GENERAL CROOK AND THE FIGHTING APACHES
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TREATING ALSO OF THE PART BORNE BY JIMMIE DUNN IN THE DAYS, 1871–1886, WHEN WITH SOLDIERS AND PACK-TRAINS AND INDIAN SCOUTS, BUT EMPLOYING THE STRONGER WEAPONS OF KINDNESS, FIRMNESS AND HONESTY, THE GRAY FOX WORKED HARD TO THE END THAT THE WHITE MEN AND THE RED MEN IN THE SOUTHWEST AS IN THE NORTHWEST MIGHT BETTER UNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHER
BY EDWIN L. SABIN
AUTHOR OF “OPENING THE WEST WITH LEWIS AND CLARK,” “BUFFALO BILL AND THE OVERLAND TRAIL,” ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHARLES H. STEPHENS PORTRAIT AND A MAP
PHILADELPHIA & LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
PRINTED IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO THE
TYPICAL AMERICAN SOLDIER
WHOSE MOTTO, LIKE GENERAL CROOK’S, IS BRAVERY, EFFICIENCY, AND “JUSTICE TO ALL”
“Then General Crook came; he, at least, had never lied to us. His words gave the people hope. He died. Their hope died again. Despair came again.”
Chief Red Cloud of the Sioux