The passing of the frontier : a chronicle of the old West . or nearlythree hundred years, and had not beaten offered three hundred dollars each forApache scalps, and took a certain number ofthem. But they left all the remaining bravessworn to an eternal enmity. The Apaches be-came mountain outlaws, whose blood-mad thirstfor revenge never died. No tribe ever foughtmore bitterly. Hemmed in and surrounded, withno hope of escape, in some instances they per-ished literally to the last man. General GeorgeCrook finished the work of cleaning up theApache outlaws only by use of the trailers o
The passing of the frontier : a chronicle of the old West . or nearlythree hundred years, and had not beaten offered three hundred dollars each forApache scalps, and took a certain number ofthem. But they left all the remaining bravessworn to an eternal enmity. The Apaches be-came mountain outlaws, whose blood-mad thirstfor revenge never died. No tribe ever foughtmore bitterly. Hemmed in and surrounded, withno hope of escape, in some instances they per-ished literally to the last man. General GeorgeCrook finished the work of cleaning up theApache outlaws only by use of the trailers oftheir own people who sided with the whites forpay. Without the Pima scouts he never couldhave run down the Apaches as he did. Perhapsthese were the hardest of all the Plains Indiansto find and to fight. But in 1872 Crook subduedthem and concentrated them in reservations inArizona. Ten years later, under Geronimo, atribe of the Apaches broke loose and yielded toGeneral Crook only after a prolonged war. Onceagain they raided New Mexico and Arizona in ? THE INDIAN WARS 135 1885-6. This was the last raid of Geronimo. Hewas forced by General Miles to surrender and,together with his chief warriors, was deported toFort Pickens in Florida. In all these savage pitched battles and bloodyskirmishes, the surprises and murderous assaultsall over the old range, there were hundreds ofsettlers killed, hundreds also of our army men,including some splendid officers. In the Custerfight alone, on the Little Big Horn, the Army lostCuster himself, thirteen commissioned officers,and two hundred and fifty-six enlisted men killed,with two officers and fifty-one men wounded; atotal of three hundred and twenty-three killedand wounded in one battle. Custer had in hisfull column about seven hundred men. The num-ber of the Indians has been variously had perhaps five thousand men in theirvillages when they met Custer in this, the mosthistoric and most ghastly battle of the would
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