Gatewood: Tales From The Life and Times of Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood

Author: Hal Shearon McBride Jr.

ISBN 978-1-62137-533-3 (softcover)
ISBN 978-1-62137-534-0 (eBook)

312 pages

Once again Hal McBride has displayed his great skill at painstakingly weaving threads of fiction into the vast fabric of historical facts. Gatewood journeys through the closing years of the Apache Wars against the unforgiving backdrop of the Arizona and New Mexico Territories (1878-1890). The great love affair of Charles and Georgia Gatewood intertwines its way throughout the story. The story takes the reader on Charles Gatewood and his Coyotero Apache scouts' pursuits of Nana and Victorio, finally leading to Gatewood's securing the surrender of Geronimo deep in the Mexican wilderness. From a wife frightened by the sight of a mouse to a woman who can crown a coyote with an iron skillet and still prepare a meal. The story traces Gatewood's evolution to an advocate of Indian Rights on the White Mountain Indian Reservation.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Hal McBride was born and raised in Stigler, Oklahoma. He attended Stigler High School. He received the majority of his undergraduate education at Arizona State College (Now Northern Arizona University) in Flagstaff, Arizona. He completed his Masters and Doctoral degrees at the University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dr. McBride resides with hi wife in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Gatewood is his fourth book and second historical novel following his highly acclaimed memoirs, To Bear Witness and Billie and the Boys. His first historical was the well-reviewed and honored Who Be Dragons.