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One of the pictures of Geronimo with two of his sons standing alongside was made at Geronimo's request. Fly's images are the only existing photographs of Geronimo's surrender. [ 45 ] His photos of Geronimo and the other free Apaches, taken on March 25 and 26, are the only known photographs taken of an American Indian while still at war with the ...
Geronimo Campaign, between May 1885 and September 1886, was the last large-scale military operation of the Apache wars.It took more than 5,000 U.S. Army Cavalry soldiers, led by the two experienced Army generals, in order to subdue no more than 70 (only 38 by the end of the campaign in northern Mexico) Chiricahua Apache who fled the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation and raided parts of the ...
When Geronimo rode / Author: Hooker, Forrestine C. (Forrestine Cooper), 1867-1932: Software used: Internet Archive: Conversion program: Recoded by LuraDocument PDF v2.68: Encrypted: no: Page size: 541 x 902 pts; 538 x 864 pts; 499 x 844 pts; 545 x 897 pts; Version of PDF format: 1.5
There’s also a legend that Geronimo himself came up with the battle cry, yelling his own name as he leapt down a nearly vertical cliff on horseback to escape American troops at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Rediscovering America: John Muir in His Time and Ours (1985) is a biography of Scottish-born naturalist John Muir [8] [9] which the Journal of American History called "excellent and insightful" [10] and Environmental History Review likewise called "excellent," noting that Turner had done research in the papers of Muir newly available at the ...
Schott wrote that although Carter is insightful, his desire to cover history makes the novel suffer when it "trails off into lecture". [4] Kirkus Reviews wrote that Geronimo's spiritual visions are the book's backbone and called the novel "less than totally enthralling or convincing but vivid, richly colored, and often fiercely effective". [1]
Gatewood & Geronimo. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-2130-5. Mazzanovich, Anton (1926). Trailing Geronimo: Some hitherto unrecorded incidents bearing upon the outbreak of the White mountain Apaches and Geronimo's band in Arizona and New Mexico. Gem Publishing Co. Roberts, David (1994).
One of the pictures of Geronimo with two of his sons standing alongside was made at Geronimo's request. Fly's images are the only existing photographs of Geronimo's surrender. [3] He coolly posed his subjects, asking them to move and turn their heads and faces, to improve his composition.