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I fought with Geronimo / by Jason Betzinez with Wilbur Sturtevant Nye ; drawings by J. Franklin Whitman, Jr.

Van Pelt Library E83.88 .B48 1987
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Author/Creator:
Contributor:
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • Personal narratives.
  • Biographies.
  • Autobiographies.
Physical Description:
214 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Place of Publication:
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1987.
Summary:
The cousin and lifelong associate of Geronimo, Jason Betzinez relives his years on the warpath with the Apache chief. He participates in Geronimo's eventual surrender to the U.S. Army, goes to Florida as a prisoner of war, attends the Carlisle Indian school in Pennsylvania, and in 1900 joins his people at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where they had been moved by the government six years earlier. Trained as a blacksmith, he describes daily on the reservation until the resettlement of many Apaches in Arizona.
Notes:
  • Reprint. Originally published: Harrisburg, Pa. : Stackpole, 1959.
  • Includes index.
ISBN:
  • 0803260865
  • 0803212046
OCLC:
15790455

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