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Chief of the Chiricahua Apache Indians and
war leader. From 1875 to 1885, he fought US
federal troops and settlers encroaching on
tribal reservations in the Southwest,
including SE Arizona and New Mexico. After
surrendering to Gen George Crook Mar 1886,
and agreeing to go to Florida where their
families were being held, Geronimo and his
followers escaped. Captured again Aug 1886,
they were taken to Florida, then to Alabama.
The climate proved unhealthy, and they were
taken to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where Geronimo
became a farmer. He dictated Geronimo's Story
of His Life 1906.