Geronimo traces the Bedonkohe Apache leader whose long resistance made him one of the best-known figures of the southwestern borderlands. It follows personal loss, raiding, negotiations and repeated departures from reservations amid conflict involving Apache groups, Mexico and the United States.
The biography examines the final pursuit and surrender of 1886, after which Geronimo and other Chiricahua were held as prisoners of war far from their homeland. It also considers his later public appearances and the ways popular culture turned a complex life into a simplified symbol of defiance.
