1805?-1874

"The year is 1872, the place is the Apache nation, a region torn apart by decades of war. Goyahkla, a young brave, has lost his family and everything he loves, After having a vision, he approaches the Apache leader Cochise to lead an attack against the Mexican village of Azripe. It is this wild display of courage that transforms the young brave Goyahkla into the Native American hero Geronimo. But the Apache Wars wage on. As they battle their enemies, lose loved ones, and desperately cling to their land and culture, they utter 'Indeh,' or 'the dead." When it appears that lasting peace has been reached, it seems like the war is over. Or is it?"--Jacket flap.

In February 1861, the twelve-year-old son of Arizona rancher John Ward was kidnapped by Apaches. Ward followed their trail and reported the incident to patrols at Fort Buchanan, blaming a band of Chiricahuas led by the infamous warrior Cochise. What followed that precipitous encounter would ignite a Southwestern frontier war between the Chiricahuas and the US Army that would last twenty-five years. In the days following the initial melee, innocent passersby -- Apache, white, and Mexican -- would be taken as hostages on both sides, and almost all of them would be brutally slaughtered.