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02689aam a2200349 i 4500 001 42A1DC70E62711EC988ED6D72DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220607010037 008 210816s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2021039503 020 $a 1432888064 020 $a 9781432888060 035 $a (OCoLC)1264175436 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Farmer, W. Michael, $d 1944- 245 14 $a The Iliad of Geronimo : $b a song of blood and fire : a novel / $c W. Michael Farmer. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a [Waterville] : $b Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2022. 300 $a 403 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Five Star frontier fiction 520 $a "The story of the last ten years of Geronimo's wars mirrors the rage, battles, and deception told in Homer's Iliad, the story of the ten-year Greek and Trojan War. The Iliad of Geronimo begins in 1877, ten years before Geronimo's surrender with him being hauled four hundred miles in chains to the San Carlos Reservation guardhouse, there to await hanging in Tucson. Almost miraculously, Geronimo escaped hanging and lived peacefully for a time on the San Carlos Reservation. Geronimo and his followers escaped reservations three times during the nearly ten years of Geronimo's Iliad. After leaving the reservations, the Apaches raided and made war from their great Troy-like fortress, the Sierra Madre Mountains in Mexico. Chiricahua Apache heroes, like their Greek and Trojan counterparts, were great warriors, their names filling the Americans and Mexicans with terror--Naiche, Loco, Chihuahua, Nana, Jelikinne, Ulzana, Kaytenne, Chato--and the most feared--Geronimo. The Iliad of Geronimo, like Homer's Iliad, is an epic story, told through Geronimo's eyes, of the ten years of blood and fire he wrought on his enemies when most of his people wanted peace with the Americans and the Mexicans. Only after General Miles offered terms that allowed Geronimo and his warriors to see their families was their war ended. The terms were like a Trojan horse, filled with lies instead of warriors, lies that once accepted allowed no escape for men who didn't suffer fools gladly and as warriors couldn't be broken"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20220311. 600 $a Geronimo, $d 1829-1909 $v Fiction. 650 $a Apache Indians $x Wars $v Fiction. 655 $a Biographical fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Novels. 830 $a Five Star frontier fiction. 941 $a 2 952 $l RFPC397 $d 20230325010634.0 952 $l WWPC305 $d 20220607013715.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=42A1DC70E62711EC988ED6D72DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search