The Only One Living to Tell: The Autobiography of a Yavapai Indian

by Mike Burns and Cleo Qian

Book Overview

Mike Burns--born Hoomothya--was around eight years old in 1872 when the US military murdered his family and as many as seventy-six other Yavapai men, women, and children in the Skeleton Cave Massacre in Arizona. One of only a few young survivors, he was adopted by an army captain and ended up serving as a scout in the US army and adventuring in the West. Before his death in 1934, Burns wrote about the massacre, his time fighting in the Indian Wars...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816501203
• ISBN13: 9780816501205
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"