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The Sacketts volume 14
Language
English
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"Tell Sackett had fought his share of Indians and had managed to take something of value from his battles--respect for the Apaches as warriors. But that respect is lost when Apache braves kidnap Tell's nephew, forcing him to cross the border into the Sierra Madres to bring the boy back."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Civilization of the American Indian series volume 149
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
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2019 Tucson Weekly "40 Essential Arizona Books" pick
2014 One Book Yuma selection
2010 Best of the Best from the University Presses (ALA) selection
2010 Caroline Bancroft History Prize Finalist
2009 Southwest Book of the Year
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. The...
2014 One Book Yuma selection
2010 Best of the Best from the University Presses (ALA) selection
2010 Caroline Bancroft History Prize Finalist
2009 Southwest Book of the Year
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. The...
Author
Series
Civilization of the American Indian volume 142
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[1976]
Language
English
13) Geronimo
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
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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Series
Killstraight stories volume 5
Publisher
Five Star Publishing, a part of Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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,...
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