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Geronimo (Goyathlay), c 1823-1909
Born on the upper Gila River, between what is now Arizona and New Mexico
Among the Apache Indians resisting white encroachments on their lands and way of life in the late nineteenth century, none was bolder or more unrelenting than Geronimo. A Bedonkohe Apache leader, he moved with his mother at an early age to Sonora and joined the southern Chiricahua Apache band led by Juh, a chief with whom he became associated. In the early 1850s, upon his return from a trading trip, he found his camp ransacked and his family massacred by Sonora soldiers. Vowing revenge, he raided persistently into Mexico and against U.S. Army troops, fighting the advance of the white American frontier and inflicting terror against white communities in parts of New Mexico and Arizona.
This image was taken from a larger photograph showing Geronimo and several of his followers in the Sierra Madre in 1886, just before he surrendered to the forces of General George Crook.
C.S. Fly, 1886 |