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...member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, the elder Hearst received advance word of the surrender of Geronimo, the Apache chief whose periodic raids into the Babicora region had caused havoc among the ranchers. Before the news got out, he was able to buy several hundred thousand acres at 20? an acre...
...outside world. There was a child Jesus sitting with a crown of thorns in his lap, a warmly devout Santa Eufemia, and The Holy Family clustered around a bowl of fruit. Among other outstanding works in the show: a solemn Santa Lucia and a prayerful, intent Fray Geronimo Perez...
...enemy . . . Out of the stories that surrounded that epic campaign, boys of my time found their heroes. Now my own heroes were on the side that my own Army was then calling enemies-Red Cloud, Chief Dog, Rain in the Face, Young Man Afraid of His Horses, Crazy Horse, Geronimo ..." Tom-toms sounded as Ike named the chiefs...
...lazy, middle-aged loner like Jesse Geronimo Gundyhill, the Everglades were a paradise on earth. Food was everywhere. In a matter of minutes he could have him a royal feast of turkey, fish and exotic fruits. A little hunting produced the pelts and hides for trading. Jesse's ignorance was colossal. He couldn't read, write or count and he didn't know what year it was. But he had a good life and he knew...
...awareness of the 'Glades' endless beauties and dangers as she grows up. Few writers have had much luck in trying to describe a lonely child of nature in a natural setting. Author Russ does better than most. But just as swamp drainage and encroaching civilization tarnish Jesse Geronimo Gundyhill's idyllic way of life, so do they cheapen the second half of Quivering Earth. Jesse and Keeta wind up in a boom town, and in final chapters as lurid and contrived as the first are lyrical and artless, Jesse finds his long-lost children and the woman...