New Mexico Historical Review Volume 3 Number 3 Article 2 7-1-1928 Geronimo (Continued) John P. Clum Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmhr Recommended Citation Clum, John P.. "Geronimo (Continued)." New Mexico Historical Review 3, 3 (1928). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmhr/vol3/iss3/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in New Mexico Historical Review by an authorized editor of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. NEW MEXICO HISTORICAL REVIEW Vol. III. July, 1928. No.3. GERONIMO* (Continue<J) BY JOHN P. CLUM After passing Bisbee, the renegades ' continued into Mexico and soon were again quite safe in their favorite res_ort amid the fastnesses of the Sierra Madre Mountains. The annual report of the Secretary of War for 1886 - which includes the reports of Generals Sheridan,· Crook, Miles, and others - presents the official record of many exceedingly interesting details of the military operations against the_ Apache hostiles during the period covered by that report, the most vital of which are set forth in the following paragraphs - reduced to their lowest terms. The band of Chiricahua "prisoners" who "escaped" from the reservation on May 17, 1885, consisted of forty two men and ninety-four women and children. · As soon as it was known that this desperate band were again on the war-path, General Crook ordered "no less than twenty troops of cavalry and more than one-hundred Indian scouts" into the field, and these "were moved· in every direction either to intercept or follow the trails of the hostiles." But with the exception of· "a slight skirmish with their rear • Copyright - 1928.