Up against a powerful secret society, the great-grandson of Geronimo fights for return of warrior’s remains

A quest for stolen bones

Sometime in 1918, a half dozen young U.S. cadets, including possibly the grandfather of President Bush, dug up a grave at Fort Sill, Okla., and stole a skull, femurs and other burial items.

The cadets spirited the remains to a windowless building on the campus of Yale University called The Tomb, where they became part of club lore for the not so well-kept secret society, Skull and Bones.

The bones, so the story goes, belonged to Geronimo, one of the Chiricahua Apache warriors who led fierce campaigns against Mexican and U.S. forces in the late 1800s.

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