Ulzana has won the Book of the Year Award from The Council for Wisconsin Writers and The Border Regional Library Association Fiction Award for literary excellence and enrichment of the cultural heritage of the Southwest. Although this is historical fiction, Ulzana was an actual person, the brother of Chihuahua, a Chiricahua sub-chief. The Apache life-way in this story is presented the way it was actually lived?the way Ulzana really experienced it. If you want to know what life was really like in the Wild West, this is the book for you Not only is this Ulzana?s story, it?s also the story of the Cho-ken-en (Chiricahua Apaches), their eventual surrender to the U.S. Army and the Shis-Inday (Apache) betrayal by the American government. Here are all the heroes and villains as they lived, bled, and died. After reading Ulzana?s story, you?ll appreciate these remarkable people in a new and authentic light. ?Sometimes just at sunset, if you walk through the deserts and mountains of Arizona and New Mexico you may still hear the sounds of their laughter and their weeping carried on the winds sweeping down from the heights. The mountains remember their dignity.?