Author

Publication

1993 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

61,250 words, Guess

Page Count

245 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number93002847
  • Better World Books9780195083514
  • Open LibraryOL1395517M

Classifications

  • DDC973/.04972
  • DDCB
  • LCCE99.A6 G3242 1993
and 1 more
  • LCCE99.A6G3242 1993

Description

The surrender of the great Apache leader Geronimo to U.S Army Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood in August of 1886 brought to an end a struggle that had begun in the early years of the century, and had figured prominently in the western campaign of the Civil War. The words addressed by Gatewoodto Geronimo as they met along the banks of Mexico's Bavispe River echoed those spoken in many such a meeting between victorious American commander and vanquished Native American. "Accept these terms or fight it out to the bitter end," said Gatewood. The terms were forced relocation to Florida andthe ceding of the ancestral homeland of the Apaches to white settlers; the bitter end was, quite simply, annihilation....

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Other Editions

  • The Geronimo campaignOxford University Press1993-01-01

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