The story of Arizona . er and the other desert travelers shot 132 THE STORY OF ARIZONA bactrians and dromedaries on sight, but for manyyears a remnant, grown wary through experience,remained. About these survivors all sorts of weird taleswere told. There was the story of the camel whosaved the life of an escaped convict by leadinghim to the Tenijas Altas Springs; there was thestory of the big red bactrian who haunted thewest bank of the Colorado, and when the moonwas full would carry on his back a skeleton lashedto the saddle; and finally the yarn of a ghost ofa crazy prospector who drove back
The story of Arizona . er and the other desert travelers shot 132 THE STORY OF ARIZONA bactrians and dromedaries on sight, but for manyyears a remnant, grown wary through experience,remained. About these survivors all sorts of weird taleswere told. There was the story of the camel whosaved the life of an escaped convict by leadinghim to the Tenijas Altas Springs; there was thestory of the big red bactrian who haunted thewest bank of the Colorado, and when the moonwas full would carry on his back a skeleton lashedto the saddle; and finally the yarn of a ghost ofa crazy prospector who drove back and forth onthe road to Ajo three equally ghostly dromedarieswith packs laden with gold nuggets. The camel drivers remained in the Southwestthe rest of their lives. Greek George, some timein the 70s, killed a man in New Mexico, and,rather than be captured, committed suicide. HiJolly for years followed the life of a prospector,outlived most of his charges, and, a grizzled oldman, died in 1902, at Tysons Wells, l-H <1 HO< omp Ph Chapteb XITHE VENGEANCE OF COCHISE IT will be remembered that in telling of thecapture of Inez Gonzales, mention was madeof other women who were stolen by her cap-tors—^who were Pinalino Apaches—at the sametime. One of these women was Jesus Salvador,the maid of Mercedes Pacheco, Inezs aunt. Jesuswas compelled by one of the Pinalinos to becomehis wife, and, as a result of this union, there wasbom to the woman a child who was afterwardsknown as Mickey Free. Following several years of slavery and suffer-ing, the captive, taking her child with her, escapedto the friendly Pimas, who treated her with greatkindness, escorting her to Mexican friends at Tuc-son. Later, in 1860, when Mickey Free was sixyears old, she became the housekeeper of one JohnWard, who lived in the Valley of the Sonoita,about twelve miles below Fort Buchanan. Onemorning in October, 1860, when Ward was awayfrom home, while the boy was trying to catch aburro, his pursuit
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