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Author:

Shorto, Russell.

Title:

Geronimo and the struggle for Apache freedom / written by Russell Shorto ; introduction by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. ; illustrated by L.L. Cundiff.

Publisher:

Silver Burdett,

Copyright Date:

c1989

Description:

131 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Geronimo,--1829-1909--Juvenile literature.
Apache Indians--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Apache Indians--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Geronimo,--1829-1909.
Apache Indians--Biography.
Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Biography.
Geronimo,--1829-1909.
Apache Indians--Biography.
Indians of North America--Southwestern States.

Other Authors:

Cundiff, L. L., ill.

Notes:

Bibliography: p. [130]-131.

Contents:

The Indian exhibit -- An Apache child -- An Apache warrior -- Goyathlay's great sadness -- Becoming Geronimo -- The Americans arrive -- A peace mission fails -- The Apaches attack -- The greatest wrong ever done to the Indians -- Apache birth and death -- Geronimo the rebel -- "Geronimo" enters the vocabulary -- Last try for freedom -- Geronimo on display.

Summary:

Recounts the life story of the Apache chief who led one of the last great Indian uprisings.

Series:

Alvin Josephy's biography series of American Indians

Indexed by:

Wilson's Children
School Library Journal
Booklist

ISBN:

9780382097607 (pbk.) :
0382097602 (pbk.) :
9780382095719 (lib. bdg.) :
0382095715 (lib. bdg.) :

LCCN:

88033687

Locations:

VHPA334 -- Hawkeye Public Library (Hawkeye)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

30SX663 -- Osage High School (Osage)

BZPC851 -- Slater Public Library (Slater)