Showing results for "Geronimo" in Literature & Fiction

When Silas Van Loy flees home on horseback to avoid capture for his brother's murder, he is soon followed by both the police and his brother's wife, Lena, who is intent on exacting revenge. She reluctantly lets her trusted stable assistant join her in a journey across the wilds of Northern California in the hope of catching Silas for one final showdown.

A family in New York packs the car and sets out on a road trip. A mother, a father, a boy and a girl, they head southwest, to the Apacheria, the regions of the US which used to be Mexico. They drive for hours through desert and mountains. They stop at diners when they’re hungry and sleep in motels when it gets dark. The little girl tells surreal knock knock jokes and makes them all laugh. The little boy educates them all and corrects them when they’re wrong. The mother and the father are barely speaking to each other.

Der Kampf Geronimos und seiner Apachen-Krieger für Ehre und Freiheit geht weiter! Geronimos enger Weggefährte Cochise schwört Rache für die Ermordung seines Bruders und seiner Neffen durch die US-Army. Geronimo muss miterleben, wie sich Cochise auf einen blutigen Rachefeldzug begibt, der fürchterliche Opfer auf beiden Seiten fordert. Als dann der Häuptling Mangas Coloradas in einen Hinterhalt gelockt und umgebracht wird, geht ein Aufschrei durch die Apachen-Stämme. Der Krieg gegen die Weißen erreicht eine neue Stufe der Grausamkeit und die Gewaltspirale dreht sich weiter.

Wandeln Sie auf den Spuren des berühmten wie berüchtigten Apachen-Kriegers Geronimo und lassen Sie sich von seiner wechselvollen Lebensgeschichte voller Höhen und Tiefen, Siege und Niederlagen inmitten der Indianerkriege mitreißen! Am Ende seines Lebens angelangt, erinnert sich Geronimo an seine Zeit als junger Mann: Die Apachen müssen damals in den brutalen Indianerkriegen gleichzeitig gegen die US-Amerikaner und die Mexikaner kämpfen. Beide Nationen gehen mit äußerster Brutalität und Gnadenlosigkeit vor.

Geronimo was a master war strategist before he surrendered. After his incarceration, the remarkable Indian adapts and becomes a keen observer of how the white man thinks. Especially the white man who is president. How can he get President Theodore Roosevelt to let him take his people back to their home in Arizona? The man is a powerful opponent who has no love for Indians. Especially Geronimo. Unable to change the president’s mind without help, he uses the laptop to send messages to Lt. Gatewood, the officer he grew to trust when he was a prisoner at Fort Apache.

„Zur Zeit, als das Auftauchen unbekannter Welten die Geister des alten Europa bewegte, lebte in Spanien ein verarmter Edelmann namens Geronimo de Aguilar, ein ruheloser Charakter, der, seit die Taten des Christoph Columbus und anderer Helden von sich reden gemacht, nur den einzigen Willen hatte, es jenen Männern gleichzutun. Aber da war guter Rat teuer. Als Matrose oder Soldat oder selbst als untergeordneter Offizier auf einem Schiff dienen, erlaubte Geronimos Stolz nicht, und um die Leitung auch nur der kleinsten Expedition zu bekommen, musste man entweder Geld oder mächtige Gönner haben.”

On February 17, 1909, in the dark heart of winter, the great Apache leader, Geronimo, dies of pneumonia after 23 years as a prisoner of war of the United States. Days later, a highly decorated young Marine corporal named Frank Kidd learns of Geronimo’s death. Kidd’s real name is Chaco, and he is Geronimo’s nephew. Orphaned at birth, Chaco was toughened by the cruelties of the white man’s Indian school, battle-hardened by guerrilla warfare, and severely wounded in the 1906 Cuban Pacification Campaign.

When Silas Van Loy flees home on horseback to avoid capture for his brother’s murder, he is followed by both the police and his brother’s wife, Lena, who is intent on exacting revenge. She reluctantly lets her trusted stable assistant join her in a journey across the wilds of Northern California in the hopes of catching Silas for one final showdown. Stansel follows the chase and shares the story of the brothers’ rise from hardscrabble childhood to their reign as the region’s preeminent horse trainers, tracking the tense sibling rivalry that ultimately leads to the elder’s death.

A vent'anni dall'infausto incidente che ha reso cieco il fratello minore Geronimo, Carlo è ancora assalito dai sensi di colpa. Quando il padre dei fratelli muore, la loro sfortuna si fa ancora più grande e i due giovani sono costretti a mendicare per i passi del nord Italia e del sud Tirolo. Un giorno, un viaggiatore di passaggio convince Geronimo di aver donato venti franchi a Carlo, mentre Carlo asserisce di averne ricevuto solo uno: la lite che ne segue porterà a galla sentimenti a lungo sepolti.

A dark and socially provocative Southern-fried comedy about four UC Berkeley students who stage a dramatic protest during a Civil War reenactment - a fierce, funny, tragic work from a bold new writer. Born and raised in the heart of old Dixie, D'aron Davenport is a small-town fish floundering in the depths of a large, hyperliberal pond of UC Berkeley. Everything changes in his American history class, when D'aron lets slip that his hometown hosts an annual Civil War reenactment.

When Achilles Conroy and his brother Troy return from a tour of duty in Afghanistan, their white mother presents them with the key to their past: envelopes containing details about their respective birth parents. After Troy disappears, Achilles - always his brother’s keeper - embarks on a harrowing journey in search of Troy, an experience that will change him forever. Heartbreaking, intimate, and at times disturbing, Hold It ’Til It Hurts is a modern-day odyssey through war, adventure, disaster, and love, and explores how people who do not define themselves by race make sense of a world that does.

Twelve-year-old Lena-tu-ha and her two sisters escape from the cattle car on the train carrying the Native American Apaches from their homes in Arizona to the Boarding Schools in New Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The three pubescent maidens trek across the desert with nothing but the clothes on their backs to try to find any remnants of their tribe at the old rendezvous points that Geronimo had set up years before.