Cavalry, miners, outlaws and tourists, this range has retained its allure through time. Chiricahua National Monument was created in , and the Civilian Conservation Corps arrived in the s to build trails, rock structures and fire lookouts.
Join author William Ascarza as he tours the natural and human histories of this magnificent Arizona mountain range. Mason Davis is a troubled half-breed youth raised by his wealthy father in New York City. When his rebellious ways land him in serious trouble, Mason is sent West to relatives on the San Carlos Indian Reservation. There, he is forced to confront his Indian heritage and a new way of life in a harsh and hostile land.
Follow his footsteps as he strives to overcome many obstacles and severe challenges on his way to becoming Massai, great Chiricahua warrior. Action, suspense, drama and romance all unfold as Massai struggles to unlock shocking family secrets while facing life and death battles with formidable enemies.
Cochise was a great Chief and Geronimo was a feared warrior of the Chiricahua tribe. Now comes Massai, leader of the Apache Nation's next generation. Dennis has superbly captured the essence of the turn-of-the-century Southwest territory, its native people, and those on both sides of the law who made that untamed land their home. His characters come alive and keep you turning the pages. An excellent read. Clayton Today Newspaper. Body and Soul concentrates on the creative and cultural dilemmas both personal and political that affect the individuals in Aldrich's films.
In the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon, a stunningly vivid historical account of the manhunt for Geronimo and the year Apache struggle for their homeland. They called him Mickey Free. His kidnapping started the longest war in American history, and both sides--the Apaches and the white invaders—blamed him for it.
A mixed-blood warrior who moved uneasily between the worlds of the Apaches and the American soldiers, he was never trusted by either but desperately needed by both. He was the only man Geronimo ever feared. He played a pivotal role in this long war for the desert Southwest from its beginning in until its end in with his pursuit of the renegade scout, Apache Kid. In this sprawling, monumental work, Paul Hutton unfolds over two decades of the last war for the West through the eyes of the men and women who lived it.
These lives shaped the violent history of the deserts and mountains of the Southwestern borderlands--a bleak and unforgiving world where a people would make a final, bloody stand against an American war machine bent on their destruction. This book explores in depth the origins, development, and prospects of outlawry and of the relationship of outlaws to the social conditions of changing times.
Throughout American history you will find larger-than-life brigands in every period and every region. Often, because we hunger for simple justice, we romanticize them to the point of being unable to separate fact from fiction. A separate chapter on molls, plus equal treatment in the histories of gangs, traces women's involvement in outlaw activities. Prassel covers the folklore as well as the facts, even including an appendix of ballads by and about outlaws. He makes clear how this motley group of bandits, pirates, highwaymen, desperadoes, rebels, hoodlums, renegades, gangsters, and fugitives—who stand tall in myth—wither in the light of truth, but flourish in the movies.
But there is plenty of evidence, in the form of slain victims and ruined lives, to show how many ways they caused harm. The Great American Outlaw is as much an excellent survey on the phenomenon as it is a brilliant exposition of the larger than-life figures who created it.
Above all, it is a tribute to that aspect of humanity that Americans admire most and that Prassel describes as a willingness "to fight, however hopelessly, against exhibitions of privilege. Westerns may have had their heyday, but they remain popular. For each year, the author names the outstanding western films in the following categories: picture, screenplay original and adaptation , direction, cinematography, music, male and female leading roles, and male and female supporting roles.
On September 5, , the entire nation rejoiced as the news flashed from the Southwest that the Apache war leader Geronimo had surrendered to Brigadier General Nelson A. With Geronimo, at the time of his surrender, were Chief Naiche the son of the great Cochise , sixteen other warriors, fourteen women, and six children.
It had taken a force of 5, regular army troops and a series of false promises to "capture" the band. Yet the surrender that day was not the end of the story of the Apaches associated with Geronimo. Besides his small band, of his tribesmen, including his wife and children, were rounded up, loaded into railroad cars, and shipped to Florida.
They never gave up hope of returning to their mountain home in Arizona and New Mexico, even as their numbers were reduced by starvation and disease and their children were taken from them to be sent to the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press Many Western novels and movies provide insight into contemporary problems - such as sexism, racism, violence, and exploitation of the land - and advocate social change.
Emmert demonstrates that such commentary is not new to Westerns; every generation has produced works that dared to criticize society. To illustrate this point, Emmert analyzes a range of Western novels and films produced prior to the late s which broke with old formulas in order to comment on social ills. Some of the techniques listed in The White Masai may require a sound knowledge of Hypnosis, users are advised to either leave those sections or must have a basic understanding of the subject before practicing them.
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