The Apaches of the Southwest

AMONG THE APACHES
by Frederick Schwatka. B&W wood engravings & photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 1974 Filter Press (CO) booklet/pamphlet. Content: Originally published as an article in Century Magazine in 1887, the information came from Schwatka's visiting and living with a band of Apaches in 1871 "after their luck had run out." Compelling first-hand history and sociology. [4 copies available]
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APACHE WARS: An Illustrated Battle History
by E. Lisle Reedstrom. Color drawings by the Author plus B&W maps and era photos. Condition: UNREAD 1990 Sterling large hardcover (coffee-table-size large) & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Light edge wear to DJ edges. Content: The Apache people deserve to be remembered for much more than their renegades, but public interest in their warlike days remains high. Reedstrom is a historian and noted illustrator of Western and cavalry themes, and this book reflects his military interest. The various campaigns and forays throughout Arizona Territory and northern Mexico are covered in vigorous detail. Numerous period photographs, particularly of a subjugated Geronimo, are both arresting and poignant. The author's own detailed color drawings of U.S. army uniforms and Indian dress make the book a useful reference source as well as a delight to the military buff. Military Book Club selection. The Apache were cunning guerilla fighters and among the toughest of the Indian warriors. This saga by Western artist and historian Lisle Reedstrom includes the religious traditions of the Apaches, their costumes and customs, weapons used by both the Apaches and the US Cavalry who pursued and finally defeated them. A special feature of the book is the illustrations, from the 16 pages of colour paintings by the author, to dozens of close-up photographs of Apache warriors and chiefs alongside US soldiers and generals who tried to destroy them. [1 copy available]
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ENJU: The Life and Struggle of An Apache Chief From the Little Running Water
by Sinclair Browning. Intro by the great Morris K. Udall. Wonderful B&W era photos. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1982 Northland Trade Paperback, first edition. Tanning to part of the front cover with an unfortunate tag removal mark top front cover. Interior clean & tight. No tanning to interior pages. Content: This is the story of Eskiminzin (Enju), peaceful chief of the Aravaipa Apache and contemporary of Geronimo, who, along with his people, were betrayed in the infamous Camp Grant massacre of 1871. Eskiminzin later, with John Clum, established a model community of trust and self-determination on Arizona's San Carlos reservation. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE FOX AND THE WHIRLWIND: General George Crook and Geronimo (A Paired Biography)
by Peter Aleshire. B&W era photos throughout. Condition: UNREAD 2000 John Wiley & Sons hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Two small remainder dots on fore edges. Content: If many Americans know the celebrated warrior and shaman Geronimo, far fewer are familiar with his opposite number and skilled pursuer, the Indian fighter George Crook, whose respect for Apache culture helped him to devise a style of campaigning that effectively subdued Indian resistance. Aleshire brings alive both men and the societies they represented in this provocative account of conflict and conquest. Alternating chapters between his two protagonists, each combatant represented by a distinctive narrative voice, Aleshire offers a refreshing approach to understanding the Apache wars, allowing readers to grasp the conflict from multiple perspectives. [1 copy available]
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GERONIMO (War Chiefs series)
by Bill Dugan. Cover art by Jim Carson. Condition: NEW 1991 Harper Western paperback. No edition given. Content: Biographical novel which claims to be the basis for the movie "Geronimo." Geronimo knew how many white men wanted all Apaches--men, women, and children--dead. There was only one way to make sure that it didn't happen, and that was to strike first and to keep on striking until all the White Eyes were dead or had run for their lives. The mountains and deserts belonged to his people. The Mexicans had not been able to take them away, and the Americans were going to fall just as hard. That was why he had decided to leave the reservation. Now that he was out, he intended to stay out, until he had won or until he could breathe no more. [1 copy available]
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GERONIMO: The Man, His Time, His Place (Volume 142 in "The Civilization of the American Indian Series")
Winner SLA Book Award, Western Heritage WRangler Award for Nonfiction
by Angie Debo. B&W era photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD c. 1991-3 University of Oklahoma Press large Trade Paperback (480 pages) 7th printing. Lilght edge wear. Bookstore embossed stamp title page. Content: Reviewer: "This biography truly reveals the man behind the myth. Geronimo has had a reputation as either a bloodthirsty, pitiless scalp hunter (the conservative view), or as a divinely-guided leader trying desperately to save his people from destruction (the romantic view). Both of these are partially correct, but neither gives any indication of Geronimo as a human being, and that's what Debo does ably in this book. Debo compiles all the information available to give an impressively detailed portrait of the man's life, and uncovers many aspects of his personality, both good and bad. So we get the predicted praise for his bravery and honesty; but the author is not afraid to criticize his ill temper, vindictiveness, and lack of eloquence. While the focus remains on Geronimo himself, this book also serves as an informative history of the final days of Apache independence. Many interesting characters are covered in a good amount of detail when Geronimo is absent from the narrative, like Victorio, Loco, Chihuahua, Kaywaykla, Naiche (my personal favorite) and even the white generals Crook and Howard. There is ample coverage of the tribe's post-glory days when they were imprisoned on various disagreeable reservations, and the depressing consequences of the loss of their culture and the deaths of many tribe members from disease." [1 copy available]
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GERONIMO'S STORY OF HIS LIFE (The West As It Was series)
