From Flesh and Blood to Whisper and Legend.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the Apache Kid was a name whispered in fear along the United States-Mexico border. Outlaw, warrior, and legend, he vanished in 1900 after a decade of bloodshed, accused of murders, raids, and kidnappings that spread his infamy across two countries. But as stories of his death circulate, the truth remains buried in the rugged mountains of northern Mexico.
As Mexico erupts into revolution in 1910, and Pancho Villa's war threatens to tear the country apart, Kid's legend grows. Rumors swirl of his secret rancho in Sonora, where he hides with his family, visiting his people in San Carlos Reservation under cover of night. Others claim he died of tuberculosis, his body discovered in a cave. The White Mountain Apache, who knew him best, believe he lives on, watching as his people disappeared from the Sierra Madre, swallowed by the encroaching world of ranchers, miners, and soldiers.
Award-winning author W. Michael Farmer's The Apache Kid: Vanished Outlaw follows the intertwined fates of Kid and those who seek to uncover his story. From hidden tribes to American invaders, from revolutionaries to fading cultures, this novel explores the shifting sands of identity, survival, and the final chapter of the untamed Southwest.
When legends fade and history is rewritten, can the truth ever be known? Or will the Apache Kid remain a shadow, lost to time?
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
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979-8-89299-176-6 (9798892991766)
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W. Michael Farmer combines fifteen-plus years of research into nineteenth-century Apache history and culture with Southwest-living experience to fill his stories with a genuine sense of time and place. A retired PhD physicist, his scientific research has included measurement of atmospheric aerosols with laser-based instruments. He has published a two-volume reference book on atmospheric effects on remote sensing as well as fiction in anthologies and award-winning essays. His novels have won numerous awards, including three Will Rogers Gold and five Silver Medallions, New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards for Literary, Adventure, Historical Fiction, a Non-Fiction New Mexico Book of the Year, and a Spur Finalist Award for Best First Novel. His book series includes The Life and Times of Yellow Boy, Mescalero Apache, and Legends of the Desert. His nonfiction books include Apacheria, True Stories of Apache Culture 1860-1920, and Geronimo, Prisoner of Lies. His most recent novels are the award-winning The Odyssey of Geronimo, Twenty-Three years a Prisoner of War, The Iliad of Geronimo, A Song of Blood and Fire, and Trini! Come! Geronimo's Captivity of Trinidad Verdin. The first book in the Chato Saga, Desperate Warrior: Days of War, Days of Peace, Chato's Chiricahua Apache Legacy Volume One, won the 2024 Will Rogers Medallion Award Silver Medal for Traditional Western Fiction.
