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Title: More pseudo historical junk
Review: A novel typical of many modern westerns, more interested in creating a politically correct image of frontier life in the minds of readers than to give readers an idea of what things were really like. Mickey Free was a real person. He was born Felix Ward, and was violently kidnapped from his family ranch by people we today would call terrorists. He had no familial relationship with Geronimo (Golkayeh) or Chato or any other Chiricaua. He did spend a lot of time with some White Mountain Apache bands, after coming to live among them after his captors traded him off as if he were livestock. He shared the White Mountain Apache loathing of the Chiricaua. As an adult he was an enemy of the Chiricaua because of his treatment at their hands, and the great motivation for him to scout for the Army was for revenge.I would not recommend this novel to anyone who is truly interested in what life was like in the southwestern frontier.
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