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Now in paperback, a stirring historical novel from the author of One Thousand White Women When Ned Giles is orphaned as a teenager, he heads West hoping to leave his troubles behind. He joins the 1932 Great Apache Expedition on their search for a young boy, the son of a wealthy Mexican... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Tolley Phillips: From a rich family, flamboyant and affected.
- Margaret Hawkins: Anthropologist
- Albert: Joseph's grandson, an Apache from the reservation
- Joseph Valor: An old Apache with a history with the tribes
- Mr. Browning: A Britain who worked at a hotel but was hired on as Tolley's valet for the expedition
- Colonel Carrillo: A Mexican in charge of the expedition
- Gatlin: Chief of Police in Douglas, Arizona
- Ned Giles: An orphan, keeps a record of what goes on in several notebooks. He becomes a photographer and joins the Great Apache Expedition to search for son of a wealthy landowner who was kidnapped by Apaches
- Wade Jackson: Big Wade, a photographer who works for a Douglas newspaper
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- Magdalena: A young girl whose family sent her away with a priest; she became a prostitute
- Goso
- Fernando Huerta: Father of the boy who was kidnapped by the Apaches
- Geraldo Huerta: Kidnapped by Apaches at the age of three
- Billy Flowers: An excentric who hunted for mountain lions, etc. in the Southwest
- Charley Mccomas: A white man kidnapped when a young boy, he became an Apache chief
- Chideh: A young Apache woman
- Mayor Cargill
- Siki: Joseph's wife from long ago, an Apache
- Winston Hughes: An Englishman, rich, who joined the expedition
- Jesus: A Mexican boy who followed Ned, Tolley and the others
Quotes edit
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“But so many of the People are exhausted now from the endless wars, the constant flight, and they surrender, finally, to the White Eyes and are taken to live on the reservations.”
Dream of La Nina Bronca, telling the history of her people -
“Almost three months have passed since I left Mexico and only now can I begin to try to set down the terrible events of our final days there.”
Ned Giles -
“"I made the same mistake I warned you about, kid. I got to thinking that my camera was a shield, that it would protect me...."”
Big Wade
First Sentence edit
THE GIRL HEARD THE DOGS BARKING LONG BEFORE SHE COULD SEE them, a kind of frantic, high-pitched yipping.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jim Fergus (Author)
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Page Count: 350
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Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3556.E66W55 2005
- Dewey: 813.54
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