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1) Hombre
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A white man raised as an Apache faces confrontation with society.
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1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Betrayed by the Army's legendary "Indian fighter" General George Crook, Geronimo leads a small band of warriors in escape, but is pursued by a principled officer, a grizzled army scout, and a gung-ho West Point graduate.
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English
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Tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own. She was fully assimilated and perfectly happy when, at nineteen, she was ransomed back to white society.
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Civilization of the American Indian volume 51
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303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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vii, 514 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"Describes the violent history between the frontiersmen and the Native Americans in the Southwestern borderlands by following Mickey Free, a mixed-blood warrior who played a pivotal role in the fighting as he pursued the Apache Kid."--NoveList.
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Civilization of the American Indian volume 204
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xxiii, 501 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
12) Stagecoach
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Nine disparate travelers are thrust together in a perilous journey, a ride on a stagecoach destined for Apache territory.
13) Broken arrow
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Tom believes the Apaches are treated unfairly. After befriending their leader Cochise and arranging a truce, he is called upon by an Army General to negotiate a government peace treaty, but later is the target of a renegade ambush.
14) Geronimo
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xii, 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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Renowned for ferocity in battle, legendary for an uncanny ability to elude capture, feared for the violence of his vengeful raids, the Apache fighter Geronimo captured the public imagination in his own time and remains a mythic figure today. This thoroughly researched biography by a renowned historian of the American West strips away the myths and rumors that have long obscured the real Geronimo and presents an authentic portrait of a man with unique...
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"The hell called Yuma Prison can destroy the soul of any man. For two men facing life sentences--Harold Jackson, the only black man behind the walls, and Raymond San Carlos, an Apache half-breed--a pardon seems impossible. But even in the worst place on Earth, there's hope. And for these two hard and hated inmates--first enemies, then allies by necessity--it comes in the form of a mad and violent contest--to track down and hunt Arizona's five most...
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English
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"Summary: The history of the Apache diaspora is laid out in this book in eight roughly chronological chapters. Each chapter also possesses a thematic focus on a key location to which Apaches were displaced over time: palaces, prisons, schools. The first part of the book begins by tracing precolonial histories of captivity and migration before examining the formation of Apache diasporas in the context of Spanish, Comanche, and French colonialism. Part...
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