Tuesday, 31 August 2010

Geronimo!

Geronimo






Although the Apache Indian Chief, Cochise, made peace with the United States, Geronimo and a small band of followers became renegade Indian outlaws terrorizing ranches along the Mexico/Texas border for over 14 years. Following Geronimo's capture in 1886, he was held in Fort Pickens, Florida and the in Fort Sill, Oklahoma where he died in 1909.

(From a photo taken circa 1886)



Apache leader Geronimo (right) is depicted with a small group of followers in Northern Mexico in 1866

Portrait of Geronimo by Edward S. Curtis, 1905.

Geronimo's grave at  Fort Sill, Oklahoma in 2005.




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