Wife of Nino Cochise,                    Leader of "The Nameless Ones"       Minnie at Nino's grave with photographer Jeff Watts and good friend Eugene (Tombstone, AZ mayor).
COMING SOON: Photographs the last great Apache Chief was selling on Tombstone streets late in life--gifted me by his window during our Interviews. Seen here next week.		Later in life while working on the "High Chaparral" television show in Old Tucson, Nino met a cute blond who had gone there to watch production.

     Minnie was instantly taken with Nino.
     "It was his mannerisms, his features, his style, his strength," she said.
     "I've been in love with the Cochise men all
my whole life. But I never thought I'd get to
meet one of them."

Nino was pretty smitten with her too, spending hours with Minnie and her girlfriend who had made the trip from Tombstone her.

     Nino and Minnie spent time together only a few months before he realized she was meant to be with him the rest of his life. And from that day on she never left his side.

     When I asked her in an early interview, "What was being married to Nino like?" She responded, "Fun."

     "Life was always fun. He was fun. Everywhere we went people recognized him, we were celebrities. That was fun too. His sense of humor, his sense of fun what what made even the hard times, when he got sick, ok."  © 2005 Strasbaugh