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21) Judgment day
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A pioneer town and the son of its namesake fight for survival amidst draught, dust storms, and deadly attacks from Apaches in this Western adventure.
It began with a handful of bedraggled pioneer survivors. It took root because of the courage of one young man. In William W. Johnstone's new blockbuster Western series, a town called Fury rises up in the midst of a hostile Arizona Territory—and lives every day as if it were its last...
It began with a handful of bedraggled pioneer survivors. It took root because of the courage of one young man. In William W. Johnstone's new blockbuster Western series, a town called Fury rises up in the midst of a hostile Arizona Territory—and lives every day as if it were its last...
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"After visiting his late mother's people on the Mescalero reservation, Comanche tribal policeman Daniel Killstraight waits to catch a train home when local cowboys bring disturbing news: an Apache has brutally murdered a teenage girl in the railroad town of Deming and locals want to lynch him. Killstraight has no jurisdiction in this territory and he doesn't care much for Apaches. He knows nothing about Deming, the murdered girl, or the accused killer,...
23) Geronimo
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[2012]
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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...
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Civilization of the American Indian volume 142
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Ã1976
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Biography of Apache Indian leader Geronimo concentrating on his life after he surrendered to the Army on September 5, 1886.
26) Apache dawn
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2015.
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"When an Apache chief determines to wipe out the settlers in Eden Canyon, Jerd Galway is determined to save as many as he can even if most won't trust him because he's a fugitive and blood-brother to the Apache chief"--
28) Hombre
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Western melodrama in which stagecoach passengers at the mercy of a robber are helped by a despised half-caste.
29) Savage territory
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Matt Jensen the last mountain man volume 4
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In this adventure by the bestselling authors of Purgatory, duty to a fallen comrade may send an Old West vigilante to an early grave.
William W. Johnstone's Mountain Man saga catapulted him to the top ranks of Western writers. In the launch of a breathtaking new series, the adopted son of Smoke Jensen makes his way across a dangerous, shifting American frontier...Savage Territory
It was a duty to a dead man....
30) Apache
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[2015]
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600L
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Easy-to read text and oversized photographs introduce readers to the Apache and their traditions including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more.
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"Geronimo and General George Crook were born to destroy each other." "And they did - the perfect enemies, perfectly embodying the tragic strengths and weaknesses of their respective cultures. No confrontation more powerfully captures the relentless, irreconcilable struggle between Native Americans and whites than the Apache Wars - the final and longest running of the North American Indian wars. At the heart of that bitter and violent conflict lies...
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Red Ryan western volume 5
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[2022]
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Guarding five foolhardy passengers on the Gray Ghost stagecoach, which is rumored to be haunted, cursed or just plain unlucky, Red Ryan, with Apaches and a killer on his trail, finds his journey becoming something straight out of his worst nightmare.
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"When Chiricahua Apaches attack a stagecoach bound for Fort Hell, Yakima Henry and fellow scout Seth Barksdale rush to defend it ? only to discover that one of the fallen Apache is a blond-haired, blue-eyed white boy. This is shocking news to the fort's commanding officer, Colonel Ephraim Alexander. Years ago, his family was kidnapped during an Apache attack. If this white Apache warrior is his son, can his wife and daughter still be alive?"--Provided...
36) Apache
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[2001]
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The story of Massai, the last of the fierce Apache warriors, and his single-handed, bloody war against the entire U.S. Army. The former pacifist learns "might makes right" from the oppressive soldiers, and seeks to defend the rights of his tribe after the 1886 humiliating surrender by their chief Geronimo.
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In 1851, Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year-old pioneer traveling west toward Zion with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohaves, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own. She was fully assimilated and perfectly happy when, at nineteen,...
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©2000
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1200L
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"The surrender of Geronimo in 1886 did not mark the end of Apache resistance to white encroachment. Over the next four decades, rumors persisted about a band of "wild" Apaches in the Sierra Madre. Who were these reclusive Apaches? In 1930 anthropologist Grenville Goodwin headed south to find out. Accompanying him were guides who had often encountered the Apaches, and as Goodwin searched out abandoned campsites, the Apaches almost certainly were aware...
