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The Apache Wars

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The Last Summer of Freedom for the Chiracawa

There was a bounty on Geronimo's head at this point for 25 grand, a lot of money. And I think ever since then, you know, or at least back then, he was really looked down upon for doing that by his fellow American soldiers. So there was, there were only like 37 free Chiracawa at this point that were still down to battle. 18 of them were the warrior types. There were 13 women and six kids, including a couple of infants. These 37 people were on the lamb for five full months with a total of about eight to 10,000 either army, US army or Mexican soldiers or volunteers trying to find them.

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