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Pub. Date
[2014]
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"An overview of the inspiring history of Apache chief Geronimo, with a look at the timeless strategies we can learn from his life, from legendary football coach Mike Leach"--
Playing cowboys and Indians as a boy, legendary college football coach Mike Leach always chose to be the Indian - the underdog whose success turned on being a tough, resourceful, ingenious fighter. And the greatest Indian military leader of all was Geronimo, the Apache warrior...
44) Hondo
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Summary
Hondo Lane is a despatch rider for the cavalry who encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is safe because the Apaches, under their chief Vittorio, have always left them alone. Later Hondo has a run-in with Angie's good-for-nothing husband and is forced to kill him. Vittorio captures Hondo and to save his life, Angie tells the Apache chief that he is her husband. In...
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Series
Red Ryan western volume Book 5
Summary
"Riding shotgun, Red Ryan leads a doomed stagecoach of the damned on the longest, deadliest journey of his life ... 5 passengers. 400 miles. 1,000 ways to die. According to local legend, the stagecoach known as the Gray Ghost is either haunted, cursed, or just plain unlucky. Each of its last three drivers and three more riding shotgun came to a violent, bloody end. And now it's Red Ryan's turn to guard five foolhardy passengers on the stage's next-and...
47) Foxfire
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Summary
Amanda Lawrence, a young sheltered woman from New York, falls for Jonathan Dartland, a half-Apache mining engineer. Following her new husband to the grim western town of Lodestone, Arizona, Amanda soon feels lonely and forsaken. But when a map of a lost mine surfaces detailing the location of a cache of cursed Apache gold, Amanda and her husband become caught in a whirlwind of haunting legends and deadly realities.
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Pub. Date
©2000
Summary
"Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood of the Sixth United States Cavalry and Chiricahua leader Geronimo were the two pre-eminent warriors of the Apache Wars between 1878 and 1886. Gatewood became the army's premier "Apache man" as both a commander of Apache scouts and reservation administrator, but his equitable treatment of Indians aroused the enmity of civilian and military detractors, and the army shunned him. In the late 1870s Geronimo, a medicine man,...
49) Major Dundee
Pub. Date
[2005]
Summary
A Union major late in the Civil War takes it upon himself to punish a band of Apaches who murdered a ranch family and fled into Mexico. Being short of troops he uses Confederate prisoners, ex-slaves, and criminals to accomplish his goal.
Author
Formats
Summary
"Reece Canby, owner of the Diamond RC, spent years as a youngster on the nearby Mescalero Apache reservation. By treaty, Chief Antone's tribe has ownership of the Sentinel Basin. But Sax Starke and Chelso DeLacca of the Teepee spread want this graze. Their plan is to stir up trouble with the Mescaleros so that the government will intervene. Now two Mescaleros that Reece has known since childhood stand accused of rustling by two witnesses -- both employed...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Summary
"Solitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lost his wife, his family, even his country in the late 1870s when the Rio Grande shifted course, stranding the Mexican town of Olvido on the Texas side of the border. He’d made his brooding peace with retiring his gun and badge, hiding out on his ranch, and communing with horses and ghosts. But when a gruesome string of murders and kidnappings ravages the town, pushing its volatile mix...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Summary
"Killer of Witches is a powerful story; truth told with fiction that transports the reader to a different background, culture, history, time, and religion. It is the other side of Apache history lived by a people fighting the tsunami of Americans migrating west and the terrors of their supernatural insights. Five hundred Mescalero Apaches at General James H. Carlton's Bosque Redondo Apache-Navajo concentration camp near Fort Sumner, New Mexico, disappear...
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Deep in the untamed Southern Arizona Territory, the United States Army embarks on a final campaign to rid the area of the remaining Apache warriors and capture and kill their famed war chief Geronimo. Legendary for their relentless battle tactics and astounding survival skills, the Apache make a fearsome enemy, able to cut down man, woman, and child in silence, and transverse undetected throughout the rocky terrain. General Nelson A. Miles is determined...
57) Apache
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile Measure
820L
Summary
"Introduces young readers to the Apache people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Apache are keeping their culture alive today"--OCLC.
58) The iron wagon
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Series
Return of the stranger volume 3
Summary
Five ruthless outlaws escape Yuma Prison but are soon captured, and Paul must transport them back to Arizona in an iron wagon. During the hazardous journey, Paul encounters Lisa Martin, whose parents were murdered by renegade Indians. The lovely young woman desperately needs his help and Paul is just the deputy to deliver Lisa to her destination. Could she be the answer to his prayers for a wife?
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Predawn, April 30, 1871, a party of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O'odham Indians gathered outside an Apache camp in the Arizona borderlands. At first light they struck, murdering nearly 150 Apaches, mostly women and children, in their sleep. In its day, the atrocity, known as the Camp Grant Massacre, generated unparalleled national attention--federal investigations, heated debate in the press, and a tense criminal trial. This was the era of the...
60) Stagecoach
Pub. Date
c2006
Summary
"A steadfast driver, determined to get his passengers where they need to go, leads his stagecoach through dangerous Apache territory, despite warnings from the Cavalry. The intrepid passengers include a pregnant woman resolved to find her husband before she gives birth, a drunken dentist, a bank manager with a case of stolen money, a gambler, a liquor salesman, and the infamous Ringo Kid among others. As the journey becomes more and more treacherous,...