Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place Volume 142

Debo, Angie

ISBN 10: 0806118288 / ISBN 13: 9780806118284

Editore: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G0806118288I4N00

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Draws on Geronimo's own account of his life, traditional historical studies, and the firsthand narratives of warriors who followed him into battle and people who knew him personally to provide a portrait of the personality and great influence of the Apache leader

Product Description: On September 5, 1886, the entire nation rejoiced as the news flashed from the Southwest that the Apache war leader Geronimo had surrendered to Brigadier General Nelson A. Miles. With Geronimo, at the time of his surrender, were Chief Naiche (the son of the great Cochise), sixteen other warriors, fourteen women, and six children. It had taken a force of 5,000 regular army troops and a series of false promises to "capture" the band.Yet the surrender that day was not the end of the story of the Apaches associated with Geronimo. Besides his small band, 394 of his tribesmen, including his wife and children, were rounded up, loaded into railroad cars, and shipped to Florida. For more than twenty years Geronimo's people were kept in captivity at Fort Pickens, Florida; Mount Vernon Barracks, Alabama; and finally Fort Sill, Oklahoma. They never gave up hope of returning to their mountain home in Arizona and New Mexico, even as their numbers were reduced by starvation and disease and their children were taken from them to be sent to the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania.

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Titolo: Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place ...
Casa editrice: University of Oklahoma Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1982
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket