Später ging er dann nach Amerika wo er bekannt wurde. Dieser Artikel über ihn wurde in einer amerikanischen Zeitung gefunden.

Public enemy by 1885. (Mitchell Daily Republican, Friday, February 12, 1886)

A bad indian

When Hon. Carl Schurz was secretary of the interior, in one of his reports he characterizes the Apaches as "bad Indians." That was several years ago. They have not improved in behavior since. For a year and a half Chief Geronimo and his band of Apaches have been terrorizing the southwest. The exact number of braves he had with him cannot, of course, be exactly known, but it was between twenty and thirty. Over a tract of country as largo as a good-sized state these redskins have been roaming, stealing cattle, horses and food, and murdering and destroying. They knew the country like a fox. They were brave, cunning, remorseless and untiring. After committing a robbery or a murder they fled like the wind, and took refuge in some of the mountain fastnesses they knew so well. If pursued too hotly, a few hours' fast and furious riding took them over the border into old Mexico, where they were safe from the United States soldiery, at least for the time. They were well wined and well mounted. For months, years even, they have been a red vengeance on our border.
It was the task of the lamented Capt. Emmet Crawford to pursue and capture these fiends. Month after mouth he followed them through waterless deserts, through sand and cactus spines into rocky into rocky canyons and over lava beds, till last he ran them down in Mexico.

Latterly the Mexican and United States governments have been co-operating to rid both countries of these pests, Two forces, one of Mexican the other United States soldiers, hemmed Geronimo in between them Jan. 10. Geronimo and all his force were captured, but the brave and tireless Capt. Crawford was killed.
He had with him as guides a company of friendly Apache Indian scouts. The force of these was larger than Geronimo's own. They were the motliest crew that ever started out soldiering. They were taken over the Southern Pacific railway to a point as near the scone of hostilities as possible. They were locked in a car to themselves with a United States lieutenant.
"I suppose you know," said the train conductor to a newspaper correspondent, "that to give them red devils a drink of whisky all around would be to turn into hostiles in hour."
The motley warriors had been given high hats, out of which they had, without exception, torn the crown, so that their hair stood raggedly out at the top. Some of them wore six shirts apiece, and one, the envied of all gloried in drapery made of a red cotton tablecloth.
Geronimo, too, is accustomed to adorn his ugly person in this style. He wears a hat draped with a lady's sash of bright color. Now that he has been caught, it will be a question what to do with him. He and his band belong to what is called the Chiricakua branch of the Apache tribe. The White Mountain Apaches are friendly.
The Apaches used to be the white man's friend and ally, When the truth of history shall be known it will be found that there arc two sides to thy outbreak of 1885. It was not for nothing that Geronimo and his band of scalping savages took the warpath. It was take vengeance for wrongs, and deep wrongs their tribe had suffered at the hands of the conquering white. Breaches of faith go down no better with a savage mind than with a civilized one.
Since Geronimo has been captured let us hope that even the Apaches may be civilized. The Sioux were as bad as they less than twenty-five years ago, and the Sioux are now among the best of good Indians.
And another, less constructive and positive approach to the capture of Apache chief Geronimo, from the Indiana Progress, Thursday, February 11, 1886
The Apache Chief Geronimo and the surviving members of his band, who recently killed by torture and inhuman butchery 170 persons, many of whom were women, are now in custody. The people of Arizona and New Mexico are very indignant, and will oppose the usual course of the military authorities in allowing them to return to their reservations unpunished.
Petitions will be sent to Washington, asking that Geronimo and his followers be tried for murder under the laws of the territories where his crimes were committed.

Here is another article that appeared on Friday, April 23, 1858 in the The Athens Messenger under the title "The Dona Ann Affair."

Dr. M. Steck, United States agent for the Apache Indians, arrived in Santa Fe on Thursday evening last, looking well and hearty. We learn from Dr. S. that the Indians of his agency are peaceably disposed, and that no outrages have been committed by them since the Gila war. He officially reports the revolting massacre of eight Apaches in Dona Ann county, on the 7th of February, which we have heretofore noticed in the Gazette. In addition to the brutal mutilation of the bodies of the women who were murdered, by cutting off their breasts, tearing out their tongues, and slicing up their hearts, another case occurred of equal brutality. An old Indian woman, at least 60 years of age, was shot through the body, stabbed in the back five different times, and then suspended by one foot from the pummel of the saddle by a rope, and dragged at the full speed of the horse down a hill for 400 yards. - She was then loosened and left on the ground for dead. After the Mexicans had left, the other Indian women gathered around her, and ascertaining who were present, and that her tormentors had gone, she arose and walked off with her companions!
While this wholescale butcher is the most brutal that has ever been perpetrated upon the Apaches by the people of the Mesilla, it is but one of the many outrages committed. On various occasions heretofore, they have murdered Indians of this tribe without provocation; and not one of the murderers have ever been brought to justice. 

Curiously enough, it is hard to find news reports from 1858 about the massacre committed against the tribe of Geronimo. Newspapers emphasized the killing of whites much more at that time. Among the many hate-monging reports of whiet families murdered by Apaches, only a few dared to give account of the reasons behind the brutality of the "redskins".

The following article contains the first notices of the vicious Apache Chief Geronimo, in relation to his succession to the leadership of his tribe and negotiations about a hostage. The photograph of Geronimo is not part of the original article.

Charley McComas

DEMISO, N. M., October 11.-D. H. Leroy and George Wilson, who left here September 19th with a Mexican merchant for the purpose of rescuing Charley McComas, returned to-day. Arriving at Casa Grande they found that Juh had been drowned, while drunk, on the 21st of September, by falling off his horse into the Casa Grande River. The Indians elected Geronimo chief, ignoring Juh's son. This made a disturbance among the Indians, audit was difficult to treat with them, and matters were more complicated by the massing of Mexican troops, and attempts by them to get the Indians drunk preparatory to a massacre.

Finally communications were opened with Geronimo, who was anxious to trade for cartridges and offered to give a horse for every ten. His brother and men, he said, were en route for the San Carlos agency to get cartridges and recruits. After two interviews the subject of the captive boy was broached and according to Mr. Leroy the child is certainly alive, and with Juh's widow. Geronimo finally appointed an interview at a stated place, where he met Wilson and an interpreter. Wilson had nearly one hundred bolts of calico and some other articles which he was ready to offer for the boy, with promises of 200 cartridges on

final delivery. Geronimo said that Juh's widow did not want to give the child up but that he would compel her to if he could get the cartridges in exchange. While the talk was proceeding one of Governor Torres' chief scouts was seen approaching, and Geronimo, fearing treachery, broke up the interview, saying, "You go to your house; I to my camp. "Wilson, in alarm lest he should not get the boy, offered to go with Geronimo, but was not allowed to do so.

Subsequent attempts to treat for the boy failed, owing to the proximity of Mexican troops and the local authorities interfering to prevent Leroy and Wilson from meeting the Indians. Leroy says that Geronimo claims to have l50 warriors. He counted seventy-five at one of the interviews.

There are 600 Mexican troops at Casa Grande. Leroy and Wilson are well-known citizens, and their report is worthy of credence. Further steps will be immediately taken for the rescue of the child. 

A few weeks after Geronimo's election to Apache Chief, and the failure of the negotiations, the indians prove their viciousness.

Old Juh Alive.

Santa Fee, N. M,, Oct. 31- Advices from Deming say Juh, head chief of the Apaches, is not dead, but is now raiding in southern Chihuahua, Jas. Lepas, a Mexican who has a half brother with Chief Geronimo, reports that little Charley McComas was recently killed by Indians. The Indians who have been hovering around both sides the boundary line having been disappointed in receiving reinforcements from the San Carlos reservation, now split up into small raiding parties, and a good many horses have been stolen from various places.
 

A typical article about the crimes of the Indians - many similar articles appeared in contemporary newspapers every day.

Apache Indians on the Warpath

(...) The Apache Indians are again committing depredations in Sonora. On January 29 they killed two men and stole horses and cattle near Chinipas. On the 30th they seriously wounded a Mexican vaquero near Tituachi, stole horses of American prospectors and the stock of Leonard Gomez, Perfect of the Arispe district.
The authorities have sent a force in pursuit, but no news has been received from them yet. The Apaches are believed to he crossing the border in several places simultaneously. For the past few days they have been depredating in the Sahuaripa district and killed Dolore Lopez and wounded Lorenza Melendez near Baniosi. Several bodies of Mexicans have been found on the Mexican soil, near the border.
At Maritana the Indians killed the same day Jesus Duarto, and another near Chinavuachi. The mail carrier of the Sahuaripa route is missing, and is believed to have been killed. Large numbers of cattle were stolen from Lospiedias Delumbre. The Federal force is in pursuit and another force is seeking to head off the marauders. Colonel Garcia, with a large force is also out.
Oklahoma City, Okla. - Maj. H. L. Scott, representing the war department, and Lieut. Ernest Stocker, Anadarko agent, representing the department of the interior, were appointed to select the new homes for the 269 Apache prisoners of war held by the United States government at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
The last session of congress granted liberty to these Indians, after holding them prisoners of war for twenty-six years, and the committee of two will select for them an open reservation somewhere in the west, but the probabilities are that their new home will not be within the boundaries of either New Mexico or Arizona. A reservation in either of those states might incite in the savage Apache Indians a memory of their forefathers' conquests and defeats, within those boundaries, and render their reimprisonment necessary.
The Apache tribe is one of the few tribes that never assimilated the white man's way of living, and since the year of 1858 have not been on friendly terms with any member of the white race.
In that year one division of the six branches into which the tribe is divided, went from the eastern line of Arizona, where they were ranging, into Old Mexico on a trading expedition. When near the outpost of the Kas-ki-yeh they camped, and, leaving their women and children, proceeded toward Casa Grande. Citizens from that town met them and entered into a treaty of peace with them, though the Mexican government had placed a price upon their heads, paying $100 for a warrior, $50 for a squaw and $25 for a dead Indian child.
While in Casa Grande, trading, Mexican soldiers took advantage of their absence from camp and set up on the defenseless women and children, killing al within camp. When the warriors returned in the evening the Mexican soldiers opened fire upon them and the Apaches, being armed with bows and arrows, were exterminated, excepting Geronimo, who at that time was a young brave, and one other Apache. In this massacre Geronimo lost his wife and child, and, according to his own statement made after he became a prisoner of war of the United States, he swore eternal hostility to all Mexicans.
Geronimo returned to Arizona and sought aid from the other five Apache tribes, in seeking revenge on the Mexicans. The citizens of Casa Grande sent him a disclaimer of all knowledge of the massacre of his people after they had entered into the trading treaty with his band in Old Mexico, but Geronimo could never understand how it was the citizens had no control over these acts of the soldiers, and from that year until 1886 made annual raids upon the settlements within 300 miles of the northern boundary of Mexico.
The Apaches, while on their excursions to Mexico, ran off some cattle that were in charge of white cowboys, and shortly thereafter United States troops made their appearances, and the Apaches always professed to believe they came in response to the Mexican government's appeal for aid in exterminating the Apaches.
Geronimo died about eighteen months ago, and most of the old race of warriors had preceded him to the grave, and now the general government believes the younger generation can be once more trusted to run at large on an open reservation.

The failure of the Apache Indians to assimilate the ways of civilization which finally resulted in their becoming prisoners of war, was no doubt due in a large measure to the ascendancy Geronimo had over the members of his tribe, whom he kept constantly avenging the wrongs he and his relatives suffered at the hands of the Mexicans and Americans.

Goyaałé (Geronimo) was born to the Bedonkohe band of the Apache, near Turkey Creek, a tributary of the Gila River in what is now the state of New Mexico, then part of Mexico, but which his family considered Bedonkohe land.
Geronimo's father, Tablishim, and mother, Juana, educated him according to Apache traditions. He married a woman from the Chiricauhua band of Apache; they had three children. On March 5, 1851, a company of 400 soldiers from Sonora led by Colonel Jose Maria Carrasco attacked Geronimo's camp outside Janos while the men were in town trading. Among those dead were Geronimo's wife, Alope, his children, and mother. His chief, Mangas Coloradas, sent him to Cochise's band for help in revenge against the Mexicans. It was the Mexicans who named him Geronimo. This appellation stemmed from a battle in which he repeatedly attacked Mexican soldiers with a knife, ignoring a deadly hail of bullets. In reference to the Mexicans' plea to Saint Jerome, the name stuck.
The first Apache raids on Sonora appear to have taken place during the late 17th century. To counter the early Apache raids on Spanish settlements, presidios were established at Janos (1685) in Chihuahua and at Fronteras (1690) in northern Opata country. In 1835, Mexico had placed a bounty on Apache scalps. Two years later Mangas Coloradas or Dasoda-hae (Red Sleeves) became principal chief and war leader and began a series of retaliatory raids against the Mexicans. Apache raids on Mexican villages were so numerous and brutal that no area was safe.
While Geronimo said he was never a chief, he was a military leader. As a Chiricahua Apache, this meant he was also a spiritual leader. He consistently urged raids and war upon many Mexican and later U.S. groups.
He married Chee-hash-kish and had two children, Chappo and Dohn-say. Then he took another wife, Nana-tha-thtith, with whom he had one child. He later had a wife named Zi-yeh at the same time as another wife, She-gha, one named Shtsha-she and later a wife named Ih-tedda. Some of his wives were captured, such as the young Ih-tedda. Wives came and went, overlapping each other, being captured and added to the family, lost, or even given up, as Geronimo did with Ih-tedda when he and his band surrendered. At that time he kept his wife She-gha but abandoned the younger wife, Ih-tedda. Geronimo’s last wife was Azul.
Though outnumbered, Geronimo fought against both Mexican and United States troops and became famous for his daring exploits and numerous escapes from capture from 1858 to 1886. At the end of his military career, he led a small band of 38 men, women, and children. They evaded 5,000 U.S. troops (one fourth of the army at the time) and many units of the Mexican army for a year. His band was one of the last major forces of independent Indian warriors who refused to acknowledge the United States Government in the American West. This came to an end on September 4, 1886, when Geronimo surrendered to United States Army General Nelson A. Miles at Skeleton Canyon, Arizona.
Geronimo and other warriors were sent as prisoners to Fort Pickens, Florida, and his family was sent to Fort Marion. They were reunited in May 1887, when they were transferred to Mount Vernon Barracks in Alabama for five years. In 1894, they were moved to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. In his old age, Geronimo became a celebrity. He appeared at fairs, including the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, and sold souvenirs and photographs of himself. However, he was not allowed to return to the land of his birth. He rode in President Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 inaugural parade. He died of pneumonia at Fort Sill in 1909 and was buried at the Apache Indian Prisoner of War Cemetery there.