Correspondence and Transcripts Concerning the Fate of Geronimo and the Chiricahua Apaches, 1886-1890

"I believe now that [Geronimo] was and is a depraved rascal whose neck I should like to stretch."--Capt. John Bourke

How the U.S. government dealt with the problem of capturing and then deciding what to do with Geronimo and the Chiricahua Apaches told through dispatches from Fort Bowie, AZ, responses from Washington, reports from the field, and transcripts of meetings with the Indians at Canon de los Embudos, Mexico; Mount Vernon Barracks, Alabama; and Washington, DC. Major actors are General George Crook, Lieutenant General P. H. Sheridan, Captain John G. Bourke, President Benjamin Harrison, Secretary of War William Endicott, and Geronimo, Chatto, Natchez, and Ka-e-a-tena.