Geronimo
Twenty-Three Years as a Prisoner of War
Published on 24. September 2019
232 pages
978-1-4930-4201-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
41 BW Photos
File size
5,98 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4930-4201-2 (9781493042012)
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Person
W. Michael Farmer combines more than ten 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, he has also written award-winning essays and short stories for anthologies. His first novel, Hombrecito's War, won a Western Writers of America Spur Finalist Award for Best First Novel in 2006 and was a New Mexico Book Award Finalist for Historical Fiction in 2007. His other novels include: Hombrecito's Search; Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright: The Betrayals of Pancho Villa; Conspiracy: The Trial of Oliver Lee and James Gililland; Killer of Witches: The Life and Times of Yellow Boy, Mescalero Apache, Book 1;and Blood of the Devil: The Life and Times of Yellow Boy, Mescalero Apache, Book 2.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Prologue
- Part I: Surrender
- Geronimo's Relationship with Naiche
- Geronimo's Last Warriors
- Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood, the Bluecoat Geronimo Trusted
- The Decision to Surrender
- The Apache Prisoner of War Train Stops in San Antonio
- The Last Apaches to Surrender in 1886
- Part II: Apache Prisoners of War in Florida and Carlisle, Pennsylvania
- Life at Fort Marion, Saint Augustine, Florida
- First Days of Apache Children at Carlisle
- Student Life at Carlisle
- Apache Prisoner of War Life at Fort Pickens, Pensacola, Florida
- Part III: Prisoners at Mount Vernon Barracks, Alabama
- Apache Prisoner of War Life at Mount Vernon Barracks
- Geronimo's Wives
- Geronimo, Mount Vernon Barracks Schoolmaster
- General Crook's 1890 Mount Vernon Barracks Visit
- Apache Prisoners of War Become an Army Unit
- Geronimo Counsels Corporal Fun and His Wife
- The Apaches March to Mobile and Back
- George Wratten, Friend of the Chiricahuas
- Geronimo Tries to Fire George Wratten
- Chiricahua Prisoners Make Their Case for a Move, August 29, 1894
- Part IV: Prisoners of War at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
- The Chiricahua Prisoners of War Go to Fort Sill, Oklahoma
- Apache Prisoner of War Life at Fort Sill
- Geronimo on the Army Payroll
- Eldridge Ayer Burbank Paints Geronimo
- The Chiricahua Breakout Panic at Fort Sill
- Geronimo Escapes!
- Geronimo, Superstar
- Geronimo at the Saint Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition
- Geronimo's Contemporaries: The Great Chiefs
- Geronimo's Children
- Eva Geronimo
- Robert, the Son Geronimo Didn't Know He Had
- Geronimo's Power
- Geronimo Looks For the Jesus Road
- Geronimo Dictates His Autobiography
- Geronimo the Witch
- Geronimo's Last Two Wives, Sousche and Sunsetso
- Geronimo Rides the Ghost Pony to the Happy Place
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Additional Reading and Information Resources
- Index
- About the Author
