Word: geronimo
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Esteban smelled powder early. He was only five months old when his Indian mother carried him through the battle of Cerro Caido, in the war of independence (against Spain). In the battle his mother lost her man but rescued an aristocrat. Don Geronimo Cerromayor, was adopted for her pains. So Esteban grew up with a fancy name, but there were still times when he felt like an Indian...
When middle-aged Don Geronimo took a beautiful young wife, Favia, he was a long time noticing how Esteban looked at her. By the time he did, and sent Esteban off to be a soldier, the damage was done. The army was just the life for Esteban: he had a fine time and learned a lot. Then there was an Indian uprising; he applied for active service, saw plenty. came back not only a colonel but a hero. Life, which he liked simple, began to grow complicated. He put horns on Don Geronimo's hat, and Favia loved...
...issued regarding his attitude toward a possible larger expedition. The situation was somewhat reminiscent, though on a much smaller scale, of General Pershing's 1916 entrance into Mexican territory in unsuccessful search for Bandit Villa. The Apaches sought are descendants of those Red Indians who under chieftain Geronimo were dispersed by General Miles, in whose force was one Surgeon Leonard Wood...
Forty years ago, a cruel Indian chief named Geronimo was at the head of the Apaches in Southern Arizona. His desperate soldiers killed many a paleface, scalped many a miner howling with despair and fury, and rode away, across the prairie. At last a U. S. regiment fought Geronimo's men, and beat them. Most of the Indians were captured. Those who were not one afternoon rode their little ponies slowly across the border into Mexico, up the steep trails into the mountains, and fortified a camp...
...which he was attached provided that no interne could perform an operation. One day the ambulance brought in an injured child. Wood operated to save life, saved it, was fired. So he went into the Army, was sent out west, applied for a regular fighting job, got it, chased Geronimo, last of the Indian fighters, shared with General Lawton full credit for his capture...