The Last Wild Apache

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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On September 4th, 1886, the mighty Apache leader Geronimo surrendered to the U.S. Army. The last American Indian warrior to formally surrender to the United States. And with him, so went the Indian Wars. The buffalo were gone, the railroads and churches were here to stay, and the wild west was – for the most part – over. But what if I were to tell you that not all of the Apache surrendered and that there were a few holdouts that not only continued to live free but continued to make war with their enemies as well? For the next 45 years! This is the true story of the last of the free and wild Apache. Check out the website for more true tales from the Old West https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/ Join Patreon for ad-free and bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wildwestextra Merchandise! https://www.teepublic.com/user/wild-west-extravaganza Book Recommendations! https://www.amazon.com/shop/wildwestextravaganza/list/YEHGNY7KFAU7?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d Time Magazine article from 1929 on Francisco Fimbres - https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,738252,00.html White Chief May Have Led Last of the Free Apache into 20th Century | Santa Fe New Mexican - https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/trail_dust/white-chief-may-have-led-last-free-apaches-into-20th-century/article_34e715fd-fb8c-534d-a437-c51256507e54.html Mexicans Recall Last Apaches Living in Sierra | Seattle Times - https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19970907&slug=2558969 A Savage Land | Thesis by Margery Hunt Watkinson - https://keep.lib.asu.edu/items/158479 The Last Apache “Broncho” | Thesis by Leah Candolin Cook - https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=hist_etds Meet the Geronimos | Indian Country Today - https://ictnews.org/archive/meet-the-geronimos-descendants-talk-about-living-with-the-legacy The Last Free Apaches | Cowboys & Indians Magazine - https://www.cowboysindians.com/2016/02/the-last-free-apaches/ Tribe by Sebastian Junger - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1455566381?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamzjoshta02-20&creativeASIN=1455566381&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.371PYP4VWVHQJ&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d_qv_asin Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0684857537?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamzjoshta02-20&creativeASIN=0684857537&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.2H6WTE0CNW87P&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d_qv_asin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	On May 6, 1877, just 10 months after the Battle of Little Bighorn, the legendary crazy horse
0:37.0	led nearly 900 Lakota and Cheyenne to Fort Robinson, Nebraska.
0:41.6	It was time to surrender.
0:43.6	Five months later, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce would do the same, to fight no more forever.
0:49.6	Sittin Bull would hold out until July of 1881 when he, too, would lay down his arms.
0:55.5	Then finally,
1:01.6	on September 4, 1886, the mighty Apache leader, Geronimo, surrendered to the U.S. Army in Skeleton Canyon, present-day southeastern Arizona, the last American Indian war chief to
1:07.5	formally surrender to the United States. And with Geronimo, so went the Indian Wars.
1:13.8	The Buffalo were gone, the railroads and churches were here to stay, and the Wild West, for the
1:19.1	most part, was over. But what if I were to tell you that not all of the Apache surrendered,
1:24.9	that there were a few holdouts who not only continue to live free,
1:27.9	but continue to make war with their enemies as well. For the next 45 years, my name's Josh,
1:34.8	and you're listening to the Wild West extravaganza. Francisco Feinbrace had a score to settle.
1:52.1	And I gotta say, after hearing his story, I don't blame it.
1:55.5	It was his great misfortune to witness a small group of Apache suddenly attack his pregnant wife, Maria.
2:02.1	Sauri yanked off her horse and stabbed multiple times before having her throat slit. Her still bleeding body
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