Addie Slaughter:
The Girl Who Met Geronimo
by Susan L. Krueger, Ed.D. with Reba Wells Grandrud, Ph.D.Five Star Publications
2011
Paperback: 64 pages
ISBN-10: 1589851978
ISBN-13: 978-1589851979
$15.95
Synopsis
Indian attacks, outlaws, rattlesnakes, smallpox and blizzards are a few of the true-to-life dangers experienced by Addie Slaughter, daughter of the famous John Horton Slaughter, famed Cochise County Sheriff and an early settler of the San Bernardino Valley in the late 1800s.
In first-person narrative, author Susan Krueger speaks for Addie, who tells her adventurous, sometimes heartbreaking, story of traveling across the wild west from Texas to Arizona to Oregon, and then eventually settling on the Slaughter Ranch near the Arizona-Mexico border. Along the way, Addie's mother dies, her family narrowly escapes a stagecoach robbery, their adobe ranch buildings collapse in a terrible earthquake, her father's earlobe is shot off; and Addie meets Geronimo.
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This book is a great way for kids to learn about late 1800s life in Arizona, especially with the state Centennial coming up in 2012. The author is a retired educator and a reading specialist, which makes this a superb age appropriate book that makes reading and learning history fun. It even has a curriculum guide created by another educator (Jean Kilker) with pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading activities. Additionally, it was written with input from Reba Wellls Grandrud, who is the Slaughter Family Historian... ~5 out of 5 stars!--Kjersti Wasiak, Tucson Book Examiner, Book Examiner Event Listing
Based on the actual stories Addie Slaughter passed on to her daughter, and in-depth interviews with Dr. Reba Wells Grandrud, the John H. Slaughter Ranch historian, Addie Slaughter: The Girl Who Met Geronimo, succeeds in capturing the interest and imagination of young readers with its youthful voice, colorful descriptions, historical photographs and exciting recount of actual events.--Arizona Council for the Social Studies, www.azsocialstudies.org.
About the authors
An Arizona-based teacher for 32 years, Susan L. Krueger, Ed.D., earned her undergraduate, Master's and Doctorate degrees from Northern Arizona University. She taught first-grade students in Holbrook, elementary and junior high remedial readers in Flagstaff and elementary remedial readers in the Cartwright District in Phoenix. She also taught adults at Chapman University and Arizona State University West.
Though she officially "retired" in 2000, Krueger joined the Phoenix Art Museum docent program and is currently their research chair. In addition, Krueger gives many slide show talks on art-related topics around the Valley of the Sun and writes research papers on art objects for use by museum docents.
Arizona Culture Keeper Reba Wells Grandrud, Ph.D., earned an undergraduate degree in education, and graduate degrees in Southwest History and History of the American West from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque before moving to Arizona in 1982.
While working in 1983 as a research historian/writer for Gerald A. Doyle & Associates, a Phoenix architectural firm known for its historic preservation projects, Grandrud became aware of John H. Slaughter's San Bernardino Ranch in southeastern Cochise County. Although she's worn many historically inclined hats since then, she has continued her involvement with the ranch through today.
The resume of prestigious positions that Grandrud, a "Roads Scholar" (speaker) with the Arizona Humanities Council AzHC, has held include: Chief Curator/Assistant Director for Central AZ Division/Arizona Historical Society (AHS), Research Historian for Yuma Crossing Foundation, the first Heritage Fund Planner for Arizona State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), and SHPO Historian and Coordinator of the National Register of Historic Places. As a volunteer, she helped revive Arizona Historical Society's oral history program in the mid-1980s, and was a leader in the successful movement to resurrect the AZ Women's Hall of Fame program in 2002. Although retired in 1998, Grandrud spent 2000-2002 as director of the Arizona Historical Society Museum, Tempe, Arizona. In 2003, Grandrud and Arizona State Historic Preservation Officer Jim Garrison formed the Inventory of Arizona Historic Cemeteries Working Group, county volunteers who are compiling a 2012 Centennial Legacy Project, a comprehensive inventory of every historic burial site in Arizona.
Today, Grandrud continues to work as a historical consultant and active volunteer in leadership positions or as a board member for a wide range of nonprofits including Partnership for National Trails System, Anza Trail Foundation, Old Spanish Trail Association, Arizona State Committee of Trails, Arizona History Convention, Pioneers' Cemetery Association, Phoenix Corral of Westerners, and Sunnyslope Historical Society – in addition to co-authoring Addie Slaughter The Girl Who Met Geronimo.
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