In 1886, the United States mobilized some 5,000 soldiers to pursue Geronimo and a small group of Chiricahua Apaches. For months, the desert, the Sierra Madre mountains, and their extraordinary knowledge of the terrain transformed this operation into one of the greatest pursuits of the Apache Wars.

In this documentary, we follow Geronimo's final stand: his escape from the reservations, Apache tactics, Native scouts, the pursuit by George Crook and Nelson Miles, the crucial role of Charles Gatewood, and the final surrender at Skeleton Canyon.

But the story didn't end with the surrender of weapons. The Apaches were sent as prisoners of war far from their lands, and Geronimo died without ever being able to return to Arizona.

A story of resistance, pursuit, survival, and the traumatic end of an era in the American Southwest.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Geronimo's Final Hunt
01:15 Expansion and Reservations
02:33 The Man Behind the Legend
03:20 The Escape That Alarmed Washington
03:55 5,000 Soldiers After the Apaches
05:03 Crook and the Pursuit
07:20 Nelson Miles Changes Strategy
09:42 Gatewood: The Last Attempt
10:55 The Surrender of Skeleton Canyon
11:30 Prisoners of War
12:04 Exile
12:28 Apache Children and Carlisle
12:39 Fort Sill
13:10 Geronimo Becomes a Symbol
13:58 The Final Years
15:01 The End of an Era

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