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Title: Once They Moved Like The Wind : Cochise, Geronimo, And The Apache Wars by David Roberts ISBN: 0-671-88556-1 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 19 July, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Phenomenal Read
Comment: This book affected me deeply. David Roberts wrote one incredible work here.
He was extremley precise and his description of the Apache way of life was excellent. A very good read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Apache History
Comment: I was given this book as a gift and I found it to be one of the best books that I have read regarding the Apaches. It was also very interesting to read. I have been reading books about Geronimo since about 1955 and this made me interested in finding out more about Victorio and Mangas Coloradas.
Rating: 5
Summary: Dirty Wars and Quirky Personalities
Comment: A fascinating, balanced, and extraordinarily detailed account of the brutal conquest of a proud warrior tribe, Once They Moved Like the Wind provides rare insights into the Southwest's most violent era.
Author Roberts recreates the "profound distrust" and layers of "cultural misunderstanding" that lead to the intense racial hatred between the Apaches, the Mexicans, and American settlers. Roberts' powerful narrative doesn't idealize the sometimes brutal Apache traditions (cutting off a wife's nose if she was suspected of adultery, etc). Yet, it seems to me, that the real villains clearly remain the Mexican troops who purchased Indian scalps and casually murdered Apaches for fun and profit. The American settlers, who seem to be hysterical, are likewise committed to Manifest Destiny and seizing the Apaches' traditional lands. The federal government and U.S. Cavalry, to my surprise, played the role of both hunting Apaches and protecting them from the local settler population.
This book details some real quirky personalities from General Cook to Geromino and documents a few forgotten dirty wars. (Cochise still comes across a great chief who almost forced the federal government to abandon New Mexico and Arizona to the Apache during the Civil War.)
An almost perfect gift for history teachers, relatives living in the Southwest, or addicts of 19th Century American history. Don't be surprised if a clever travel agent uses this book for organizing tours in Arizona and New Mexico one day!!!
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Title: In the Days of Victorio; Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache by Eve Ball, James Kaywaykla ISBN: 0816504016 Publisher: University of Arizona Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1970 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Cochise: Chiricahua Apache Chief (The Civilization of the American Indian, Vol. 204) by Edwin R. Sweeney ISBN: 080612606X Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Truth About Geronimo by Britton Davis ISBN: 0803258402 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1976 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Geronimo: His Own Story by Geronimo, Frederick Turner, S. M. Barrett, Frederick W. Turner ISBN: 0452011558 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Indeh: An Apache Odyssey by Eve Ball, Nora Henn, Lynda A. Sanchez ISBN: 0806121653 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1988 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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