Tipis on the Terreplein

On September 20, 1886, 383 men, women and children of the Chiricahua and Warm Springs Apache bands arrived in Jacksonville, Florida. They were on their way to prison in St. Augustine aboard a special train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe line. When they detrained to walk to the ferry that would carry them across St. Johns River, they attracted hundreds of onlookers just as they had at each stop on the 2,000-mile route from Holbrook, Arizona. As elsewhere along the way, the mood among the