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Geronimo: His Own Story: The Autobiography of a Great Patriot Warrior
By (Author) Geronimo
By (author) S. M. Barrett
Introduction by Frederick W. Turner
Notes by Frederick W. Turner
Penguin Putnam Inc
Signet
1st March 1996
United States
General
Non Fiction
Indigenous peoples
B
Paperback
208
Width 132mm, Height 202mm, Spine 14mm
170g
In the early 1900s, when Geronimo was taken prisoner, S. M. Barrett commissioned an interpreter to inter view the Native American warrior. This book is the result of that interview, telling the story of Geronimo''s life. '
Geronimo was a Bedonkohe Apache leader of the Chiricahua Apache, who led his people's defense of their homeland against the United States.He dictated his autobiography through an interpreter toS.M. Barrett, then superintendent of schools in Lawton, Oklahoma. Frederick W. Turner is an American historian and writer. He annotated the revised edition of Geronimo's 1906 autobiography.