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The Dread Apache:That Early Day Scourge of the Southwest
The Dread Apache:That Early Day Scourge of the Southwest
The Dread Apache:That Early Day Scourge of the Southwest
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"Apache Incidents in Arizona; The Dread Apache:That Early Day Scourge of the Southwest" by Merrill Pingree Freman is a look at some of the depredations of the Apache in the early days in southern Arizona. Freeman established the Santa Cruz Valley Bank and eventually became very notable and influential in Arizona’s financial history. He was a member of Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona for 16 years and served as its Chancellor for 10 years. He was also a local historian specializing in recording notable facts regarding early Arizona history of which this short book is an example.

"Apache Incidents in Arizona; The Dread Apache:That Early Day Scourge of the Southwest" is a series of short vignettes of some of the many depredations committed by the Apache Indians in the 1880s.

Published in paper wraps in 1915 in a very small quantity, it is very scarce in its original binding. Presented here in an inexpensive e-book format for those interested in the Apache Indians and the early history of settlement in Arizona.

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LanguageEnglish
Release dateNov 3, 2013
ISBN9781501478482
The Dread Apache:That Early Day Scourge of the Southwest

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    The Dread Apache:That Early Day Scourge of the Southwest - Dr. Merrill P. Freeman

    The Dread Apache:

    That Early Day Scourge of the Southwest.

    BY DR. MERRILL P. FREEMAN

    A short time ago, idling through a collection of early day photographs, I came across two that vividly recalled the closing scenes in that bloody frontier drama in which the Apache was the chief actor. For many years the relentless foe of the pioneer, wary, tireless, cowardly and treacherous, he was the very incarnation of fiendishness, if possible, more pronounced in the squaw than in the man. Never meeting you in the open, always in ambush, concealed behind the big granite boulder, the point of a hill or a clump of brush, he and his fellows patiently awaited your solitary coming, all unconscious of danger, then the crack of the rifle and it is all over. Today he might be a sniper, but in the days of his hellish activities the word had not yet been given its more recently enlarged meaning.

    2,000 Pioneers Victims of Apaches.

    How many breakers of the wilderness, hardy, fearless old-timers, were sent to their final rest by this early scourge of the desert, who can say! Some place their number at two thousand, some say more, others less. This does not include the soldier boy, whose profession it is to risk his life, and when necessary, his duty, its sacrifice. Of the number of these there is probably a record somewhere, but of the old pioneer, only an estimate. In the valley, on the mesa and the hillside, on the mountaintop and in the deep shadows of the canyon, everywhere this broad land is dotted with their unknown and unmarked graves.

    Captain John G. Bourke, author of On the Border with Crook, and An Apache Campaign, who was with General Crook, tells us that the Apache is no coward, but that he has no false ideas about courage, that he would prefer to skulk like a coyote for hours and then kill his enemy, rather than by injudicious exposure receive a wound. May we not attribute to the chivalrous spirit of Captain Bourke, not to criticize a foe, his delicate way of putting this?

    No, I do not recall that this early plague of the old pioneer ever injudiciously exposed himself unless driven to it. Skulking like the coyote, as Captain Bourke so well expresses it, is my conception of his bravery. If forced to the open he would undoubtedly make a brave fight, but I have never heard of his voluntarily seeking that open, meeting his enemy on anything approaching equal terms.

    Paris Adopts Name of Apache.

    Being over in Paris a few years ago, a friend who had lived there a number of years, and who was as familiar with Paris from basement to roof-garden, as I am with Congress Street of our good old town of Tucson, suggested one evening that we visit the Apaches. Expressing surprise that any of my people should have wandered so far from home, I suggested as a substitute the Moulin Rouge. However, the Apaches were agreed on, and in the evening, my friend, bringing a policeman with him,

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