Word: geronimo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...water hole in the gullied, mountain-rimmed desert near Fort Delivery; the punishment of a cowardly trooper who, before the eyes of the assembled garrison, is branded on the hips with the letter D for deserter; the Indian encampment of Rainbow Son-Horgan's fictional version of Geronimo-deep in Mexico's Sierra Madre. Curiously, the battlescapes are poorly drawn, and may result from Horgan's dour knowledge that the Apaches invariably melted away when confronted with regular troops. Unfortunately for the balance of his book, the weight of a growing nation and the determination of Hazard...
...supplied Horgan with some fine prototypes: his tall, gaunt, white-bearded General Quait brings to crotchety life the veteran U.S. Indian fighter, General George Crook; and his hero's final mission recalls the remarkable trek of Lieut. Charles Gatewood into the mountains of Mexico to talk the unpredictable Geronimo into surrendering. That surrender, as Horgan puts it, marked the end of "an Indian war that has raged since the days of Cortez." Matthew Hazard's Arizona was made safe for supermarkets and swimming pools, just as John Cozad's Platte River country was plowed into fields...
...some 5,000 U.S. soldiers and 500 Indian allies spent a spring and summer chasing Geronimo and his Apache band, which numbered 35 men, 8 boys and 101 women. The Apache losses: 13 killed, none by direct U.S. action...
...most spectacular incision anywhere in earth's surface, the Arizona landscape sweeps eastward to the gaudy Painted Desert, takes in the stone trees of Petrified Forest, the cinder mountains piled up by a geological era of active volcanoes. Southward lie the butte-strewn sands where Apache Chief Geronimo waged the last Indian Wars upon whites, the rich, old copper mines producing one-half of U.S. needs, such legendary towns as Tombstone, where Gunslingers Wyatt Earp & Co. built the legends that feed to day's TV. Along the Mexican border, the rambling ranches still raise cattle, which...