Apache drawings from Fort Sill, Oklahoma

Salvete Omnes,

on April 13 passed 140th anniversary of the arrival of the first Chiricahua Apaches deported to Fort Marion, Florida (San Augustine) - April 13, 1886. 

From Carli Digital Collections (Newberry Library) comes a set of ink and watercolor drawings created by an Apache (White Mountain) artist Frederick Gokliz, son in law of the famous leader  Cochise, who was deported, along with the Chiricahuas and  Warm Springs as prisoners of war, first as prisoners to Fort Marion in Florida, and then to Mount Vernon, Alabama, until 1894 and finally at Fort Sill, Oklahoma since 1894 to his death in 1901. 

Gokliz drew and painted his plates  most likely at Fort Sill , where they were acquired  for Edward E. Ayer.

warriors - 

  . Apache warrior and a woman on horseback

hunting bear & bison 

more images at the Carli portal

Valete

Justianian military and wars in books and podcasts 2025

 Salvete Omnes,

Mount Nebo mosaic 

The end of the year is near and there have been some books and podcasts about the military history of the emperor Justinian I. I still have an old book by Roy Boss  Justinian's War - Belisarius, Narses and the Reconquest of the West (1993) from Montvert Publishing.

Podcasts I have listened to within last month or so: 

Historians Adrian Goldsworthy and Geoffrey Greatrex talk about the Justinian I and his commander Belisarius 

and the historian Procopius (his translated books are available on Archive). 

riders without stirrups with long lances - Mount Nebo 

and here Adrian Goldsworthy is talking about the 'The Army that Retook Rome.'

* Osprey Military Publishing just released a book - Armies of Justinian the Great, AD 527-65 - by Raffale D'Amato.
I have not read yet this publication (rahter tiny 48 pages), but I have seen some plates from the book - illustrations done by Catalin Draghici and Giorgio Albertini. 

* Another publisher form UK, Helion Company, published a large (300 pages)  book, - Birth of the Byzantine Army 476-661 CE (sic!). Vol 1. Illustrations by Renato Dalmaso. 

I have not seen this book, but appears rather interesting 

Valete