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"In The Geronimo Campaign, Odie B. Faulk offers a lively and often chilling account of the war that raged between Apaches and U.S. soldiers over the deserts and mountains of Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico in the mid 1880s, and traces its legacy well past Geronimo's ultimate surrender. He is especially concerned with the campaign's wider historical setting and significance, and with the sad record of betrayal of Native Americans by the U.S....
2) I, Tom Horn
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A fictionalized first-person narrative of the life and times of the famed and notorious nineteenth-century cavalry scout, interpreter, Indian fighter, rodeo star, detective, and feared manhunter,who met his end in a controversial travesty of a murder trial.
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Deep in the untamed Southern Arizona Territory, the United States Army embarks on a final campaign to rid the area of the remaining Apache warriors and capture and kill their famed war chief Geronimo. Caught between the Army and the Apache are Jacob Cox, a rancher trying to bring peace to his hard patch of land and a new life to his sister Martha. Martha is a woman perfectly suited to her wild new home, able to shoot down an Indian and match wits...
4) Geronimo
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Biography of an Apache warrior who led other Apache warriors in battles to save his people from the white man.
8) Geronimo
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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.
10) St. Agnes' stand
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Nat Swanson killed a man in West Texas and the dead man's buddies are tracking him to see him hang. Nat runs to the desert of New Mexico Territory where he stumbles across the survivors of an Apache ambush: three nuns and seven orphans. Sister St. Agnes, the leader of the survivors is convinced that Nat has been sent by the Almighty to rescue them; Nat knows that it will take an act of God to get out of the desert alive.
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This detailed and highly informative story of the nortorious Apache is accompanied by over thrity photographs, maps and line illustrations. In addition four superb colour paintings capture dramatically real incidents from the life-lone conflicts of the battling Chiricahua renegade.
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Some of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws. Tom Horn (1860-1903) was both. Lawman, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw, and assassin, this darkly enigmatic figure has fascinated Americans ever since his death by hanging the day before his forty-third birthday. In this masterful historical biography, Larry Ball, a distinguished historian of western lawmen and outlaws, presents...
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Based on an historical event, Trinidad Verdín's story reveals the courage, suffering, and lessons a twelve-year-old girl learns about Apaches and herself during her captivity with the Naiche-Geronimo band hiding, fighting, and raiding in northern Sonora. After breaking their surrender agreement with General George Crook in late March 1886, forty Apaches (eighteen men, fourteen women, and six children) led by Geronimo established a camp at the top...