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...July 1945, Vail was handed a court order, told to go out to a ranch five miles west of town and get Jesusa Rodriguez' two children. Jesusa had been divorced from Geronimo Rodriguez and was supposed to have the children for the next six months. They were living with Geronimo's old man, Felix...
...Felix had a shotgun in the house; whether or not he pointed it at Sheriff Ennis is still in dispute. Anyway, the sheriff let go with his submachine gun. Felix tottered backward, died in his daughter Victoria's arms. Geronimo's uncles, Domingo and Antonio, came running from the back of the house. Ennis wheeled on the porch, fired another burst. They fell dead, too. Economical Ennis had fired only five shots-two for Felix, two for Dom and one for Tony...
...Geronimo! (Feb.). In Port Chester, N.Y., pajama-clad ex-Paratrooper Thomas Thomas bailed out of his second-floor bedroom, landed unhurt, explained: "I could swear I heard the sergeant yell 'Jump...
...trip at 19, on feet still tender from a year at Yale. He got his first callus when a tinhorn took him for his last cent. He added blisters working as clerk, ranch cook and cowhand. Finally he joined (as a correspondent) the fight against the Apache chief Geronimo...
Back East, he sold his first sketch, Indian Scouts on Geronimo's Trail, to Harper's Weekly for $10. In the next 23 years he produced more than 2,000 pictures, some 15 sculptures (in bronze), illustrated 73 books (13 of them his own travels...