taken down & edited by S. M. Barrett. B&W era photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1994 National Historical Society hardcover (no DJ issued). Facsimilie of the 1906 edition. Content: Reviewer: As the American Indian did not have a written language (excepting the Cherokee, late in their history) it is nigh on impossible to observe the situation between the White man and the Indian from the Indian's perspective. Thus it is almost like manna from heaven that one prescient being, in the form of S.M. Barrett, prevailed upon Geronimo to recount anything at all about his life story. This book is disappointingly short because Barrett approached Geronimo toward the end of his life, and because the Indian chief deigned to tell his story on his own terms, in his own way, and only once each time that he began to speak. Still, what little information Geronimo was willing to impart is vital and spell-binding and utterly fascinating. Interspersed amongst Geronimo's bits and snippets of incidents in his life and descriptions of Apache cosmography and social structure is background information from the author and editor which help to place the story in the context of the White man's historical account of the Apache wars. Obviously, such a short and unstructured narrative is wholly inadequate to illuminate a great man's life, but it still allows one to begin to form an opinion about a man who has by now become a legendary chapter in the story of the conquest of the American West. An especially nice aspect of this book is the dozen or so photographs of Geronimo and members of his extended family. [1 copy available]
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KIOWA, APACHE & COMANCHE MILITARY SOCIETIES: Enduring Veterans, 1800 to the Present
by William C. Meadows. B&W era photo. Condition: NEW 2002 UT Press large trade paperback, first paperback printing. Tiny edge wear. Content: For many Plains Indians, being a warrior and veteran has long been the traditional pathway to male honor and status. Men and boys formed military societies to celebrate victories in war, to perform community service, and to prepare young men for their role as warriors and hunters. By preserving cultural forms contained in song, dance, ritual, language, kinship, economics, naming, and other semireligious ceremonies, these societies have played an important role in maintaining Plains Indian culture from the pre-reservation era until today. In this book, Meadows presents an in-depth ethnohistorical survey of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche military societies, drawn from extensive interviews with tribal elders and military society members, unpublished archival sources, and linguistic data. He examines their structure, functions, rituals, and martial symbols, showing how they fit within larger tribal organizations. And he explores how military societies, like powwows, have become a distinct public format for cultural and ethnic continuity. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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LIFE AMONG THE APACHES
by John C. Cremony. Frederic Remington's "Apache Medicine Song" (detail) cover art. Condition: Gently pre-read 1991 Indian Head Books (London) hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), 5th printing. No problems, just pre-read. Content: Cremony's first encounter with the Indians of the Southwest occurred in the early 1850s, when he accompanied John R. Bartlett’s boundary commission surveying the United States-Mexican border. Some ten years later, as an officer of the California Volunteers, he renewed his acquaintance, particularly with the Apaches, whom he came to know as few white Americans before him had. Cremony's account of his experiences, published in 1868, quickly became, and remains today, a basic source on Apache beliefs, tribal life, and fighting tactics. Although its original purpose was to induce more effective military suppression of the Apaches, it has all the fast-paced action and excitement of a novel and the authenticity of an ethnographic and historical document. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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PORTRAITS OF "THE WHITEMAN": Linguistic play and cultural symbols among the Western Apache
by Keith H. Basso. Foreword by Dell Hymes. B&W comic illustrations by Vincent Craig. B&W maps. Condition: Gently pre-read 1987 Cambridge Univ. Press Trade Papaerback, reprint. Very light edge wear with pale hinge crease. Interior clean but for a name being marked out on the half title page. There may have been some pencil notes but if so, they have been removed. Content: Drawing on current theory in symbolic anthropology and sociolinguistics, this interpretive essay investigates a complex form of joking based on material collected in a Western Apache community wherein Apaches stage carefully crafted imitations of Anglo-Americans. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN CEREMONIALS
by Tom Bahti. Wonderful color drawings and photos illustrate. Condition: Gently pre-read (it was my book) 1987 KC Publications large soft cover, revised edition, 6th printing. Tiny edge wear. Content: Covers ceremonies of the Pueblo Peoples, Hopi, Zuni, Navajo, Apache, et al. Also of interest is the article on the "foreign" influence on these ceremonies. Excellent! [1 copy available]
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SOUTHWEST INDIANS COLORING BOOK
by Peter F. Copeland. B&W "ready-to-color" drawings illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1994 Dover soft cover, no printing given. Content: Detailed, carefully researched illustrations depict Native Americans from the 1840s to 1980s: Pima basket maker, Navajo medicine man and braves, Hopi pottery makers, Acoma woman baking bread, Pueblo flute player, modern Yuma woman and child, tribal drum makers of the Taos pueblo, Zuni turquoise driller and more. Descriptive captions included. Excellent for classrooms. [1 copy available]
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SURVIVAL OF THE SPIRIT: Chiricahua Apaches in Captivity
by H. Henrietta Stockel. B&W era photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1993 Univ. of Nevada Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. DJ is very short "repaired" tear back panel at flap. Small remainder mark bottom edges. Content: Examines the medical hardships endured by the Chiricahua Apache prisoners of war after the United States imprisoned them in the humid regions of the East. By the author of Women of the Apache Nation: Voices of Truth. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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NATIVE AMERICAN PONY BOOKPLATES
art by Deviney. Condition: NEW package of 12 bookplates made by pacaritambo books. The peel-off label stock is heavier than most bookplate materials and is matte and not glossy. They are as perfect as possible, and we feel the subject matter is much different than you can get at a big store. 3.0 wide x 4.00 high. Content: Prancing Indian Pony decked out in feathers with his portrait above. We can personalize your bookplate (the font is Enviro D) - just email us the name. Any questions, click here to email us.
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