Geronimo — "General Crook said to me, 'Why did you leave the reservation?' I said: 'You told…"

General Crook said to me, 'Why did you leave the reservation?' I said: 'You told me that I might live in the reservation the same as white people lived. One year I raised a crop of corn, and gathered and stored it, and the next year I put in a crop of oats, and when the crop was almost ready to harvest, you told your soldiers to put me in prison, and if I resisted, to kill me. If I had been let alone I would now have been in good circumstances, but instead of that you and the Mexicans are hunting me with soldiers.'
Geronimo — Geronimo Modern · Apache leader

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From 'Geronimo's Story of His Life', explaining his reasons for leaving the reservation to General Crook.

Date: 1886 (conversation), 1909 (publication)

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