History and government of New Mexico . peating riflesand well supplied with ammuni-tion secured through unscrupu-lous white traders. After the removal of the Nav-ajos to their reservation in thenorthwest and the Mescalerosand other Apaches to theirs atFort Stanton there was a tempo-rary lull in Indian troubles. Inthe seventies there was compar-ative peace. Events proved,General George H. Crook however> that it was only the calm before the gathering storm. In 1879 the storm Victorio and his band of Apache braves left the Mes-calero Reservation and went on the warpath. For the nex
History and government of New Mexico . peating riflesand well supplied with ammuni-tion secured through unscrupu-lous white traders. After the removal of the Nav-ajos to their reservation in thenorthwest and the Mescalerosand other Apaches to theirs atFort Stanton there was a tempo-rary lull in Indian troubles. Inthe seventies there was compar-ative peace. Events proved,General George H. Crook however> that it was only the calm before the gathering storm. In 1879 the storm Victorio and his band of Apache braves left the Mes-calero Reservation and went on the warpath. For the nextfour years they spread terror throughout southern NewMexico and Arizona, until Victorio was killed in 1883. 216. Geronimos Raids. — Two years later Geronimo(ha-rone-mo), one of the greatest chiefs of the Apachenation, fled from the San Carlos Reservation in Arizonaand took up the bloody work of Victorio, terrorizing aneven wider region extending into northern Mexico. Operat-ing at the head of a band of mountain outlaws in a country. THE CIVIL WAR 183 where the Apaches knew every trail, water hole, andmountain pass, he succeeded in beating off, and keeping outof the way of, American and Mexican forces many timeslarger than his own. In the spring of 1886 General George H. Crook, worn-out with hard campaigning against Victorio and Geronimoand humiliated by the escape of Geronimo after capture,asked to be relieved from command. Then the Apachetroubles entered their final stage. President Clevelandgave the command to General Nelson A. Miles with ordersto capture Geronimo and round up every Apache in theSouthwest on reservations. By the end of the summerthe braves were captured, and Geronimo, the last greatApache chief and warrior, gave up the fight. The blood-thirsty Apaches, who had fought the Spaniards for threehundred years and had not been subdued, tried the mettleof our army as no others ever did. The governments policy of placing the wild tribes onreservations and keeping t
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