Gatewood and Geronimo (Paperback, 1st ed)

The two pre-eminent warriors of the Apache Wars between 1878 and 1886, Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood of the Sixth United States Cavalry and Chiricahua leader Geronimo, respected one another in peace and feared one another in war. Within two years of his posting to Arizona in 1878, Gatewood became the armys premier Apache man as both a commander of Apache scouts and a 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, emerged as a brilliant Chiricahua leader and fiercely resisted his peoples incarceration on inhospitable federal reservations. His fight for freedom, often bloody, in New Mexico, Arizona, and Mexico triggered the deployment of hundreds of United States and Mexican troops and Apache Scouts to hunt him and his people. In the end, the United States Army recalled Gatewood to Apache service, ordering him into the Sierra Madre of northern Mexico to locate Geronimo and negotiate his bands surrender. Showing the depravity and desperation of the Apache wars, Louis Kraft dramatically recreates Gatewoods final mission and poignantly recalls the United States governments betrayal of the Chiricahuas, Geronimo, and Gatewood at the campaigns end.

General

Imprint:	University of New Mexico Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2000
First published:	June 2000
Authors:	Louis Kraft
Dimensions:	157 x 235 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	290
Edition:	1st ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8263-2130-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Biography > Historical, political & military Promotions
LSN:	0-8263-2130-5
Barcode:	9780826321305

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