him an outlaw and put a $5,000 price on Streeter's head. The accused fled south across the border into Mexico's Sierra Madre wilderness.
He found and joined Juh, among the most able of southern Apache leaders, having developed a friendship with him while living in New Mexico.
Thereafter, Zebina Streeter rode and raided with Juh's band on every foray made against both Mexicans and Americans. He had become a true renegade, and the "White Apache," as the Enterprise labeled him.
As noted, the newspaper reported that Streeter had been killed in a Sonora town. I was able to add that this 51-year-old man had been showing unwanted attention to a young lady, and her brother shot him to death.
Historian Marc Simmons is author of numerous books on New Mexico and the Southwest. His column appears Saturdays.
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Post by carlos herrera on Nov 22, 2015 22:49:56 GMT -5
I HAVE PROFF THE ZEBINA STREETER WAS NOT KILL I HAVE CONTACT WITH SOME DECENDENT OF STREETER
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Post by gregor on Nov 23, 2015 4:37:26 GMT -5
This is what Dan L. Thrapp had on Streeter
Streeter, Zebina Nathaniel, renegade (Oct. 8. 1838 - June 26. 1889). B. at Genoa, New York. the son of William Adams Streeter (1811- 1902) and William's first wife and cousin, Hannah C. Day. Zebina at the age of 8 started off to school one day and did not return for six months; at II he went to sea. He followed the sea until 1856, making four voyages. ln that year he sought to desert his ship at Panama, but was pursued with bloodhounds, shot and recaptured. Apparently his wound prevented him from being taken back aboard the vessel however, for he is next heard from during Albert Sidney Johnston's campaign in the Mormon War of 1857 when he served with the quartermaster as a clerk. Teamster or something similar. While out hunting for the mess one day he narrowly escaped capture by the Cheyenne, then hostile.
He went on to California from Salt Lake City, stopping with his father now married to Josefa Valdez. A third generation descendant of Jose Francisco Ortega, founder of Santa Barbara. The family residing there; here he met the oldest son of the couple, William Charles Streeter (1851-1919) with whom he would closely associate later in life. Zebina was commissioned a second lieutenant in Company B, 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry May 9, 1864, was court-martialed for drunkenness and dismissed October 21. On December 5 he enlisted as a private in Company C, 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry for one year during which he was now and then made sergeant but each time quickly dropped back to private again. He was mustered out at San Francisco December S, 1865, on expiration of his term of service having served. honestly and faithfully, according to his discharge. He was described at That time as 5 feet, 5 inches, in height, of light complexion, grey eyes with auburn hair. Streeter went to Mexico as he later reported, was commissioned under the name of Don Casimero to serve under Juarez and emerged a colonel; no evidence has been found to substantiate the claim. but it is not improbable. He was fluent in Spanish and had learned something of the Apache tongue and served as an interpreter and scout at Fort Craig, New Mexico; here he became a friend of Tom Jeffords, and acquainted with such noteworthy Apaches as Loco, Victorio, Juh, Geronimo and perhaps Cochise; this report is confirmed by numerous dispatches and communications from Fort Craig files of the day. Occasionally Streeter was sent on delicate missions to or with the Indians. and so far u the record shows performed them satisfactorily. His knowledge of the Apache tongue increased (it is said he later married into the tribe. although this Iacks confirmation).
ln 1872 Streeter said he accompanied Howard on the General's celebrated mission to Cochise. No official account confirms his presence. But Joseph Sladen in a lengthy private communication does so, asserting that Howard's party picked up Streeter (then living with a Mexican "wife") at Canada Alamosa ( Monticello). New Mexico and took him along to the Dragoon Mountains for the lengthy conference with Cochise. Later Streeter was in Grant County where he said he became a deputy to Sheriff Harvey Whitehall. who was elected in 1874. There is no confirmation of Streeter's service as deputy but records for the period are virtually non-existent so that proves little. Several reports have Streeter working as a clerk at the San Carlos Apache Agency. Arizona although once more confirmation is lacking. He reported that he came to cross-purposes with the so-called “Indian ring," and was run out of Arizona as an outlaw with a $5.000 price on his head; this basic assertion is supported by contemporary newspaper stories, but efforts to check it out in detail have been unavailing.
