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, Neil juxtaposes his own journal entries with the older ones, creating a moment of conversation and common ground between father and son while solving some enduring mysteries. Grenville Goodwin (1907-1940) was a well-known and respected ethnographer of the Apaches. Neil Goodwin, an independent filmmaker and consultant, is the president of Peace River Films. His documentaries on Native subjects include Geronimo and the Apache Resistance and Seasons of a Navajo.
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"[The Apache Diaries] is both a well-told detective story and a moving story of one man's search for his past. It is also a valuable addition to literature on the Apaches."--Times Literary Supplement, 27 October 2000 "'The Apache Diaries' is a haunting, passionate and meticulous detective story. A son's longing determination to know his enigmatic father, and the brutal war waged upon a small, resourceful band of Apache, are the stuff of a terrific read that at times left me breathless with sorrow." - Louise Erdrich. "Neil Goodwin has written a great book. One need know nothing of the Apache or anthropology or the work of Grenville Goodwin to be caught up at once in its spell. With steadily gathering force, the amazing story unfolds of two exceptional men, father and son, each on his own quest. And always one feels the haunting presence of the Apache, their world and their mysteries." - David McCullough. "'The Apache Diaries' is about seeking. It is about our boundless urge to bring our lives full circle, gathering them into a meaningful whole. It is about Apaches, but so is it about each of us. Not since Theodora Kroeber penned Ishi has there been another book like this." - Bernard L. Fontana, author of 'Tarahumara: Where Night Is the Day of the Moon' "A son's search for his father and the father's search, fifty years earlier, for the mysterious Sierra Madre Apaches, come together in this profoundly moving story." - H. Henrietta Stockel, author of 'Women of the Apache Nation: Voices of Truth' "An absorbing and informative account of an unexplored chapter in Chiricahua Apache history." - Keith N. Basso
Grenville Goodwin (1907-40) was a well-known and respected ethnographer of the Apaches. Neil Goodwin is an independent filmmaker and the president of Peace River Films. He has produced the documentary Geronimo and the Apache Resistance, as well as other films for public television.
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