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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 about a young Apache Ind ....

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.... 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 men where to be separated from their fa ....