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Geronimo : a biography

Alexander B. Adams

(A Da Capo paperback)

Da Capo Press, 1990

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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Putnam, 1971

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Description

In the Apaches' final campaign, Geronimo led 19 warriors against 5,000 U.S. troops. No Apaches were killed, and the U.S. suffered heavy casualties. For the Apaches could travel seventy miles a day on foot, lay a deadly ambush in country so open a white man could not find a hiding place, and elude pursuit by scattering in every direction, only to reassemble as soon as the force was gone. Probably the greatest foot soldiers ever known, they held the U.S. Army at bay for forty years. This book tells the stories of Geronimo, his Apache warriors, and his American enemies with vigor and verve. Unequaled in depth and scope, this definitive biography is an engrossing, dramatic, colourful, historically accurate account of a long-misunderstood figure.

Table of Contents

* About Some of the Names * Treachery at Santa Rita del Cobre * In a Fortress of Mountains and Deserts * The Appearance of a New Enemy * The Training of a Warrior * Massacre at Janos * Revenge at Arizpe * Raiding into Mexico * A Lieutenants Mistakes * The battle of Apache Pass * Red-Hot Bayonets * War Without Victory * Massacre at Camp Grant * Efforts at Peace * More Broken Promises

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