"You are the false White-Eye who came to the Chiricahua Reservation a year ago and broke the peace treaty made by the Great Chief (Cochise) and Taglito (Tom Jeffords) and the one-arm general (O.O. Howard). Do not talk to me about breaking treaties-you and your sick brain!"
So said by Geronimo, upon his capture and being put in chains at Ojo Caliente, New Mexico, to John Clum April 21, 1877. Events went down hill for Geronimo after this verbal exchange. It would end with a train ride to Florida in early September 1886 after nearly 5,000 US Army personnel chased him and 30 other starving Chiricahuas (mostly women and children) in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico.
Source; The Apache Wars (pg. 223) by Paul Andrew Hutton published 2016 by Crown Books.
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