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Hello alfonzo
The old Apache was Perico - one of Geronimo's last warriors in the Sierra Madre campaign in 1886, and can be seen in most photos taken by CS Fly the photographer, remarkably as the last "hostiles" as "enemy combatants still in the field"; real history and amazing to view. The book you are after is 'Indeh' by Eve Ball - it is fairly easy to get a copy and has a whole chapter regarding the point I'm making.
Apparently he was brought up by Mexicans and spent most of his life in the mountains there. I have seen it detailed in other books that those that remained after Geronimo's surrender and indeed those that never gave up in the first place - mainly remnants of the Nednhi band of Juh, knew of such locations which were also the repositories of emergency food, clothing, weapons, utensils and of course gold/silver depending on who had been relieved of it and how much was there.
There were many attempts by reservation Apaches in the 1920s and 1930s to try and make contact with their kin, but the intervening years had been of utter and brutal hardship for the free ones as well as those in "captivity", and it simply did not happen.
Hope this is of some assistance.
The old Apache was Perico - one of Geronimo's last warriors in the Sierra Madre campaign in 1886, and can be seen in most photos taken by CS Fly the photographer, remarkably as the last "hostiles" as "enemy combatants still in the field"; real history and amazing to view. The book you are after is 'Indeh' by Eve Ball - it is fairly easy to get a copy and has a whole chapter regarding the point I'm making.
Apparently he was brought up by Mexicans and spent most of his life in the mountains there. I have seen it detailed in other books that those that remained after Geronimo's surrender and indeed those that never gave up in the first place - mainly remnants of the Nednhi band of Juh, knew of such locations which were also the repositories of emergency food, clothing, weapons, utensils and of course gold/silver depending on who had been relieved of it and how much was there.
There were many attempts by reservation Apaches in the 1920s and 1930s to try and make contact with their kin, but the intervening years had been of utter and brutal hardship for the free ones as well as those in "captivity", and it simply did not happen.
Hope this is of some assistance.