At any rate he apparently then joined Juh's band of Southern Apaches and thereafter until the death of Juh traveled and raided with them. He has taken an active part in every campaign made by Juh in Mexico and Arizona." If true this would put him in the 1882 raid by Juh to San Carlos where Loco and his band or some 700 Apaches were herded out to Mexico, the most spectacular feat of Apache arms on record: Geronimo also was along on this roar, as a Subordinate to Juh. There are confirmed reports of a few of Streeter’s activities during subsequent years. In 1880 he may have attempted to assist the poet-scout Jack Crawford when the latter tried to contact Victorio and bring that great war Ieader in, but the mission was unsuccessful. At some time Streeter had a broken leg attended to at Tombstone. In April 1883 Streeter, then according to Mexican newspapers "leading a band of Apaches." was wounded in a fight between Apaches and Mexicans. Captured and taken to Hermosillo, where for some reason he was later released. Henry Flipper reported meeting him in Sonora.
ln June 1886 he joined Leonard Wood who was hunting Geronimo in northern Mexico as Wood reports in his diary which calls him "old man Streeter," although Zebina was but 48 at the time. Dobie in “Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver”, refers to “Casimero Streeter", relates his career in a somewhat imaginary way, and in correspondence said he could not recall where he had picked up the Story. Streeter was shot and killed at Nacozari, Sonora by the brother of a girl to whom he had been paying attention. An official investigation was held into the incident, but with results unreported. He was buried informally at Nacozari, an Anglo "making a few remarks over the grave”, the site of which is now a small community plaza.
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Post by gregor on Nov 23, 2015 4:49:54 GMT -5
Addition:
In his section on Streeter’s half-brother, William Charles Streeter, Thrapp describes an incident that occurred 22 years later. During a poker game in Nacozari in about 1911, William Charles Streeter shot and killed a man named Antonio Montaño. Thrapp: “One wonders whether there was some connection between the shooting of Zebina and the shooting by his brother, Charley, of the Mexican, both at Nacozari where the town was well policed and murders extremely rare.’ But it's a matter for speculation.
BTW: Zebina is a strange name. It is from the bible.
"Zebina, one of the sons of Nebo who had taken foreign wives after the return from Babylon,( Ezra 10:43 )"
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Post by dT on Dec 2, 2015 22:04:45 GMT -5
What an extraordinary story. If this biography of Streeter is even halfway true - he should have written a book. He would have made a lot of money :-)
dT
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Post by DT EXPERT on Apr 1, 2016 11:18:23 GMT -5
SOME THINK THAT STREETER CHANGE HIS COMPLETE NAME TOA A HISPANIC NAME AND HE DIE AT 80 YEARS OLD STILL LOOKING FOR THE OLD NEWS PAPERS FROM THAT TIME WHEN WAS A 5000 DOLLARS REWARD AND HAS HIA ALIAS NAME ON IT.
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Post by DT EXPERT on Apr 1, 2016 11:21:16 GMT -5
SOME THINK THAT STREETER CHANGE HIS COMPLETE NAME TO A HISPANIC NAME AND HE DIE AT 80 YEARS OLD STILL LOOKING FOR THE OLD NEWS PAPERS FROM THAT TIME WHEN WAS A 5000 DOLLARS REWARD AND ALIAS NAME ON IT.
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Post by saskia21 on Apr 17, 2016 8:20:43 GMT -5
Read somewhere he was married to Geronimo's daughter. Can't remember which book I read it in but can any one confirm this to be true?
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Post by Carlos Holguin on Dec 28, 2016 15:51:02 GMT -5
I HAVE PROFF THE ZEBINA STREETER WAS NOT KILL I HAVE CONTACT WITH SOME DECENDENT OF STREETER Could you send to me more information about the Zebina Streeter descendant please? Thanks!
My Email is carlholguin@gmail.com
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Post by Chihu on Jan 9, 2017 12:01:38 GMT -5
Very interesting topic. I have also been wondering if there's a photograph of him. A colorful frontier character...
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