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Language
English
Description
Many a hardcase had died trying to tale the bank and settle an old score at the same time. But he never counted on meeting a beautiful woman and her trail-savvy but reckless father, headed straight for Apache country. Now Considine and his gang can either ride like hell for the border just ahead of an angry posse, or join the old man and his daughter in a desperate last stand against blood-hungry warriors. The choice is simple: risk the hangman's...
3) Geronimo
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
5) Hondo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
He was etched by the desert’s howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white men. Now the pioneer woman, the gunman, and the Apache warrior are caught in a drama of love, war, and honor.
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.
13) Geronimo
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the famous Apache warrior who fought for the right of Native Americans to live and roam freely on their homeland.
14) Faraway blue
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of a real-life, 19th century black soldier who fought against the Indians in New Mexico. He is Moses Williams, an ex-slave serving as sergeant in the Ninth Cavalry, and facing him is the great Apache warrior, Nana.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
"Using first-person accounts in historical archives, David Roberts presents many sides of the Native American rebellion that began in the mid-1800s. Once They Moved Like The Wind is the epic story of the battles between the Apaches and the United States Army for land and freedom. The larger-than-life characters of Geronimo, Cochise, and General George Crook move dramatically through these pages, illuminating the human story behind the Apache Wars."--...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1872. The place, the Apache nations, a region torn apart by decades of war. The people, like Goyahkla, lose his family and everything he loves. After having a vision, the young Goyahkla approaches the Apache leader Cochise, and the entire Apache nation, to lead an attack against the Mexican village of Azripe. It is this wild display of courage that transforms the young brave Goyakhla into the Native American hero Geronimo. But the war...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
In February 1861, the twelve-year-old son of Arizona rancher John Ward was kidnapped by Apaches. Ward followed their trail and reported the incident to patrols at Fort Buchanan, blaming a band of Chiricahuas led by the infamous warrior Cochise. Though Ward had no proof that Cochise had kidnapped his son, Lt. George Bascom organized a patrol and met with the Apache leader, who, not suspecting anything was amiss, had brought along his wife, his brother,...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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, he was never trusted by either but desperately needed by both. He was the only man Geronimo ever feared. He played a pivotal role in this long war for the desert Southwest from its beginning...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Riding With Cochise brings the violent drama of the American Southwest to life through the eyes of the legendary Apache chieftain Cochise and three other tribal leaders, Geronimo, Victorio, and Mangas Coloradas. Relying largely on the oral histories toldby relatives of these great warriors as well as personal diaries of others who were involved, veteran author Steve Price takes the reader deep into the Cochise Stronghold, through Massacre Canyon,...
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