What to see in America . Arizona 443. Superstition Mountains cool summer climate, and where such wild game is foundas bear, deer, turkey, and mountain lions. The persistentenmity of the Apaches greatly retarded the development ofArizona up to 1886. The Apache chief, Geronimo, withonly twenty warriors, and hampered by fourteen squaws,once held at bay an American force of 2000 soldiers, and aMexican army of several thousand more. He murdered,burned, scalped, and pillaged, and completely terrorized thatentire section of Arizona and Mexico, all without losing asingle man. But in 1886 Gen. Miles an
What to see in America . Arizona 443. Superstition Mountains cool summer climate, and where such wild game is foundas bear, deer, turkey, and mountain lions. The persistentenmity of the Apaches greatly retarded the development ofArizona up to 1886. The Apache chief, Geronimo, withonly twenty warriors, and hampered by fourteen squaws,once held at bay an American force of 2000 soldiers, and aMexican army of several thousand more. He murdered,burned, scalped, and pillaged, and completely terrorized thatentire section of Arizona and Mexico, all without losing asingle man. But in 1886 Gen. Miles and his troopers fol-lowed Geronimos band into the mountains, giving them norest and forcing them to keep moving until even their doggedendurance could endure the strain no longer, and they sur-rendered. The Apache Trail has been converted into a road gradedand smoothed to as near perfection as a mountain roadcan be. The Indian moccasin trail is followed of it is through a wonderful realm of crags and turreted
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