This story reveals the life of a Yavapai-Apache boy named Wassaja, who was kidnapped from his tribe and sold as a slave. Adopted and renamed Carlos Montezuma, the young boy traveled throughout the Old West, bearing witness to the poor treatment of American Indians. Carlos eventually became a doctor and leader for his people.
- ISBN: 9780822576440
- Author: Capaldi, Gina
- Published: 2008 , Carolrhoda Books
- Themes: Doctors, Indigenous, leader
- Descriptors: Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Picture Book, Southwest, United States
- No. of pages: 32