Story of Geronimo

He became a legend in his own time. Geronimo, the Apache warrior whose name alone sent settlers and soldiers fleeing, was not born a chief but forged into one by grief and fire. When Mexican soldiers slaughtered his mother, wife and three children in 1858, the quiet hunter transformed into the most feared adversary the American Southwest had ever seen. For three decades, he led his people in a desperate, brilliant campaign against two nations, raiding Mexican provinces and American settlements across Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas with a ferocity that spawned a thousand campfire stories. He was chased, cornered, captured and escaped again and again, his genius for guerrilla warfare confounding the finest generals the U.S. Army could send against him. When he finally surrendered in 1886, it was not because he had been defeated but because there was no one left to fight beside him. This is the story of the man who refused to submit, whose legend still burns bright across the canyons and mesas where he once moved like a ghost.