Geronimo’s Story of His Life
Geronimo, 1906
The Apache leader's own account of a life spent at war with two nations, dictated in captivity — and full of sharp, curious attention to the world that imprisoned him.
Geronimo
1829–1909
Geronimo dictated this book at Fort Sill in 1905; his editor, S. M. Barrett, needed President Roosevelt's permission to publish it, which came with War Department censorship attached.
Feels like war, defiance and home.
The first day of a life with no purpose left in it.
I stood until all had passed, hardly knowing what I would do—I had no weapon, nor did I hardly wish to fight, neither did I contemplate recovering the bodies of my loved ones, for that was forbidden. I did not pray, nor did I resolve to do anything in particular, for I had no purpose left. I finally followed the tribe silently, keeping just within hearing distance of the soft noise of the feet of the retreating Apaches. Books by Geronimo
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