. Geronimo's story of his life . Catilina range of mountains in Ari-zona, met a white man driving a mule pack 69 GERONIMO train. When we first saw him he had al-ready seen us, and was riding at full tilt upthe canon. We examined his train andfound that his mules were all loaded withcheese. We put them in with the other trainand resumed our journey. We dd not at-tempt to trail the driver and I am sure hedid not try to follow us. In two days we arrived at home. ThenMangus-Colorado, our chief, assembled thetribe. We gave a feast, divided the spoils,and danced all night. Some of the packmules were
. Geronimo's story of his life . Catilina range of mountains in Ari-zona, met a white man driving a mule pack 69 GERONIMO train. When we first saw him he had al-ready seen us, and was riding at full tilt upthe canon. We examined his train andfound that his mules were all loaded withcheese. We put them in with the other trainand resumed our journey. We dd not at-tempt to trail the driver and I am sure hedid not try to follow us. In two days we arrived at home. ThenMangus-Colorado, our chief, assembled thetribe. We gave a feast, divided the spoils,and danced all night. Some of the packmules were killed and eaten. This time after our return we kept outscouts so that we would know if Mexicantroops should attempt to follow us. On the third day our scouts came into campand reported JVIexican cavalry dismountedand approaching our settlement. All ourwarriors were in camp. Mangus-Coloradotook command of one division and I of theother. We hoped to get possession of theirhorses, then surround the troops in the 70 m O » R o D 5. SUCCESSFUL RAIDS mountains, and destroy the whole we were unable to do, for they, too, hadscouts. However, within four hours afterwe started we had killed ten troopers witlithe loss of only one man, and the Mexicancavalry was in full retreat, followed bythirty armed Apaches, who gave them norest until they were far inside the Mexi-can country. No more troops came thatwinter. For a long time we had plenty of provi-sions, plenty of blankets, and plenty ofclothing. We also had plenty of cheese andsugar. Another summer (18G3) I selected threewarriors and went on a raid into went south into Sonora, camping in theSierra de Sahuaripa JMountains. Aboutforty miles west of Casa Grande is a smallvillage in the mountains, called by the In-dians Crassanas. We camped near thisplace and concluded to make an attack. Wehad noticed that just at midday no one 71 GERONIMO seemed to be stirring; so we planned to makeour attack at the noon hour. The
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