Geronimo ~ The Legends Traditional Cache
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The Circular Walk was created in 1996 by Adlington Conservation
Volunteers. There is no start or finish to the walk, you may join
or leave at any point. There are several caches that you can pick
up along the way as well as the 9 that we have placed. We did the
walk in two parts but it can easily be done as one circular walk.
It can be very muddy in wet weather and there are cow fields but
when we placed them the cows were not in the fields, but the
evidence was there.
Geronimo, a member of the Bedonkohe Apache tribe, was born in
Arizona in 1823. His original name was Goyahkla (He Who Yawns).
Mangas Coloradas and the Bedonkohe moved to Janos. In 1850, while
the men were away, the Mexicans killed the camp's women and
children. This included Geronimo's mother, his wife and three
children. During the revenge attacks that took place on the
Mexicans he was given the name of Geronimo. Geronimo became a war
leader and in 1858 Geronimo and his warriors won a great victory at
Namaquipa. The discovery of gold at Pinos Altos, New Mexico,
increased the number of Americans travelling through Apache land.
This resulted in attacks by war chiefs such as Geronimo and
Cochise. This included the attack at Apache Pass on 14th July,
1862. In 1876 the American government ordered the Chiricahuas from
their mountain homeland to the San Carlos Reservation. Geronimo
refused to go and over the next few years he led a small band of
warriors that raided settlements in Arizona. Geronimo also attacked
American troops in the Whetstone Mountains, Arizona, on 9th
January, 1877. This was followed by a rare defeat in the Leitendorf
Mountains. Geronimo was captured when entering the Ojo Caliente
Reservation in New Mexico. Geronimo was eventually released and by
April 1878 he was leading war parties in Mexico. The following year
Geronimo surrendered and settled on the San Carlos Reservation.
However, in 1881 Juh and Geronimo and their people left the
reservation and headed for the Sierra Madre. In 1882 they carried
out their most ambitious raid of all when they attacked San Carlos.
After the death of Juh, Geronimo became the leader of the Apache
warriors. He continued to carry out raids until he took part in
peace talks with General George Crook. Crook was criticized for the
way he was dealing with the situation and as a result he asked to
be relieved of his command. General Nelson Miles replaced Crook and
attempted to defeat Geronimo by military means. This strategy was
also unsuccessful and eventually he resorting to Crook's strategy
of offering a negotiated deal. In September 1886 Geronimo signed a
peace treaty with Miles and the last of the Indian Wars was over.
Geronimo and his people were taken to Florida and Alabama before
eventually settling in Oklahoma. Ace Daklugie and S. M. Barrett
worked with Geronimo on his autobiography, Geronimo's Story of His
Life in 1906. Geronimo died at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, on 17th
February, 1909.
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