Report Of Brigadier-General Miles & Brigadier-General Crook Of The Field Operations Against Hostile Chiricahua Indians Led By Geronimo. [Extract From The Secretary Of War's Report To Congress]

MILES, BRIGADIER-GENERAL NELSON & BRIGADIER-GENERAL GEORGE CROOK

Publication: Government Printing Office, 1886, Washington

First edition of text and map. 8vo. Bound into a cloth binder with leather label on spine and titles stamped in gilt, 147-196 pp. Large folding map 64 x 73.5 cm. [25 1/4" x 29"] titled: "Outline Map of the Field of Operations Against Hostile Chiricahua Indians Showing Operations From April 12th, 1886 to the Date of Their Surrender September 4th, 1886." Scale is 15 miles to 1 inch. The text is important as it thoroughly details the chase but more important is the operations map. The map covers all of Arizona and New Mexico south of 34 degrees north, from Phoenix on the west and not quite to Roswell on the east, and from northern Sonora to well below Hermosillo and extreme west Texas. The legend lists Department Headquarters Temporary, Military Posts Garrisoned posts disbanded, Indian Fights, Roads and Trails for Wagon or by Pack Mule. At least forty armed forts, camps and posts located as well as innumerable railroad stops, ranches and watering holes. In late March, 1886, Geronimo and his small band surrendered, hopefully for the last time to Lt. Colonel George F. Crook, but within days they bolted back to Mexico, having been convinced by a lying bootlegger that they would be murdered as soon as they crossed into the United States. It became the task of Brigadier General Nelson Miles to recapture them. Five months and 1600 miles later Geronimo and his band were tracked down in his Sonoran Mountain camp and induced to surrender in early September at Skeleton Canyon. Geronimo and his band were shipped to Florida, never to see Arizona Territory again. A rare and uncommon map. The report was privately printed by General Nelson A. Miles without the map. See Streeter Sale 534 for information on that issue. Minor splitting to the map neatly repaired by a master paper conservator, text clean, else a near fine copy.

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