On March 25 and 26, 1886, Camillus Sidney Fly of Tombstone, Arizona, recorded a first – and a last: The only known photographs of American Indians as enemy in the field. Taken at Canon de los Embudos (Canyon of the Funnels), Mexico, his photographs of Geronimo, Naiche, and their Chiricahua Apache followers in camp and negotiating with General George Crook are unique. Remarkably, Fly’s singular achievement has never been fully appreciated or understood by students of either Southwestern history or the history of photography. The entire original series of photographs has never before been published; many of the views have been misidentified; and no known single collection contains the complete set. ~ ~ ~ The value of Fly’s photographic series is twofold. Individually, the photos are an unadulterated illustration of the clothing, weapons, and gear that the warriors and their families used while following their traditional lives as a nomadic people at war. Collectively, they show the last American Indians to live as free people, their basic culture and spirit as yet unconquered by an alien power.