o to New Mexico. Along the way they killed every Mexican they came across and stole their supplies. They later met up with their tribe in the Sierra de Antunez Mountains. United States soldiers trailed them and they had fights with them almost every day. Eventually the Apache made a treaty with the Mexicans agreeing they wouldn't fight anymore and the Indians would return to the Arizona Territory. They hoped to make a treaty with the United States. General Miles, leader of the treaty representatives, told Geronimo and his tribe that he would like peace between Geronimo and the white men. They both took an oath they would not do any wrong to each other. General Miles told Geronimo if he would surrender and become a man of peace he would be given a house, land, and men to work on his land. Even though Geronimo did not fully believe him he agreed and laid down his arms. As Geronimo thought, General Miles did not stand up to his end of the bargain. During this final fight, "at least 5,000 white soldiers and 500 Indians were employed in Geronimo's capture. Geronimo was finally tracked to his camp in the Sonoran Mountains. It was ordered that Geronimo to surrender again, promising him that, after serving prison time in Florida, he and his tribe would be permitted to return to Arizona" (Leider et al. 228). On the Apache's long contained journey from the desert southwest to the humid East Coast, tuberculosis attacked the Apache for the first time. At this time in history, tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in America. Everyone was susceptible; but some were more susceptible than others were. Northern Europeans, who'd been exposed for generations, had acquired some resistance to TB, but populations that had never faced the disease had almost none. The Apaches were held for a time at Fort Marion in St. Augustine. They were crowded together in the run-down barracks; their outhouse was a sandy floor a few feet from the water supply....
