Gatewood and Geronimo ebook

by Louis Kraft

Only 1 left in stock (more on the way). Geronimo and Gatewood emerge from these pages as men of courage and honor whose mutual respect brought a peaceful end to the last Apache war. This recent addition to the parallel lives genre is a superbly-told tale of the vicious Apache wars of the 1880s in Arizona, New Mexico and Mexico. Thankfully, author Kraft has in large part admirable accomplished this task. Kraft has produced a valuable military biography that should interest a wide audience.

Louis Kraft, an independent scholar, is the author of Gatewood & Geronimo and Custer and the Cheyenne: George Armstrong Custer’s Winter . The movie was of course way off in comparison of the book

Louis Kraft, an independent scholar, is the author of Gatewood & Geronimo and Custer and the Cheyenne: George Armstrong Custer’s Winter Campaign on the Southern Plains. The movie was of course way off in comparison of the book. Lt. Gatewood was truly left behind in recognition of his accomplishments of the Apache Wars and Geronimo. It was stated in this book that Lt. Gatewood was buried in Arlington National Cemetery and when I looked up famous people buried at Arlington only Gen, Nelson Miles was there and how he ended the Apache wars, no mention of Lt.

Gatewood and Geronimo book. Showing the depravity and desperation of the Apache wars, Louis Kraft dramatically recreates Gatewood's final mission and poignantly recalls the United States government's betrayal of the Chiricahuas, Geronimo, and Gatewood at the campaign's en. .

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Gatewood was dispatched by General Miles to seek out Geronimo for a parley. Lawton reluctantly allowed Gatewood and his scouts to join his command. Gatewood, Charles B. (2009). Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir.

Louis Kraft dramatically recreates Gatewood's final mission and poignantly recalls the United States government's betrayal of the Chiricahuas, Geronimo, and Gatewood at the campaign's end.

Gatewood, Charles B; Kraft, Louis, 1947 . Prologue: The adventure begins - Mismanagement and the last outbreak - The Apache Indians - Military commandant - Civil problems - Gatewood and Geronimo - Epilogue: Slow fade to oblivion.

Gatewood, Charles B; Kraft, Louis, 1947-.

The two pre-eminent warriors of the Apache Wars between 1878 and 1886, Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood of the Sixth United States Cavalry and Chiricahua leader Geronimo, respected one another in peace and feared one another in war. Within two years of his posting to Arizona in 1878, Gatewood became the armys premier "Apache man" as both a commander of Apache scouts and a reservation administrator, but his equitable treatment of Indians aroused the enmity of civilian and military detractors, and the army shunned him. In the late 1870s Geronimo, a medicine man, emerged as a brilliant Chiricahua leader and fiercely resisted his people's incarceration on inhospitable federal reservations. His fight for freedom, often bloody, in New Mexico, Arizona, and Mexico triggered the deployment of hundreds of United States and Mexican troops and Apache Scouts to hunt him and his people. In the end, the United States Army recalled Gatewood to Apache service, ordering him into the Sierra Madre of northern Mexico to locate Geronimo and negotiate his band's surrender. Showing the depravity and desperation of the Apache wars, Louis Kraft dramatically recreates Gatewood's final mission and poignantly recalls the United States government's betrayal of the Chiricahuas, Geronimo, and Gatewood at the campaign's end.

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“Too much cannot be said in honor of this brave officer and it is lamentable that he should have died with only the rank of a Lieutenant.” - Colonel D. S. Gordon, commander of the 6th Cavalry

That would be an understatement in describing a man who for years, and with chronic health issues, patrolled the desert southwest to be instrumental in ending the Apache Wars. Leaving his superiors to glean all the recognition and glory, just because Gatewood lacked the hubris necessary to blow his own bugle. This is a must read for anyone interested in the history of the American West. You will not be disappointed. Lieutenant Gatewood ranks up there with all the great names of the era, though remains largely unknown.

PanshyR

Mr. Kraft has a lasting connection with officers of the United States Army that were sympathetic to the ways and cultures of the native Tribes of the West and Southwest. He understands the compassion of men like Ned Wynkoop and Charles B. Gatewood who were tasked with running the tribes pf the South Cheyenne and Apaches to ground. These men were looked upon as so-called "Indian lovers" in their day. In "Gatewood & Geronimo", Mr. Kraft sculpts a beautiful telling the of hunt for Geronimo and his strong Apaches and the relationship between this feared leader and the quiet Gatewood who was tasked with bringing an end to the Apache resistance. A wonderful piece of writing not to be missed with tremendous detail that places its readers into the heart of the harsh and deadly landscape that was the Apache Wars.

