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05 - Dread Apache- That Early-Day Scourge of the Southwest by Merrill Pingree Freeman · Dread Apache- That Early-Day Scourge of the Southwest

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  Speaker 1: Section five of the Dread Apache That Early Day Scourge
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  Speaker 1: of the Southwest by doctor Merle Pingree Freeman. This Lieberbox
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. Brave Little Johnny Bartlett
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  Speaker 1: through Geronimo's surrenders to General Miles, Brave Little Johnny Bartlett.
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  Speaker 1: Bartlett kept the Indians off until dark, when it is
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  Speaker 1: probable they left, as they were not seen again. Soon
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  Speaker 1: after dark, Bartlett told Johnny that he must go to
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  Speaker 1: Oroblanco and notify the people of the shooting of Shanahan
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  Speaker 1: and himself, and that Shanahan was probably dying. When Little
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  Speaker 1: Johnny was told that he must do this, like the
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  Speaker 1: little hero he was, he simply said all right, Papa,
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  Speaker 1: and immediately started, first taking off his shoes and going
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  Speaker 1: barefoot the first mile or two to avoid making any sound. Johnny,
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  Speaker 1: on foot, reached Oro Blanco, eight miles away about two
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  Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning and gave the alarm. A posse
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  Speaker 1: was immediately made up and started for the scene of
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  Speaker 1: the troubles, where they found Shanahan dead and Bartlet wounded,
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  Speaker 1: and the Indians evidently gone. General Crook relieved. General George
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  Speaker 1: Crook came to Arizona in eighteen seventy, remaining in command
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  Speaker 1: of the department here until eighteen seventy five, when he
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  Speaker 1: was transferred to the Department of the Platte, and was
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  Speaker 1: reassigned and returned to Arizona in eighteen eighty two. In
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  Speaker 1: eighteen eighty six, evidently taking exception to an implied criticism
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  Speaker 1: from the Department at Washington, and as he expressed it,
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  Speaker 1: having spent nearly eight years of the hardest work of
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  Speaker 1: his life in this department, he asked to be relieved.
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  Speaker 1: Crook was criticized in Arizona at the time for a
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  Speaker 1: too abiding faith in the loyalty of his Indian Scouts,
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  Speaker 1: and many of us believe this criticism to be fully justified.
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  Speaker 1: There is hardly a doubt that much of the ammunition
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  Speaker 1: used by the renegades was supplied them by these same scouts.
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  Speaker 1: It was but a few months prior to Crook's being
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  Speaker 1: relieved that Captain Crawford, a zealous and gallant officer, while
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  Speaker 1: engaged in his thankless task of ridding their country of
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  Speaker 1: these pests, was treacherously killed by Mexican irregular troops in
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  Speaker 1: the Sierra Madre Mountains. It is true that these irregular
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  Speaker 1: troops were terra humerie Indians, possibly as wild and uncontrollable
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  Speaker 1: as the Apaches themselves, and that they may extenuate the
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  Speaker 1: treachery to some extent, but the fact remains that the
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  Speaker 1: officers in command were not Indians but Mexicans. Geronimo surrenders
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  Speaker 1: to General Miles. On April second, eighteen eighty six, General
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  Speaker 1: Miles Superseding Crook took command of the Department of Arizona,
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  Speaker 1: and in his personal recollections he speaks of finding here,
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  Speaker 1: stationed at Fort Huachuca, a fair haired, blue eyed young
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  Speaker 1: man of great intellect, manly qualities, and resolute spirit, a
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  Speaker 1: splendid type of American manhood. This fair haired, blue eyed
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  Speaker 1: young man of eighteen eighty six was at the time
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  Speaker 1: assistant surgeon in the Army. He is now Major General
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  Speaker 1: Leonard Wood, late Chief of Staff U S Army. On
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  Speaker 1: the fourth of September, following Miles assuming command, Geronimo and
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  Speaker 1: his band surrendered to him, and on September eighth they
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  Speaker 1: left Fort Bowie for Fort Marion, Florida. The point of
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  Speaker 1: surrender to Myles was at Skeleton Canyon in Mexico, about
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  Speaker 1: sixty five miles south of Fort Bowie. The surrender of
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  Speaker 1: Geronimo may be fixed as the date of the termination
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  Speaker 1: of the many years of warfare between the Whites and
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  Speaker 1: the Apaches as a tribe, a warfare marked with a
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  Speaker 1: cruelty on the part of the Apaches probably unparalleled in
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  Speaker 1: the history of the four hundred years of strife between
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  Speaker 1: the Whites on the one side and the Red Man
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  Speaker 1: on the other, And of Section five