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Geronimo, Apache Indian chief

; became a war-chief when sixteen years old, and for almost fifty years led a band of bloodthirsty savages; was a constant terror to the settlers in the Southwest, where he perpetrated many frightful atrocities. He was captured near Prescott, Ariz., in 1886, by Generals Miles and Lawton, after a [67] continued chase of four years, at the expense of hundreds of lives. He was first

Geronimo.

imprisoned at Mount Vernon, Ala., but later at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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