Post-1887 Apache Wars period

{{Short description|Campaign period}}

{{Infobox military conflict

|conflict=Post-1887 period

|partof=the Apache Wars

|image=File:Farny 50.jpg

|caption=Renegade Apaches by Henry Farny

|date=1887–1924

|place=Southwest United States, Northwestern Mexico

|result=United States/Mexican victory

|combatant1={{flag|United States}}
{{flag|Mexico}}

|combatant2=Apache

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|commander2=

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{{Campaignbox Apache Wars}}

{{Campaignbox Apache-Mexico Wars}}

{{Campaignbox American Indian Wars (1898-1918)}}

The post-1887 Apache Wars period of the Apache Wars refers to campaigns by the United States and Mexico against the Apaches.

After the surrender of Geronimo in 1886, Apache warriors continued warfare against Americans and Mexicans. The 10th Cavalry and 4th Cavalry forces under First Lieutenant James W. Watson pursued mounted Apache warriors north of Globe, Arizona, along the Salt River. Sergeant James T. Daniels, Company L., 4th Cavalry and Sergeant William McBryar, Troop K., 10th Cavalry, are the last-known recipients of the Medal of Honor for actions during the Apache Wars. Both were cited for "extreme courage and heroism" while under attack by hostile Apaches, on March 7, 1890. Sergeant Y. B. Rowdy, Troop A, of the Indian Scouts, was also decorated with the medal on the same date.{{cite book|last=Melzer|first=Richard|title=Buried Treasures: Famous and Unusual Gravesites in New Mexico History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UxiTZmoAAKgC&pg=PA285|year=2007|publisher=Sunstone Press|isbn=978-0-86534-531-7|page=285}}

The last Apache raid into the United States occurred as late as 1924 when a band of natives stole some horses from Arizonan settlers. The Apaches were caught and arrested.{{cn|date=May 2022}}{{cite encyclopedia |author=Clare V. McKanna, Jr. |encyclopedia=American National Biography Online |title=Apache Kid |url=http://www.anb.org/articles/20/20-91925-print.html |access-date=2012-06-21 |date=February 2000 |publisher= Oxford University Press}}{{cite web|title=Indian Wars in Arizona Territory|url= https://dema.az.gov/sites/default/files/Publications/AR-IndianWarsinArizonaTerritory-BORUNDA.pdf|publisher=Arizona Military Museum|access-date=2022-05-23|quote=On September 3, 1886, the wily war chief surrendered and the Apache Wars were finally over.}}{{cite web|last=Paul|first=Lee|title=Massai and the Apache Kid|url=http://www.theoutlaws.com/indians3.htm|publisher=Old West Legends|access-date=2011-08-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100624001806/http://www.theoutlaws.com/indians3.htm|archive-date=2010-06-24|quote=In early September 1906, a New Mexico posse determined to put an end to the depredations. They followed a trail of stolen horses along the north rim of Wild Horse Canyon, across Alamosa Creek, and up a canyon that headed northeast up the San Mateo Divide. On the morning of 6 September 1906, they ambushed two Indians at the head of San Juan Canyon.}}

The Mexican Indian Wars that involved Apache bands in Northern Mexico continued for another nine years, until the final holdouts were defeated in 1933.{{cn|date=May 2022}}