TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brands,H.W.
TI  - The last campaign: Sherman, Geronimo, and the War for America 
SN  - 9780385547284
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Doubleday
KW  - Geronimo,
KW  - Sherman, William T.
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Wars
KW  - 1866-1895
KW  - Generals
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Apache Indians
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Maps on endpapers; Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-380) and index; Prologue -- The making of the warrior -- The campaign begins -- Adobe walls and lava beds -- Beyond the Greasy Grass -- The trail to Skeleton Canyon -- Old warriors die
N2  - "Bestselling historian and Pulitzer-prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives and battles of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache warrior Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American continent"--; William Tecumseh Sherman and Geronimo were keen strategists and bold soldiers, ruthless with their enemies. Over the course of the 1870s and 1880s these two war chiefs would confront each other in the final battle for what the American West would be: a sparsely settled, wild home where Indian tribes could thrive, or a more densely populated extension of the America to the east of the Mississippi. Sherman was a well-connected son of Ohio who attended West Point and rose to prominence through his scorched-earth campaigns in the Civil War. Geronimo grew up among the Apache people, hunting wild game for sustenance and roaming freely on the land. After the brutal killing of his wife, children and mother by Mexican soldiers, he became a relentless avenger, raiding Mexican settlements across the American border. When Sherman rose to commanding general of the Army, he was tasked with bringing Geronimo and his followers onto a reservation where they would live as farmers and ranchers and roam no more. But Geronimo preferred to fight
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