Renowned for ferocity in battle, legendary for an uncanny ability to elude capture, feared for the violence of his vengeful raids, the Apache fighter Geronimo captured the public imagination in his own time and remains a mythic figure today. This thoroughly researched biography by a renowned historian of the American West strips away the myths and rumors that have long obscured the real Geronimo and presents an authentic portrait of a man with unique...

Memoir in which the author, cousin and lifelong associate of Geronimo, recalls his years on the warpath with the Apache chief, his time as a prisoner of war in Florida, his education at the Carlisle Indian School, and his return to the reservation.

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

Biography of Cochise, the most resourceful and most feared Apache chief.

"When the Apache wars ended in the late nineteenth century, a harsh and harrowing time began for the Western Apache people. Living under the authority of nervous Indian agents, pitiless government-school officials, and menacing mounted police, they knew that resistance to American authority would be foolish. But some Apache families did resist in the most basic way they could: they resolved to endure." "Although Apache history has inspired numerous...