Summary Of Burk's "Runs With Horses"
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Brian Burks has also written classic westerns for adults. This was
his first book for young adults. He lives in Tularosa, New Mexico with his
wife and five children.
This book takes place at Sierra Madre in Mexico with a small band
of Chiricahua Apaches. The year was 1886.
Runs With Horses is ....
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.... forced to fight to see who is superior.
Runs With Horses, however, only goes on three raids. On this
third raid, almost the entire raid party is killed when they are ambushed
by the Mexican army and the “White Eyes,” as they are referred to in the
book.
What is left of the entire Apache Nation, his tribe, are forced to
surrender to the White Eyes and are taken as prisoners of war to Florida by
train.
While stopped in Texas for two months, President Cleveland decided
that the Apache ....
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Word count: 359
Page count: 2 (approximately 250 words per page)
