Abducted white boy Jimmy McKinn freed from his Apache abductors C.S. Fly photo Sonora March 1886
by David Lee Guss
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Abducted white boy Jimmy McKinn freed from his Apache abductors C.S. Fly photo Sonora March 1886
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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Jimmy "was well treated during the six months that he lived with the Apache, assimilated their lifestyle and learned to speak their language.
When Geronimo surrendered to General George Crook at Sonora, Mexico in March, 1886, the boy was found among the small band of warriors, women, and children traveling with Geronimo. McKinn cried when taken from the Apaches to be returned to his original family, a fact widely reported in the newspapers, along with the fact that he had been 'Indianized.'"
This image was the last shot in Martin Ritt's directed "Hombre" starring Paul Newman. The screen was filled with Jimmy's face and slowly pulled back revealing the Apache children.
I saw the film in early 1967 at the Orpheum Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota. A few months later I was employed at KVOA TV in Tucson, Arizona and visited Old Tucson. The boarding house sequence for "Hombre" was shot at Old Tucson.
The structure was later relocated along the wall of the sound stage where it was filmed in numerous productions until consumed in a devastating arson started fire in 1995.
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