Geronimo and the End of the Apache Wars

SONNICHSEN, C.L., edited by

ISBN 10: 0803291981 / ISBN 13: 9780803291980

Published by University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1990

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2nd paperback printing. 136pp. Trade paperback. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Near fine with some edge wear. Seller Inventory # 220732

Bibliographic Details

Title: Geronimo and the End of the Apache Wars

Publisher: University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska

Publication Date: 1990

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis:

After prolonged resistance against tremendous odds, Geronimo, the Apache shaman and war leader, and Naiche, the hereditary Chiricahua chief, surrendered to General Nelson A. Miles near the Mexican border on September 4, 1886. It was the beginning of a new day for white settlers in the Southwest and of bitter exile for the Indians.

In Geronimo and the End of the Apache Wars Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood, an emissary of General Miles, describes in vivid circumstantial detail his role in the final capture of Geronimo at Skeleton Canyon. Gatewood offers many intimate glimpses of the Apache chief in an important account published for the first time in this collection. Another first-person narration is by Samuel E. Kenoi, who was ten years old when Geronimo went on his last warpath. A Chiricahua Apache, Kenoi recalls the removal of his people to Florida after the surrender. In other colorful chapters Edwin R. Sweeney writes about the 1851 raid of the Mexican army that killed Geronmio's mother, wife, and children; and Albert E. Wratten relates the life of his father, George Wratten, a government scout, superintendent on three reservations, and defender of the rights of the Apaches.

About the Author:

The editor, C.L. Sonnichesen, introduces the collection with a look at the changing public image of Geronimo. Sonnichesen is a well-known historian of the American Southwest.