The Last Campaign Sherman Geronimo And The War For America H W Brands by H. W. Brands instant download after payment.

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Bestselling historian & Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives of General William Tecumseh Sherman & Apache war leader Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars & the final fight for control of the American continent.

William Tecumseh Sherman & Geronimo were keen strategists and bold soldiers, ruthless with their enemies. Over the course of the 1870s & 1880s these two war chiefs would confront each other in the final battle for what the American West would be: a sparsely settled, wild home where Indian tribes could thrive, or a more densely populated extension of the America to the east of the Mississippi.

Sherman was a well-connected son of Ohio who attended West Point & rose to prominence through his scorched-earth campaigns in the Civil War. Geronimo grew up among the Apache people, hunting wild game for sustenance & roaming freely on the land. After the brutal killing of his wife, children & mother by Mexican soldiers, he became a relentless avenger, raiding Mexican settlements across the American border. When Sherman rose to commanding general of the Army, he was tasked with bringing Geronimo and his followers onto a reservation where they would live as farmers & ranchers & roam no more. But Geronimo preferred to fight.

The Last Campaign is a powerful retelling of a turning point in the making of our nation & a searing elegy for a way of life that is gone.

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H. W. BRANDS holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. A New York Times bestselling author, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for The First American & Traitor to His Class.