Carlos Montezuma M.D. a Yavapai American Hero: The Life and Times of an American Indian 1866-1923

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Impeccably researched and rich in detail Carlos Montezuma M.D. documents the life of one of the first Native American medical doctors. Taken from his family as a boy by Pima Indian warriors and sold to an itinerant Italian photographer Montezuma found himself deposited into vastly foreign surroundings at a very young age. In late nineteenth-century Chicago he was presented with opportunities both educational and social that had previously been unavailable to his people. Leon Speroff paints a full and well-rounded picture of the life and times of this remarkable man.