Washoe County Library System

Meet the Apache Indians and learn about their establishment in America, their traditions and their values.

A relentless foe tracks Army scout Gregory Peck as he attempts to lead a woman once held captive by Apaches to safety.

The white man had burned their land, raped their women, and slaughtered their children. He had made them a nation of slaves, and those he could not enslave, he promised to destroy. The Apache had one hope: vengeance. Out of the scattered remnants of the Apache tribes rose a man whose cunning, ferocity, and genuis for warfare would make him their leader in a last tragic struggle for survival. The Apache gave him their arms, their strength, and their...

"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,...

A Mexican War profiteer wants to set up a Santa Calina ranch of wild mustangs and cattle on eighteen thousand acres in South Texas but must battle border banditos, Apaches, slave traders, and a vengeful Mexican heiress.

Oak Flat tells the story of a race-against-time struggle for a swath of American land, which pits one of the poorest communities in the United States against the federal government and two of the world's largest mining conglomerates. The book follows the fortunes of two families with profound connections to the contested site: the Nosies, an Apache family whose teenage daughter is an activist and leader in the Oak Flat fight, and the Gorhams, a mining...

Fort Apache (1948, B&W, 120 min.): A calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush. She wore a yellow ribbon (1949, color, 103 min.): The story of a U.S. Calvary captain's last days in service on the western frontier in 1876.