Identifier: geronimosstoryof00gero (find matches)
Title: Geronimo's story of his life
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Geronimo, 1829-1909 Barrett, S. M. (Stephen Melvil), b. 1865
Subjects: Geronimo, 1829-1909 Apache Indians -- Kings and rulers
Publisher: New York, Duffield & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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w^ us, for we werenot molested. When we arrived in camp athome there w-as great rejoicing in the tribe.It was considered a good trick to get the^lexicans horses and leave them asleep inthe mountains. It was a long time before we again w^entinto ^Mexico or w^ere disturbed by the )Mex-icans. 85 CHAPTER X OTHER RAIDS WHEN reading the foregoing chap-ters of Apache raids one not ac-quainted with the lawlessness of the frontiermight wonder how this tendency of theApaches was developed to such a markeddegree; but one acquainted with the realconditions—the disregard for law by bothMexicans and white men along the borderline of Old INIexico and Arizona in earlydays—can readily understand where theApache got his education in the art of con-ducting lawless raids. In order, therefore,that those who are unacquainted with theconditions as they were in southern Arizonaduring the eighties, may understand the en-vironment of the Apaches, this chapter isgiven. The events herein narrated are taken86
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OTHER RAIDS by the author from many accounts givenhim by rehable men who lived in this sectionof country during the period mentioned. Raid by White MenIn 1882 a company of six Mexican tra-ders, who were known as smugglers be-cause they evaded duties on goods whichthey brought into United States and soldin Arizona, were camped in Skeleton Caiion,ten miles north of the north line of OldJNIexico. They were known to carry largesums of money, but as they were alwaysarmed and ready to defend their possessionsthey were not often molested. However, onthis occasion, just as they were rising in themorning to prepare their breakfast, fivewhite men opened fire on them from ambushand all save one of the JNIexicans were killed.This one, though wounded, finally made hisescape. A few days after the killing somecowboys on a round-up camped at thisplace and buried the remains (what the87 GERONIMO coyotes had left) of these five Mexicans.Two years later, at the same place, a cow-boy found a leather bag

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