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While well-known, Geronimo was not a chief of the Bedonkohe band of the Central Apache but a shaman, as was Nokay-doklini among the Western Apache. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] However, since he was a superb leader in raiding and warfare, he frequently led large numbers of 30 to 50 Apache men.
Geronimo Campaign, between May 1885 and September 1886, was the last large-scale military operation of the Apache wars.It took more than 5,000 U.S. Army Cavalry soldiers, led by the two experienced Army generals, in order to subdue no more than 70 (only 38 by the end of the campaign in northern Mexico) Chiricahua Apache who fled the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation and raided parts of the ...
Davis, Britton The Truth about Geronimo. New Haven: Yale Press 1929; Geronimo (edited by Barrett) Geronimo, His Own Story NY: Ballantine Books 1971; Kaywaykla, James (edited Eve Ball) In the Days of Victorio: Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache. Tucson: University of Arizona Press 1970; Lavender, David. The Rockies. Revised Edition.
Most people have heard someone scream, “Geronimo!”, ... a movie, and more drinks. The movie they most likely saw was Geronimo, a western film about the Apache Indian chief of the same name.
Trailing Geronimo: Some hitherto unrecorded incidents bearing upon the outbreak of the White mountain Apaches and Geronimo's band in Arizona and New Mexico. Gem Publishing Co. Roberts, David (1994). Once They Moved Like The Wind: Cochise, Geronimo, And The Apache Wars. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-88556-4. Runkle, Benjamin (2011).
George R. Crook (September 8, 1828 – March 21, 1890) [1] [2] [3] was a career United States Army officer who served in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars.He is best known for commanding U.S. forces in the 1886 campaign that led to the defeat of the Apache leader Geronimo.
"I like Geronimo just as he was, a human predator", said Milius. [10] "Geronimo was a man who saw the history of his people wiped out", added Milius. "I love the Apaches and Geronimo was the ultimate Apache. But Geronimo was more than an Apache he was the essence of a misfit rebel and he would never give up. He was a troublemaker and I ...
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