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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
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Formats
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
Formats
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,...
Author
Series
Weird West tales volume 3
Publisher
Pyr
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When the time has come to end the spell that prevents U.S. expansion across the Mississippi River, the other medicine men create War Bonnet, a monsterous medicine man whose function is to stop Geronimo, Theodore Roosevelt, and Doc Holliday.
6) 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.
Author
Series
Weird West tales volume 2
Publisher
Pyr
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Doc Holliday needs to replenish his bankroll quickly and uses his skill as a shootist to turn bounty hunter. The biggest reward is for the death of Billy the Kid. Doc enlists the aid of both magic (Geronimo) and science (Thomas Edison).
8) Geronimo
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Weird West tales volume 4
Publisher
Pyr, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Doc Holliday, in 1885, gets a new lease on life when he teams up with a succession of historical figures to battle the enemies of a steampunk America. This time he enters the world of American paleontology, aided by the great Apache medicine man, Geronimo.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"William Tecumseh Sherman and Geronimo were keen strategists and bold soldiers, ruthless with their enemies. Over the course of the 1870s and 1880s these two war chiefs would confront each other in the final battle for the American West. When Sherman rose to commanding general of the Army, he was tasked with bringing Geronimo and his followers onto a reservation where they would live as farmers and ranchers. But Geronimo preferred to fight. The Last...
11) Geronimo
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"They were charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful and reckless. For hundreds of years, Native American leaders from Massasoit, Tecumseh, and Tenskwatawa, to Major Ridge, Geronimo, and Fools Crow valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction of their culture. Sometimes, their strategies were militaristic, but more often they were diplomatic,...
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