New Mexico Map
Rodeo, Hidalgo County

Hidalgo County (red),
The "Boot-Heel" of New Mexico

Hidalgo County is the southernmost county of the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2000 census, the population was 5,932, down from its 1980 peak of 6,049 but up 25% since 1970. Over half of the county's population live in the county seat of Lordsburg. (Wikipedia)

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Notice Rodeo, NM is in Hidalgo County, and sister city, Portal is in Cochise County, AZ.
Rodeo is only a few miles to the Coronado National Forest and the
Geronimo Surrender Site (see below).

Geronimo's Surrender Site (a Chiricahua Apache Warrior)

To North Americans and Mexicans of the 1870s and 1880s, Geronimo personalized the horrors of Apache warfare. Never a chief, and despised by many of his people, he nonetheless attained leadership through mastery of the partisan fighting style that baffled U.S. and Mexican troops. In cunning, stealth, endurance, perseverance, ruthlessness, fortitude, fighting skill, and command of the harsh conditions of his homeland, he excelled. With small followings, he alternated between reservation life in Arizona and raids from Mexico's Sierra Madre.

Geronimo (c.1829-1909)  (Wikipedia.org), Chiricahua Apache and leader of resistance to the US army, although he considered his main enemy to be the Mexicans. He ruined the reputation of famed American Indian-fighter Crook, whose use of Apache scouts twice forced him into the San Carlos reservation in Arizona, only to have him lead raiding parties out again. Miles eventually resumed Crook's tactics, forcing Geronimo's final surrender in 1886. Promised a short jail term and an eventual return to Arizona, but he was imprisoned in Florida for eleven years and lived out his life in Oklahoma. For some reason his name became the war cry of U.S. airborne forces.