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Geronimo (center) with Chiricahua Apache band Photographer: Camillus S. Fly Date: 1886? Negative Number 003766

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Chief Geronimo and his followers waiting for battle. 

Photo by C. S. Fly, March 1886.

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The Wild West Immortalised: Through the Lens of Tombstone's Resident Photographers

Pictured is Tombstone's Hotel Nobles. According to the Arizona state Library, the original glass plate negative of this photo was damaged in

“… keep an eagle eye out for that C.S. Fly watermark if ever you come across a batch of antique photographs from the Wild West.”

Fly’s photo studio was next door to the OK Corral.

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Geronimo, Chiricahua Apache.

Photographer Camillus S. Fly was known for his exclusive documention of the 1886 campaign against Geronimo, for his recording of many of the badmen of the decades of the 1880s and 1890s, and for his presence at the gunfight involving the Earps, the Clantons, and Doc Holliday at the OK Corral in Tombstone. Late in his career he also served as sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona.

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