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On the Border with Crook

On the Border with Crook


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE BETURN TO CAMP GRANT?LANCED TO DEATH BY APACHES ?THE KILLING OF MILLER AND TAPPAN?COMPANY QUARTERS? APACHE CAPTIVES ? THE CLOUD-BURST ? APACHE CORN-FIELDS?MEETING COLONEL SANFORD?ENTRAPPED IN AN APACHE AMBUSCADE?AN OLD-TIMER'S REMINISCENCES OF TUCSON?FUNERAL CROSSES ON THE ROADSIDE?PADRE EUSEBIO KINO?FIRST VIEW OF TUCSON?THE SHOO FLY RESTAURANT. OF the return march very little need be said. The story would become too long, and there would be needless repetition if an attempt were to be made to describe each scout in detail. There are others to come of much more importance, and covering the same region, so that the reader will lose nothing by the omission. There was the usual amount of rough mountain climbing, wearing out shoes and patience and nerve strength all at one and the same time; there was the usual deprivation of water to be expected in the arid wastes of southern Arizona, where springs are few and far between; there were the usual tricks for getting along without much to drink, such as putting a pebble or twig in the mouth to induce a more copious flow of saliva; and when camp was made and the water was found to be not all that it might be, there were other tricks for cleaning it, or, at least, causing a deposition of the earthy matter held in suspension, by cutting up a few plates of the nopal and letting them remain in the kettle for a short time, until their mucilaginous juice had precipitated everything. But a still better plan was to improve the good springs, whieh was a labor of love with officers and men, and many a fine water hole in Arizona has been the scene of much hard work in digging out, building up with cracker boxes or something to hold the water and keep it from soaking into the earth. ARIZONA HEAT. 35 Camp Grant was r...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217735629
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217735622
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 354 gr


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