Geronimo The Apache Chief

M. E. FLY

Publication: The Adobe Corral of the Westerners, 1986, Tucson, Arizona

First Edition Thus. #104 of the Limited Centennial Edition of 500 Numbered copies. Stiff Printed Wrappers. Oblong Quarto. Facsimile Reprint of 1905 or 1906 original. No pagination (32pp.). Introduction by Bruce J. Dinges. "The Flys--Tombstone Photographers" by Joan Metzger. Six pages of Text, followed by 26 full-page Plates. The plates are described as such: Scenes in Geronimo's Camp The Apache Outlaw and Murderer. Taken before the Surrender to Gen. Cook(sp), March 27, 1886, in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico. Escaped March 30, 1886. The next four pages are text entitled: The Story of Geronimo. This is in-turn followed by a section comprised of 25 famous images of photographs taken by Camillus Sidney Fly, typically referred to as C. S. Fly. The series of images taken by Fly in March of 1886 projected the Tombstone photographer into national prominence. Fly and an assistant named Chase accompanied Brigadier General George Crook and his command as they tracked Geronimo's band into Mexico. In Canon de los Embudos, just below the international boundary, Crook and Geronimo met to arrange the Apaches' surrender. Fly photographed the Indians in their camp and at the meeting. He did not hesitate to ask the warriors to shift positions or turn their heads to improve the composition of the pictures. The photos were the first ever taken of "hostile" Apaches in a natural setting. Fly died in 1901 and in 1905 or 1906, Mrs. M. E. Fly published this collection of her husband's famous photographs in a book she called Geronimo, The Apache Chief. As New condition.

Inventory Number: 53080