WHO HAS GERONIMO'S SKULL?

[W. Gray]

He is the fellow who made the famous speech to his people" "I will fight no more forever."

Guess who captured him? Our own General Oliver Otis Howard of Howard, Kansas, fame.

Chief Joseph was in Elk County once.

After he and his people were trying to escape from the northwest in Oregon, I think, and trying to get to Canada. General Howard caught them about fifty miles from the Canadian border. After their capture, they were sent from Montana to Fort Leavenworth for a while and then marched south down through Elk County to Indian Territory.

One of the Howard newspapers reported the event.

I know the Army eventually let him go back to the northwest but I do not know about the bulk of his people.

[W. Gray]

I forgot to add that Chief Joseph was Nez Perce.

[sixdogsmom]

You are right, my error. Nez Perce is correct. I did not know that he had been in Elk County though. Small world indeed, and the part about General Howard, Don would have liked knowing that.