Geronimo surrendered on a promise. He died a prisoner 22 years later
On 4 September 1886, Geronimo surrendered to General Nelson Miles in Skeleton Canyon, on a promise he said was sealed with a stone on a blanket: a house, land, cattle and horses, and his family again within five days.
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Sources
Sources
- Senate Ex. Doc. No. 117, 49th Congress, 2nd Session (1887), the correspondence with General Miles on the surrender of Geronimo
- S. M. Barrett (ed.), Geronimo's Story of His Life (1906)
- Norman B. Wood, Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs (1906)
- Savannah Morning News, 26 October 1886; Arizona Weekly Citizen, 16 April 1887; Austin Weekly Statesman, 19 May 1887; Washington Times, 4 March 1905; Montgomery Advertiser, 5 March 1905; The Sun (New York), 10 March 1905; Daily Ardmoreite, 18 February 1909; New-York Tribune, 18 February 1909 (Chronicling America, Library of Congress)
- National Park Service, Chiricahua National Monument, "Post Apache Wars"
Pictures
- C. S. Fly's photographs of 1886; portraits by Rinehart and Muhr, Edward S. Curtis, the Gerhard Sisters, Brady and Handy, C. M. Bell and Harris & Ewing; the plates of the 1906 book; J. N. Choate's photograph at Carlisle (1886); Library of Congress, National Archives and Historic American Buildings Survey photographs, including the Village of Apache Prisoners of War at Fort Sill (1896), Detroit Publishing's White House and State, War and Navy Building, and the Bain Collection; a wood engraving of men sawing logs (about 1870).
Film
- Edison and Biograph films of 1897 and 1898, the St. Louis World's Fair (1904) and Theodore Roosevelt's inauguration (1905) (Library of Congress); Ford Motor Company film of St. Augustine (1917), the Wanamaker expedition (1913), Fort Marion (1934) and the Bureau of Mines film of Arizona (1939) (National Archives).
- DVIDS: the Quadrangle, Fort Sam Houston, by Spc. DeAndre Pierce, U.S. Army North (2021); Carlisle Barracks post cemetery, by Curtis Keester, U.S. Army Garrison Carlisle Barracks (2022). The appearance of U.S. Department of War (DoW) visual information does not imply or constitute DoW endorsement.
Credits
- Skeleton Canyon aerial by BAlvarius, CC BY-SA 3.0. Geronimo's grave by Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0. Inside Fort Pickens by Suziecleancleats, CC BY-SA 4.0. Henry Lawton, Seattle Municipal Archives, CC BY 2.0.