Apache Diaries: A Father-Son Journey; Author: Goodwin, Grenville; Joint Author: Goodwin, Neil; Hardback; Book

Author: Goodwin, Grenville; Joint Author: Goodwin, Neil
Hardback; Book; 31 Photographs, 11 Drawings, 2 Maps
304 pages
Published: June 2000
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803221754

The surrender of Geronimo in 1886 did not mark the end of Apache resistance to white encroachment. Over the next four decades, rumors persisted about a band of wild Apaches in the Sierra Madre. Who were these reclusive Apaches? In 1930 anthropologist Grenville Goodwin headed south to find out. Accompanying him were guides who had often encountered the Apaches, and as Goodwin searched out abandoned campsites, the Apaches almost certainly were aware of his every move.Grenville Goodwin's journals chronicling his epic search have been edited and annotated by his son Neil, who was born three months before his father's tragic death at the age of thirty-three. Neil Goodwin uses the journals to engage in a dialogue with the father he never knew. Retracing his father's journeys, NeilA son's search for his father and the father's search, fifty years earlier, for the mysterious Sierra Madre Apaches. Chronicles Goodwin's search for a band of wild Apaches in the Sierra Madre. His son, Neil, uses the journals to engage in a dialogue with the father he never knew. Retracing his father's journeys, he juxtaposes his entries with the others, creating a common ground between father and son.