Geronimo

Often obscure historical studies and newspaper reports form the basis for the short essays in Prisoner of Lies, Geronimo's Twenty-Three Years in Captivity. When Geronimo and his warriors surrendered to the U.S. Army, General Miles made a number of promises for the surrender terms that were in fact false. The snippets of history in these essays provide insights into how Chiricahua prisoners of war lived while held in captivity by the United States Army in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as seen through the eyes of their war leader Geronimo. The indignities and lies they suffered, and how they maintained their tribal culture in the face of great pressure to change or vanish entirely, are brought to life and provided new context through this book.