Wanted Dead or Alive

After the March 27 conference, General Crook left the Apaches under Lieutenant Maus’s supervision so he could hurry back to Fort Bowie to wi...

Following the battles at The Devil's Backbone ,  General Crook could do nothing but await the passage of “two moons.” Finally, on March...

In the years after his 1886 surrender, Geronimo began the transformation from monster to legend. During the relocation to Fort Sill crowds ...

After Geronimo's surrender to U.S. forces in September 1886, he and his band of Chiricahua Apaches were exiled first to Florida -- where...

I've belatedly posted the anniversaries of Marine 1LT Christian F. Schilt earning the Medal of Honor  during the Sandino manhunt (Januar...

A heavy fog sat upon Crawford’s camp the next morning, January 11. Just as the light of dawn made the terrain around them visible, the sent...

The unsuccessful summer campaign and subsequent  raid by Josannie  led to increasing political pressure on General Crook to produce results....

As historian Robert Utley summarized the first six months of the Geronimo Campaign: “The Sierra Madre campaign of 1885 was an exhausting ...

Recognizing the futility of hunting the Apaches with cavalry and a pack train, in August 1885 Captain Emmet Crawford ordered Lieutenant Brit...

On August 7, Major Wirt Davis’ 4th U.S. Cavalry Apache scouts attacked Geronimo’s camp west of Casas Grandes, Chihuahua. The renegades were ...

At about 9AM, June 23, 1885, Captain Emmett Crawford’s scouts found Chihuahua’s camp* in the Bavispe Mountains northeast of Opunto. The lead...

Upon learning of Geronimo’s escape, General George Crook set in motion a three-tiered strategy to track down Geronimo. First, 100 scouts und...

On June 8, a company of the 4th Cavalry taking part in the pursuit of Geronimo was camped in Guadalupe Canyon when a courier arrived with ne...

After separating from Lieutenant Davis’s scouts at Eagle Creek, Captain Allen Smith led two companies of the 4th Cavalry in pursuit of the C...

The two days after the confronation at Turkey Creek passed without word from Crook.   The Apaches grew increasingly apprehensive, assuming t...

The American Southwest, in the words of an army officer stationed there in the 19 th Century, is “a region in which not only purgatory and ...

More than a century before a $25 million reward was offered for information on Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts -- and almost 125 years to the ...