The Miles-Crook Controversy

Author

Katherine Shepard

Publication Date

1936

Abstract

The accusations and resulting explanations in the Miles-Crook newspaper encounters revolved around four questions. First, had Miles disobeyed his orders in accepting a conditional surrender. The chief difficulty here was that no one seemed able to discover just what terms or promises Miles had made to Geronimo. Second, had not General Miles and Captain Lawton received the credit for the surrender which should have been bestowed upon Lieutenant Gatewood, who with two Chiricahua scouts, sought out the hostile camp and arranged that the Indians should go to the border and give themselves up to Miles. Third, had not Miles, after boasting that Crook's policy was to be reversed, resorted to all of Crook's methods in the end. And fourth, if Geronimo and his band had surrendered as prisoners of war, should not Miles' promise to them that they should not be separated from their families, have been kept inviolate.

Level of Degree

Masters

Degree Name

History

Department Name

History

First Committee Member (Chair)

Lansing B. Bloom

Second Committee Member

George P. Hammond

Third Committee Member

G.S. White

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

Recommended Citation

Shepard, Katherine. "The Miles-Crook Controversy." (1936). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hist_etds/109