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(0)W. Michael Farmer
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Language
English
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"Yellow Boy, Killer of Witches, returns wounded from a cat-and-mouse chase and rifle duel with Blood of the Devil, the giant Mexican-Comanche witch whose head is painted like a skull, his body covered with black spiral and flame tattoos. The witch, also wounded, disappears into the dry plains across the Rio Grande, knowing the Apache he left bleeding in the sand will one day reappear. With the Army occupation ended Yellow Boy, Juanita, their new baby...
Author
Publication 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
Language
English
Description
"The Last Warrior, The Life and Times of Yellow Boy, Mescalero Apache, Book 3, continues the powerful story of the Mescalero Apaches fighting for tribal survival against determined ignorance from autocratic government overseers, countering attacks from those misusing their supernatural powers, and choosing sides in White Eye conflicts. Yellow Boy, the last warrior, stands in the turmoil helping to save his tribal culture, destroying a witch seeking...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
2019.
Physical Desc
589 pages (large print) : maps ; 23 cm.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
2018.
Physical Desc
461 pages (large print) : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On the first of February, 1896, Albert Fountain, prominent attorney, legislator, and tough leader of Indian and outlaw fighting militia, despite threats on his life and his eight year-old son Henry being with him, drove his wagon across the wild and lonely Tularosa basin of New Mexico. They were returning home after Albert's two-week meeting with a grand jury to obtain indictments of ranchers for cattle theft.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
2021.
Physical Desc
561 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Odyssey of Geronimo, based on history and Apache culture, but told through his eyes using the truth from fiction, is a revealing epic of his strengths, weaknesses, and character. As a prisoner of war twenty-three years, Geronimo escaped being hanged by civil authorities in Arizona, rose to become a national "superstar," and became an astute businessman. During his captivity, Geronimo fathered two children, lost three wives, and married two more....
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
519 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the untamed pages of history, the saga of Pedes-klinje--known to the Mexicans as the relentless Chato--blazes a trail through the blood-soaked annals of the Apache wars. From 1877, his name was etched in the fiery heart of battle--a figure brimming with ferocity, hunger for power, and a disdain for peace with the white invaders. As the trusted lieutenant of the infamous Chircauhua chief Geronimo, Chato's days are painted in the hues of raid and...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
2022.
Physical Desc
601 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the last ten years of Geronimos wars mirrors the rage, battles, and deception told in Homers Iliad, the story of the ten-year Greek and Trojan War. The Iliad of Geronimo begins in 1877, ten years before Geronimos 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 San...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
343 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
2020.
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"A long simmering Tularosa basin range war between big cattle companies and small operators boiled over when the famous attorney for the Southeastern New Mexico Livestock Association, Albert Fountain, and his eight-year-old son Henry, disappeared 1 February 1896 and were never found again. Republicans immediately assumed Oliver Lee, small rancher, fast gun, and a leading Democrat, murdered the Fountains. Three years later Lee and friend James Gililland...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
2019.
Physical Desc
619 pages (large print) : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Knight of the Tiger is gripping historical fiction taken from stories of those who lived the times to reveal a portrait of betrayal and justice seen through the eyes of betrayed and betrayer in the 1915/1916 civil war between Pancho Villa and Venustiano Carranza for control of Mexico. Henry Fountain, not long out of medical school, helps Pancho Villa, a good friend from his youth, only to escape execution as Villa descends into darkness raging against...
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Features seventeen new stories for historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of freedom and individualism in the evolving 19th century American frontier. They are organized by time frame for a panoramic view of pioneers who faced life-changing challenges in settings that are in stark contrast to civilized society. Ranging from high-action traditional Westerns to introspective historical dramas set in the American West.
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
2020.
Physical Desc
529 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Spoilt Quilt and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features sixteen brand-new stories that will delight historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of freedom and individualism in the evolving American frontier through the early 1900s and feature pioneering women of the West who face life-changing challenges in settings that are in stark contrast to civilized society. Ranging from high-action traditional Westerns to...