Arizona's yesterday . ed dozvn on endless strife; Where murder, lust and hate zvere rife,What footprints Time left in the sand! —WOON. IN THE seventies and early eighties the hostilityof the various Apache Indian tribes was at itsheight, and there was scarcely a man in theTerritory who had not at some time felt the dreadof these implacable enemies. By frequent raids on emigrants wagons and onfreighting outfits, the Indians had succeeded in arm-ing themselves fairly successfully with the rifle ofthe white man; and they kept themselves in ammu-nition by raids on lonely ranches and by jumpingor a
Arizona's yesterday . ed dozvn on endless strife; Where murder, lust and hate zvere rife,What footprints Time left in the sand! —WOON. IN THE seventies and early eighties the hostilityof the various Apache Indian tribes was at itsheight, and there was scarcely a man in theTerritory who had not at some time felt the dreadof these implacable enemies. By frequent raids on emigrants wagons and onfreighting outfits, the Indians had succeeded in arm-ing themselves fairly successfully with the rifle ofthe white man; and they kept themselves in ammu-nition by raids on lonely ranches and by jumpingor ambushing prospectors and lone travelers. If aman was outnumbered by Apaches he often shothimself, for he knew that if captured he w<ould prob-ably be tortured by one of the fiendish methods madeuse of by these Indians. If he had a woman withhim it was an act of kindness to shoot her, too, forto her, also, even if the element of torture wereabsent, captivity with the Indians would invariablybe an even sadder Indian Warfare 93 Sometimes bands of whites would take the placeof the soldiers and revenge themselves on Apacheraiders. There was the raid on the Wooster ranch,for instance. This ranch was near Tubac. Woosterlived alone on the ranch with his wife and one hiredman. One morning Apaches sw*ooped down on theplace, killed Wooster and carried off his wife. Asshe has never been heard of since it has always beensupposed that she was killed. This outrage resultedin the famous Camp Grant Massacre, the tale ofwhich echoed all over the world, together with indig-nant protests from centers of culture in the Eastthat the whites of Arizona were more savage thanthe savages themselves. I leave it to the reader tojudge whether this was a fact. The Wooster raid and slaughter was merely theculminating tragedy of a series of murders, robberiesand depredations carried on by the Apaches foryears. Soldiers would follow the raiders, kill a fewof them in retaliation, and a few days later
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