In this biography of Geronimo, learn how he got his name, some of the reasons American Indians fought against Mexicans and Americans, and the part Geronimo played in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

"Geronimo was a great leader and a wise man. In this book, readers will uncover his life story-from his struggles with the US government and settlers in Arizona to the eventual surrender that made him a prisoner of war for the rest of his life-and understand his profound effect on the Apache tribe. Though he later became famous and traveled the country, he was never allowed to return to his birthplace. Through easy-to-read text and fascinating pictures,...

A biography of Apache Indian leader Geronimo.

A biography of the Apache Indian chief who led one of the last great Indian uprisings in the nineteenth century.

Presents the testament of legendary Apache warrior Geronimo as dictated to native interpreter S. M. Barrett in 1905 and 1906; and includes Barrett's original commentary, and a historical introduction by Frederick Turner.

Geronimo crawled up the hill so carefully that no stalk of grass moved, and no bush quivered. A pair of crested quail, feeding on insects in the grass, merely glanced up when he passed and went on feeding. Geronimo reached the top of the hill and crouched down in the grass.Beyond were more hills, the near ones low, rocky, and given more to shrubs and grass than to trees. Geronimo's eyes strayed across the Arizona landscape to the east. There lay No-doyohn...

"After Victorio's death, the Southwest had simmered down. Without their chief, the Warm Springs Apaches abandoned the murderous campaign against the blancos and the Mexicans who had invaded their tribal lands, and serenity had returned to the arid territory. But bitter memories lingered. Lieutenant Ewing Mackay was glad of the respite. During his seven-year tour of duty in Arizona Territory he had come to love the desert's austere beauty, the stark...