Identifier: indianhistoryfor00drak (find matches)
Title: Indian history for young folks
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1828-1885 Dowd, Francis Joseph, 1876-
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Wars
Publisher: New York London : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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covetedby the white man; with the reservations came dishonest Indian agentsand broken Government promises. Poor rations and near-by herds ofcattle tempted the Indians to leave the reservations and to drive off thecattle, in the course of which depredations were committed, frequentlyresulting in the murder of the whites. Blocking the path of progress, theIndians were removed by force to distant and undesirable lands; and sothere were constant outbreaks of the different Apache tribes for which thecauses just enumerated were responsible. Beginning in 1870, almost constant warfare was waged against thedifferent Apache tribes in Arizona and New Mexico, these bands refusingto be confined on the reservations. In the innumerable outbreaks hun-dreds of settlers were murdered and thousands of heads of cattle run offby the marauding Indians, who held the whole country in a state of terror.The mines could not be operated; the ranchmen and settlers did not dare B GO I S3 H« H- OO a — >_ OB a
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CONQUERING THE WARLIKE APACHES. 487 to travel, except by night or with a military escort, fearing attacks by thefierce, murderous Apache bands. It would bore the reader were we to recount all of the harrowing out-rages occurring in this period. Most of the wars were of short durationand always ended in the return of the Indians to the reservation, wherethey remained until, again dissatisfied with their treatment, they wouldbreak loose and commit depredations. There were minor outbreaks in1870, 1871, 1872, and 1873. The outbreak of 1872 was put down by Gen-eral George Crook, who, with a large body of cavalry, assisted by friendlyApache scouts, pursued the hostiles into their mountain retreats and nearlyexterminated one of the bands in a pitched battle in the Tonto Basin, oneof the principal strongholds of the Apaches in Arizona. After this defeatthe different bands gradually came in to the Agency, and for a period,under the direction of General Crook, took up the pursuit of agriculture

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