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1) The Apache
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Presents a brief introduction to the Apache Indians, including why the bison was an important creature to some of the Apache groups, their homes, food, and clothing.
3) Canyons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.
4) The Apache
Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
Describes the history, customs, religion, government, homes, and day-to-day life of the Apache people of the Southwest.
5) Geronimo
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Geronimo was a great leader and a wise man. In this book, readers will uncover his life story-from his struggles with the US government and settlers in Arizona to the eventual surrender that made him a prisoner of war for the rest of his life-and understand his profound effect on the Apache tribe. Though he later became famous and traveled the country, he was never allowed to return to his birthplace. Through easy-to-read text and fascinating pictures,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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...
7) The Apache
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Reece Canby, owner of the Diamond RC, spent years as a youngster on the nearby Mescalero Apache reservation. By treaty Chief Antone's Mescalero tribe owns the Sentinel Basin. Now this grazing land is desired by Sax Starke and Chelso DeLacca of the Teepee spread in order for them to expand their cattle herd. The first step in their plan is to stir up trouble with the Mescaleros so that the federal government will have to intervene. Dobe and Ponco,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Based on an historical event, Trinidad Verdín's story reveals the courage, suffering, and lessons a twelve-year-old girl learns about Apaches and herself during her captivity with the Naiche-Geronimo band hiding, fighting, and raiding in northern Sonora. After breaking their surrender agreement with General George Crook in late March 1886, forty Apaches (eighteen men, fourteen women, and six children) led by Geronimo established a camp at the top...
Author
Series
Legends of the desert volume 2
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Pancho Villa befriends Henry Fountain, a bandit betrays him, Apache Kid challenges him, and a wealthy hacendado, and Apache Elias try to kill him. Riveting historical fiction that reveals the hidden world of the Sierra Madre Apaches. Knight's Odyssey is a revenant story of survival, courage, love, and debts paid and forgiven"--
Author
Publisher
Five Star, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Killer of Witches is a powerful story; truth told with fiction that transports the reader to a different background, culture, history, time, and religion. It is the other side of Apache history lived by a people fighting the tsunami of Americans migrating west and the terrors of their supernatural insights. Five hundred Mescalero Apaches at General James H. Carlton's Bosque Redondo Apache-Navajo concentration camp near Fort Sumner, New Mexico, disappear...
Author
Series
Blood bond series volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves, blood brothers through a Cheyenne ritual, travel deep into Apache territory where they fight off gun runners, white slavers, and warring Apache tribes.
14) Riding shotgun
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Red Ryan must protect the passengers, including an army major's beautiful but stubborn wife, on a stage bound from Fort Concho, Texas, to Fort Bliss, as they face bloodthirsty Apaches who are on the warpath.
15) Damnation Road
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the last chance for Jacob Gamble, Rough Rider, outlaw and man of a few principles. Nearing 50 and flat broke, Jacob bends his own rule about robbing trains. But by the time he reaches the payroll safe on a Rock Island train, he finds another thief there first with a bullet in his head. Jacob is caught holding the bag - and turned into hero. A broke hero. Shackled by unwanted fame, running from a life gone wrong, and raising the suspicions of...
16) Dead river
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Apache renegade Bloody Hand plays a role in each of the Jackals' lives. To bounty hunter Jed Breen, he is man with a price on his head. To retired cavalry sergeant Sean Keegan, he is a cellmate after a drunken brawl. And to former Texas Ranger Matt McCulloch, he is the key to a mystery that has long haunted him. When McCulloch breaks Bloody Hand out of jail, his fellow Jackals follow them into Mexico. Now, all four are wanted men. The U.S. Army and...
Author
Series
Eagles series volume 10
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Falcon MacCallister couldn't duck his father's legacy as a shootist in the Wild West - and he's never tried to. A man who lives between two worlds, Falcon has a reputation of his own - and it's about to plunge him into a different kind of war. On a stagecoach in southern Arizona, Falcon is ambushed
19) Hondo
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
There was no softness in Hondo Lane; he was a man not soon forgotten by those he encountered on the danger trail.
20) High lonesome
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Determined to settle an old score and break into the seemingly impenetrable Obaro bank, Considine finds himself sidetracked when he joins an old man and his daughter in a last stand against a band of Apache warriors.
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