Geronimo and the End of the Apache Wars

Geronimo and the End of the Apache Wars

Author: Charles Leland Sonnichsen

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780803291980

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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.


The Mount Vernon Cookbook

The Mount Vernon Cookbook

Author: Mount Vernon Ladies Association

Publisher: Wimmer Cookbooks

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780931917134

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A year-round gift of 400 tested recipes introducing 18th-century lifestyles and glimpses into the way George Washington lived and entertained. Benefits historical preservation.


Lamar County Kin

Lamar County Kin

Author: Barbara Woolbright Carruth

Publisher:

Published: 2017-11-08

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9781979047395

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A collection of stories, written or collected by Barb Carruth of the people of Lamar County, Alabama. Many are untold, interesting and informative to read.Note from Barb: "It is my intent for this book to serve as an easy reference in the reader's search of Lamar County people. I focus on many who have been forgotten, bringing their stories to life again. I am not a writer but a COLLECTOR of local historical information which may help you discover your family history or solve your family mystery. Barb is well known as a researcher of the early history of Lamar County Alabama as well as Fayette, Marion, Pickens, and Winston counties in Alabama and Monroe County, Mississippi for over twenty years.


Geronimo

Geronimo

Author: W. Michael Farmer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-09-24

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1493042017

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When Geronimo and his warriors surrendered to the US Army, General Miles made a number of promises for the surrender terms that were in fact false. Geronimo: Prisoner of Lies provides insights into how Chiricahua prisoners of war lived while held in captivity by the United States Army in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as seen through the eyes of their war leader Geronimo. The indignities and lies they suffered, and how they maintained their tribal culture in the face of great pressure to change or vanish entirely, are brought to life and provided new context through this book.


Holy Bible (NIV)

Holy Bible (NIV)

Author: Various Authors,

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2008-09-02

Total Pages: 6793

ISBN-13: 0310294142

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The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.


Mount Vernon Love Story

Mount Vernon Love Story

Author: Mary Higgins Clark

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-09-04

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1471103617

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Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, after the motto of George Washington's mother. Published in 1969, the book was more recently discovered by a Washington family descendant and reissued as Mount Vernon Love Story. Dispelling the widespread belief that although George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, he reserved his true love for Sally Carey Fairfax, his best friend's wife, Mary Higgins Clark describes the Washington marriage as one full of tenderness and passion, as a bond between two people who shared their lives -- even the bitter hardship of a winter in Valley Forge -- in every way. In this author's skilled hands, the history, the love, and the man come fully and dramatically alive.


They Say the Wind Is Red

They Say the Wind Is Red

Author: Jacqueline Matte

Publisher: NewSouth Books

Published: 2002-09-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1603062475

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They Say the Wind Is Red is the moving story of the Choctaw Indians who managed to stay behind when their tribe was relocated in the 1830s. Throughout the 1800s and 1900s, they had to resist the efforts of unscrupulous government agents to steal their land and resources. But they always maintained their Indian communities—even when government census takers listed them as black or mulatto, if they listed them at all. The detailed saga of the Southwest Alabama Choctaw Indians, They Say the Wind Is Red chronicles a history of pride, endurance, and persistence, in the face of the abhorrent conditions imposed upon the Choctaw by the U.S. government.