Word: mescalero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Geronimom. In Mescalero, N. Mex., Virginia Klinekole became the first woman president of a tribal council of the Apaches...
...story describes a Civil War episode in which a small Union garrison, perched alone in the borax wastes of the Arizona Territory, must guard itself from a restless crowd of Confederate prisoners within and from a cruel horde of Mescalero Indians without. A romantic fifth column is also on hand in the shape of a Texas belle (Eleanor Parker) who makes a play for the strong man of the garrison (William Holden). Unaware that Eleanor is really conspiring with the leader of the Confederate prisoners (John Forsythe), Holden plays right along with her-until suddenly both of them discover that...
Died. Kate Cross-Eyes, ninetyish, widow of Geronimo, famed Ghiricahua Apache leader who terrorized white settlers in Arizona and New Mexico in the 1880s; in Mescalero, N.Mex. The last of Geronimo's wives to die. Kate was captured in 1886, the year he and his war band surrendered...