Frank Carlson Library

Describes the history, customs, religion, government, homes, and day-to-day life of the Apache people of the Southwest.

The year is 1872. The place, the Apache nations, a region torn apart by decades of war. The people, like Goyahkla, lose his family and everything he loves. After having a vision, the young Goyahkla approaches the Apache leader Cochise, and the entire Apache nation, to lead an attack against the Mexican village of Azripe. It is this wild display of courage that transforms the young brave Goyakhla into the Native American hero Geronimo. But the war...

A biography of Geronimo, chief of the southern Chiricahua band of Apache Indians, who rose to leadership through the ranks of his tribe and plundered the Arizona countryside for many years before accepting the white man's treaty.

"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...

Discusses the traditional daily life of the Apaches and Navajos.

Examines the life of the Apache chief Geronimo, who led one of the last Indian uprisings.