Geronimo - 1886 is a photograph by Daniel Hagerman which was uploaded on September 17th, 2013.
Geronimo - 1886
Geronimo (Mescalero-Chiricahua: means one who yawns; June 16, 1829 - February 17, 1909) was a prominent leader of the Bedonkohe Apache who fought... more
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Geronimo - 1886
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Daniel Hagerman
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Geronimo (Mescalero-Chiricahua: means "one who yawns"; June 16, 1829 - February 17, 1909) was a prominent leader of the Bedonkohe Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States for their expansion into Apache tribal lands. The Apache Wars lasted several decades.
Geronimo was the name given to him during a battle with Mexican soldiers. His Chiricahua name is often rendered as Goyathlay or Goyahkla in English.
After an attack by Mexican soldiers killed his mother, wife and three children in 1858, Geronimo took revenge against the Mexicans. During his career as a war chief, he was notorious for consistently urging raids upon Mexican provinces and towns, and later against American locations across Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas.
In 1886 Geronimo surrendered to U.S. authorities after a lengthy pursuit. As a prisoner of war in old age he became a celebrity and appeared at fairs, but was never allowed to return to the land of his birth. He later regretted his surrender and claimed the conditions promised by his captors had been ignored.
Geronimo died in 1909 from complications of pneumonia at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Based upon an original photograph by A.F. Randall.
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