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CHAPTER ONE - Duel by Stallion
CHAPTER TWO – Raiding the Papagoes
CHAPTER THREE – Alope
CHAPTER FOUR – Massacre
CHAPTER FIVE – Flight
CHAPTER SIX – Revenge
CHAPTER SEVEN – The White Men
CHAPTER EIGHT – The Battle of Apache Pass
CHAPTER NINE – A Wounded Chief
CHAPTER TEN – A Chief Dies
CHAPTER ELEVEN – Geronimo in Chains
CHAPTER TWELVE – Flight into Mexico
CHAPTER THIRTEEN – Fortress Paradise
CHAPTER FOURTEEN – Chief Gray Wolf
CHAPTER FIFTEEN – The Discontented
CHAPTER SIXTEEN – Hunted Like Wolves
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN – A Gallant Soldier
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN – The Last Surrender
Geronimo crawled up the hill so carefully that no stalk of grass moved, and no bush quivered. A pair of crested quail, feeding on insects in the grass, merely glanced up when he passed and went on feeding. Geronimo reached the top of the hill and crouched down in the grass.
Beyond were more hills, the near ones low, rocky, and given more to shrubs and grass than to trees. Geronimo's eyes strayed across the Arizona landscape to the east. There lay No-doyohn Canyon, where Geronimo had been born in 1829, just twelve years earlier. There his father had died when Geronimo was five years old. In the far distance beyond the canyon, tall, pine-clad mountains rose.
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As Geronimo rode down the hill, Delgadito's war horse caught scent of the other stallion and screamed his challenge. Ponce's bay answered, and the two stallions rushed each other. Quickly Geronimo planned his battle.
Such duels were a common way for Apache boys to settle arguments. They often resulted in the death of a horse, a rider, or both. When they did, it was usually the rider's fault. Geronimo planned on using his riding skill to make a fool of Ponce, and he intended that nobody should get hurt.
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