They were the terror of Arizona and New Mexico, yet they were not entirely to blame.

Government ill-treatment of Cochise, the great chief of the Chiricaua Apaches, had set the whole tribe on the war-path for ten years.

A military company, called the Tombstone Toughs, was organized in Southern Arizona to wipe them out, but accomplished nothing.

Finally, America's greatest Indian fighter, General Crook, was sent to campaign in Arizona in 1885.

The celebrated chiefs, Geronimo and Natchez, broke out again and killed some twenty-nine white people in New Mexico and thirty-six in Arizona before Crook pushed them into the Sierra Madre Mountains in Sonora, where at last Geronimo surrendered.