Apache Kid (Haskay-bay-nay-ntayl)
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| Birth name | Haskay-bay-nay-ntayl |
| Nickname(s) | Apache Kid |
| Born | c. 1860 San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona, United States |
| Died | Unknown, possibly September 1894 |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Service/ |
United States Army |
| Years of service | 1881–1887 |
| Rank | Sergeant |
| Unit | United States Army Indian Scouts |
| Battles/wars |
Apache Wars Battle of Cibecue Creek Crawford Affair Geronimo Campaign Kelvin Grade Massacre |
Haskay-bay-nay-ntayl (c. 1860 – after 1894), better known as the Apache Kid, was a White Mountain Apache scout and later a notorious renegade active in the borderlands of the U.S. states of Arizona and New Mexico in the late 19th and possibly the early 20th centuries.
His exact date of birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been born sometime in the 1860s. His year of death is generally given as 1894, but some New Mexico cattle ranchers claimed he was alive until the 1930s. The Apache Kid Wilderness in New Mexico is named after him. The Apache Kid character in Marvel Comics was also named after him but otherwise has no connection.
Haskay-bay-nay-ntayl was captured by Yuma Indians as a boy, and after being freed by the U.S. Army, he became a street orphan in army camps. As a teenager, in the mid-1870s, the Kid met and was essentially adopted by Al Sieber, the Chief of the Army Scouts. A few years later, in 1881, the Kid enlisted with the U.S. Cavalry as an Indian scout, in a program designed by General George Crook to help quell raids by hostile bands of Apache. By July 1882, owing to his remarkable abilities in the job, he was promoted to sergeant. Shortly thereafter he accompanied Crook on an expedition into the Sierra Madre Occidental. He worked on assignment both in Arizona and northern Mexico over the next couple of years, but in 1885 he was involved in a riot while intoxicated, and to prevent his being hanged by Mexican authorities, Sieber sent him back north.
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