The Story of Geronimo

He was the most famous Native American who ever lived. A warrior whose name alone made settlers in Arizona and New Mexico fear for their lives. Yet Geronimo's story begins not with war, but with a twelve-year-old boy stealing a war horse to prove himself to a neighboring chief. Jim Kjelgaard chronicles the remarkable life of the Apache leader who became the last great resistance against American expansion in the Southwest. From Geronimo's early years learning the ways of his people, through decades of battling the U.S. Army, to his capture and the slow death of reservation life, this is both an adventure story and an elegy for a vanishing world. The book captures a fierce intelligence, a warrior's pride, and the tragedy of a man who refused to surrender even when surrender was all that remained.