same time making him a symbol of thevanishing frontier. It was only with the help of other Apache scouts that the cavalryat last cornered Geronimo and negotiated his surrender. Geronimo, whohad left the army concentration camps twice before, returned to thefences and lived until he was old by learning to sign his name inEnglish and selling his autographs at 'wild west' shows. Sufferingfrom tuberculosis and pneumonia, Geronimo died pathetically on a winternight, alone, after falling from his horse. He had had a vision thathe would die astride a horse. There is so much about Geronimo that is appealing as a story.Geronimo the Man was a brilliant personal leader, charismatic andproud, and immensely spiritual--a hero in the real sense. The plightof the Apache, like the story of Wounded Knee, was for those who stayedin the reserves, one of suffering and inhumanity. As Geronimo'sexploits became daily fare in the newspapers, the American government'sIndian policy became the subject of political machinations thatextended even to the President. The hunt for Geronimo, himself, ofcourse, is the classic David vs. Goliath story become life.. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/8962/factab.html Apache. They set up camp on the outskirts of the pueblos, dressed in animal skins, used dogs as pack animals, and pitched tentlike dwellings made of brush or hide, called wikiups. They exchanged buffalo hides, tallow and meat, bones that could be worked into needles and scrapers, and salt from the desert with the Pueblos for pottery, cotton, blankets, turquoise, corn and other goods. But at times they simply saw what they wanted and took it. They became known among the Pueblo villages by another name, apachu, "the enemy". However, the Apache and Pueblos managed to maintain generally peaceful relations. But the arrival...
