C. S. Fly

His parents were originally from Andrew County, Missouri. Shortly after Camillus' birth, his family migrated to California, eventually settling in Napa County. He became a farmer and on September 29, 1879, he married Mary ("Mollie") (née McKie) Goodrich in San Francisco. Both were skillful photographers. She had previously been married to Samuel D. Goodrich but divorced him after two years. They left California and arrived in the booming silver-mining town of Tombstone, Arizona Territory in December 1879. == Life in Tombstone ==

In Tombstone they immediately opened a temporary photography studio in a tent. Mollie Fly actively managed Fly's Gallery when her husband was away. She was one of the few female photographers of the era, taking pictures of anyone who could pay the studio price of 35 cents. In June 1880, Fly partnered with C. A. Halstead in a studio at the Harshaw mining camp near the Mexican border. Veteran journalist Thomas Gardiner, publisher of The Arizona Quarterly Illustrated, was seeking contributions and welcomed Fly's photographs. The premier July 1880 issue featured two of Fly's photographs as engravings. Fly and Mollie temporarily raised a girl named Kitty, though it's not known whether she was adopted or was from another relationship. Mollie ran the boarding house and studio while her husband traveled around the region taking photographs. The Mayor of Tucson, C. M. Strauss, was present. He later wrote that: Tombstone Dr. George E. Goodfellow was fascinated by the earth movement and studied the earthquake's effects. He obtained a commission from the U.S. government to travel to the earthquake area, and on his second trip in July 1887 he brought C.S. Fly with him to help study and record the effects. They traveled over through the Sierra Madre mountains recording observations, mostly on foot. Goodfellow used Fly's images of the effects of the earthquake, the damaged and ruined buildings, and survivors to illustrate his report. == Famous photographs ==

Geronimo and Gen. Crook at Cañon de Los Embudos, Sonora, March 27, 1886. File:Scene in Geronimo's camp II.png|Geronimo, son, and two warriors. Originally captioned as "Geronimo's camp before surrender to General Crook, March 27, 1886: Geronimo and Natches mounted; Geronimo's son (Perico) standing at his side holding baby." File:Scene in Geronimo's camp I.png|"Scene in Geronimo's camp...before surrender to General Crook, March 27, 1886: Geronimo, full-length portrait standing, facing left, rifle at port." File:Apache chieff Geronimo (right) and his warriors in 1886.jpg|Geronimo, Yanozha (Geronimos's brother-in-law), Chappo (Geronimo's son by his second wife), and Fun (Yanozha's half brother) (right to left) in 1886. File:Geronimo camp March 27, 1886.jpg|"Scene in Geronimo's camp before surrender to General Crook, March 27, 1886: group in Natches' camp; boys with rifles." File:Scene in Geronimo's camp.png|"Scene in Geronimo's camp...before surrender to General Crook, March 27, 1886: group of 18 men, women and children." File:Jimmy McKinn 1886.jpg|Eleven-year-old Jimmy McKinn was abducted in early September 1885 by Geronimo. Six months later he fiercely resisted being returned to his parents. File:IkeClanton1881.jpg|Ike Clanton in Tombstone about 1881. File:Mclauriesclanton.jpg|Tom McLaury, Frank McLaury, and Billy Clanton in their caskets (left to right) after the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. This is the only known photo of 19-year-old Billy. File:Josephine-Sarah-Marcus-c1881.jpg|Disputed portrait of Sadie Marcus Behan (Josephine Earp), possibly Big Nose Kate, in Tombstone circa 1881. File:George E Goodfellow c1881.jpg| Dr. George E. Goodfellow, also known as the "Gunfighter's Surgeon" File:George Goodfellow on horseback.png|Dr. George E. Goodfellow on a horse given him by the Mexican governor File:Apache May.jpg|Apache May Slaughter (c. 1895–1900), orphaned by whites who killed her parents, was raised by the Slaughter family but died of burns from a fire. File:Schieffelin2.jpg|Ed Schieffelin found the first silver in the area. The town took its name from the name of his silver mine. File:George W. Parsons 1883.jpg |George Parsons on January 2, 1883, after returning from Sonora, Mexico. File:San Carlos Reservation police 1880.jpg|Indian Agency policemen in front of guard house in San Carlos, Arizona. They were appointed by the Reservation's Indian Agent. File:Apache warriors 1880.jpg|Chiricahua Apache warriors. Left to right: "Massai", "Apache Kid", and "Rowdy" pictured in a March 1886 photograph taken by C. S. Fly at Geronimo's camp. File:Apache encampment.jpg|Apache encampment File:"Orient_Saloon_at_Bisbee,_Arizona..._Faro_game_in_full_blast._Recognized,_Left_to_right-Tony_Downs_(standing_with_derby)_-_NARA_-_530986.jpg|Faro game at the Orient Saloon in Bisbee, Arizona Territory c. 1900. File:Charleston_year_1885.jpg|Charleston, Arizona Territory in 1885. == Death ==

Fly ran a ranch in the Chiricahua Mountains for a period. Though Camillus and his wife had been separated for years, she was at his bedside when he died at Bisbee on October 12, 1901. She made arrangements to have his body returned to Tombstone, where it was buried in the new Tombstone Cemetery. Fly's Peak, the second highest named summit of the Chiricahua Mountains, is named in his honor. == Mollie Fly continues business ==

Mary "Mollie" Fly continued to run the Tombstone gallery on her own after her husband's death and in 1905, she published a collection of her husband's Indian campaign photographs entitled ''Scenes in Geronimo's Camp: The Apache Outlaw and Murderer''. Coral Henry, a young girl who the Flys cared for after her parents died, described Mollie as "about five feet of pure dignity, very plainly dressed, but in manner Queen Victoria had nothing on her." In 1912, the boarding house burned to the ground for the second time. The fire prompted Mary to retire and she moved to Los Angeles. A replica was built some time later. Before she died in 1925, she donated her husband's collection of images to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. == In popular culture ==

His images are very collectible and command premium prices today. A cabinet card of the image "Geronimo, Son, and Two Braves" was auctioned by the Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas, Texas for $10,157.50 in 2010. A 6-5/8" x 9-1/2" albumen print photograph of "Geronimo and his warriors", taken in 1886, sold at auction on April 14, 2014, for $1,375. C.S. Fly appears in Elmore Leonard's western novel Gunsights (1979). == References ==