Djang

Louis Kraft know Lt. Charles Gatewood better than anyone else alive. Woven with an expert approach to the study of the Apache Wars, Gatewood & Geronimo is a critical source and a must-have for any student of frontier warfare or the southwest borderlands.

Painwind

A great historical account of two great warriors supported by excellent documented research by Mr. Kraft, the Author. Reads well.

Zadora

Very interesting read. Worthwhile purchase.

Kelezel

I am still reading this one, but it is interesting and I believe accurate. I think Mr. Kraft is a talented writer and I am particularly fond of his subject matter.

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"Gatewood and Geronimo" by Louis Kraft documents the heroic deeds of a man of unheralded greatness, of one Charles B. Gatewood. Many lesser men rose to the rank of general while Gatewood died holding the same rank he held when he played the key role in efecting the surrender of the formidable Apache warrior, Geronimo. The surrender of Geronimo effectively ended the American Indian Wars. Kraft's volume brings focus on the long neglected importance of Gatewood's role in American history, and on the long term effects that one ordinary man's moral integrity can have on human history, even though it was ignored, and even despised while Gatewood was alive.

KLIATT, November 2000 Reviewed by Raymond L. Puffer, Ph.D., Historian, Edwards Air Force Base, CA
Most historical accounts of Geronimo and the lengthy struggle of his Apache warriors against white settlement have focused upon either the Chiricahua leader himself, or the two U.S. Army generals usually credited with forcing their bitter surrender. George Crook and Nelson Miles were indeed instrumental in planning and leading the campaigns that hounded the remnants of the Apache people into their inevitable subjugation. Neither, however, could convince the holdouts ot lay down their arms and put themselves at the white man's mercy. That role fell to a weary cavalry lieutenant, Charles B. Gatewood, who had won the Indians' grudging respect through hard fighting and his sympathy to their plight. In the course of a final meeting, which was as poignant as it was historical, Gatewood at length persuaded the exhausted "renegades" to lay down their arms to General
Miles, and to accept his offer of farmland and aid. When Geronimo did so, the last native resistance to federal hegemony came to an end. Ultimately, though, Geronimo and Lieutenant Gatewood were betrayed by the federal government.
Louis Kraft has written an important and historically significant study of the final phase of the Apache Wars. Unusual for such books, this one is as readable as popular history, and it will be enjoyed by those who have an interest in looking behind the scenes of history. The book is a fine reminder that earnest, hardworking and suffering people were responsible for the events in their textbooks.
Publishers Weekly, April 17, 2000
This recent addition to the parallel lives genre is a superbly told tale of the vicious Apache wars of the 1880s in Arizona, New Mexico and Mexico. Drawing upon a variety of original sources, Kraft (Custer and the Cheyenne) reconstructs the complex story of the famous Chiricahua leader Geronimo, a medicine man who came forward as a tribal leader and headed resistance to the coerced settlement of his people on reservations where they were to become farmers instead of nomadic hunters. Lt. Charles B. Gatewood of the 6th U.S. Cavalry was posted to Arizona in 1878 and became a respected leader of Apache scouts, who tracked Apache guerrillas for the U.S. The frail lieutenant, sent to administer the Apache reservation, seemingly treated his charges fairly, earning the enmity of civilians and army brass, which led to a stalemated career and a lengthy court case brought by a man whom Gatewood arrested for defrauding Apaches. After meeting at various times and maintaining a mutual respect, Gatewood and Geronimo came together again in 1886, when the former was ordered to track the latter to Mexico and convince him to surrender, even as columns of American and Mexican troops searched for Geronimo's elusive group. The tension and frustrations of what was Gatewood's final mission are palpable, as he convinces Geronimo to allow the tribe's "relocation" to Florida. Gatewood, who gets much fuller treatment here than his counterpart, never got his due for brilliant service in tragically misguided cause, and Geronimo never again saw his homeland or many of his family, from whom he was separated.