In an effort to end the conflict with the Indians, the U.S. government
began taking many Native Americans as prisoners in 1875 and sending them
to the seventeenth-century dungeons at Fort Marion in St. Augustine,
Florida.  In 1886, Geronimo and his band o f Apaches finally agreed to end
hostilities and move to a reservation.  However, they, too, were sent to
Fort Marion, via San Antonio, where the picture above was taken.  The trip
took twenty-four days and required travel by horse cart, wagon, steamboat,
and train.  Geronimo is pictured third from the right in the front row. 
The conditions in the jails were so terrible that fully a quarter of the
Indians died from tuberculosis.