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Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Description
A decade-long project by the Academy Award-nominated actor and best-selling creator of The Lost Boy reimagines the experiences of Cochise, a young Geronimo and the war-torn Apache nation of 1872 as their culture is decimated in the aftermath of an attack on the Mexican village of Azripe.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon, a stunningly vivid historical account of the manhunt for Geronimo and the 25-year Apache struggle for their homeland.
They called him Mickey Free. His kidnapping started the longest war in American history, and both sides—the Apaches and the white invaders—blamed him for it. A mixed-blood warrior who moved uneasily between the worlds of the Apaches and the American soldiers,...
They called him Mickey Free. His kidnapping started the longest war in American history, and both sides—the Apaches and the white invaders—blamed him for it. A mixed-blood warrior who moved uneasily between the worlds of the Apaches and the American soldiers,...
3) Geronimo
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Uncovers the truth behind the myths and rumors that enshroud the famous Apache's life, describing how the warrior escaped capture, what his training was like, and explains why he was feared by both whites and other Apaches.
4) Geronimo
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
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Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Two Roads West
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Get ready for an in depth look at the most famous Indian in the world and how he got there. Bob Boze Bell's controversial new book on "The Illustrated Life & Times of Geronimo" lays out the long and bloody path of Goyathlay (He Who Yawns) from warrior to celebrity to legend. With hundreds-yes hundreds!-of never before seen images, great maps and top notch scholarship, this is the book you need if you want to know the truth about Geronimo
Author
Publisher
Helion & Company Limited
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This volume covers the background to the Victorio Campaign of 1879-1881. In the early 1870s, a mixture of diplomacy and successful military campaigning by General George Crook led to the formation of several reservations for various Apache groups such as the Mescalero, Chiricahua and Western Apaches. Almost before the ink was dry on these treaties, an effort was made to rationalize this arrangement by placing the Apaches upon one reservation (the...
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