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===Death=== In February 1909, Geronimo was thrown from his horse while riding home and lay in the cold all night until a friend found him extremely ill.<ref name="The American Experience, We Shall Remain: Geronimo" /> He died of [[pneumonia]] on February 17, 1909, as a prisoner of the United States at Fort Sill.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/death-geronimo |title=Death of Geronimo|work= History Today |access-date= |archive-date=April 28, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140428035131/http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/death-geronimo |url-status=live |first = Richard|last = Cavendish|date = 2 February 2009}}</ref> On his deathbed, he confessed to his nephew that he regretted his decision to surrender.<ref name="The American Experience, We Shall Remain: Geronimo" /> His last words were reported to be said to his nephew, "I should have never surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive."<ref>{{cite web|title=American Experience We Shall Remain: Geronimo|url=https://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/media/pdf/transcript/WeShallRemain_4_transcript.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130404102418/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/files/transcripts/WeShallRemain_4_transcript.pdf|archive-date=April 4, 2013|publisher=PBS}}</ref> He was buried at Fort Sill in the Beef Creek Apache Cemetery.<ref>{{cite web|title=Google maps location|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Beef+Creek+Apache+Cemetery,+Fort+Sill,+OK+73503/@34.6931781,-98.3758767,2128m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x87ad1ba325c315f5:0xc33e2807e8d4f296!8m2!3d34.6968876!4d-98.3702908?hl=en|publisher=[[Google Maps]]|access-date=May 14, 2020|archive-date=April 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407013040/https://www.google.com/maps/place/Beef+Creek+Apache+Cemetery,+Fort+Sill,+OK+73503/@34.6931781,-98.3758767,2128m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x87ad1ba325c315f5:0xc33e2807e8d4f296!8m2!3d34.6968876!4d-98.3702908?hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref>
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