Geronimo

je-ron'i-mo, an Apache chieftain. He came into notice before the Civil War as the daring and wily leader of a band of Apaches who were the scourge of Arizona and New Mexico. In 1886 he and his followers were penned up in the mountains by General Crook and were forced to surrender, but escaped while on their way to a reservation and took up their old trade of burning and plundering. Finally General Miles trailed Geronimo and his braves from canon to canon and, between starving and fighting, forced them to give up. A number of the prominent Apaches were sent to Fort Pickens. Later Geronimo was held a prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he died in 1908. Geronimo ranks with Red Jacket and Tecumseh as a shrewd, fearless, determined foe of the white. His name is a synonym for atrocity.