Chapter I: Front Matter

GENERAL CROOK AND THE
FIGHTING APACHES

FIFTH IMPRESSION

_The American Trail Blazers_

“THE STORY GRIPS AND THE HISTORY STICKS”

These books present in the form of vivid and fascinating fiction, the early and adventurous phases of American history. Each volume deals with the life and adventures of one of the great men who made that history, or with some one great event in which, perhaps, several heroic characters were involved. The stories, though based upon accurate historical fact, are rich in color, full of dramatic action, and appeal to the imagination of the red-blooded man or boy.

Each volume illustrated in color and black and white.

INTO MEXICO WITH GENERAL SCOTT
LOST WITH LIEUTENANT PIKE
GENERAL CROOK AND THE FIGHTING APACHES
OPENING THE WEST WITH LEWIS AND CLARK
WITH CARSON AND FRÉMONT
DANIEL BOONE: BACKWOODSMAN
BUFFALO BILL AND THE OVERLAND TRAIL
CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH
DAVID CROCKETT: SCOUT
ON THE PLAINS WITH CUSTER
GOLD SEEKERS OF ’49
WITH SAM HOUSTON IN TEXAS
WITH GEORGE WASHINGTON INTO THE WILDERNESS
IN THE RANKS OF OLD HICKORY

GENERAL CROOK
AND THE
FIGHTING APACHES

TREATING ALSO OF THE PART BORNE BY JIMMIE DUNN IN THE
DAYS, 1871–1886, WHEN WITH SOLDIERS AND PACK-TRAINS AND
INDIAN SCOUTS, BUT EMPLOYING THE STRONGER WEAPONS OF
KINDNESS, FIRMNESS AND HONESTY, THE GRAY FOX WORKED
HARD TO THE END THAT THE WHITE MEN AND THE RED MEN IN
THE SOUTHWEST AS IN THE NORTHWEST MIGHT BETTER UNDERSTAND
ONE ANOTHER

BY

EDWIN L. SABIN

AUTHOR OF “OPENING THE WEST WITH LEWIS AND CLARK,”
“BUFFALO BILL AND THE OVERLAND TRAIL,” ETC.

_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHARLES H. STEPHENS
PORTRAIT AND A MAP_

PHILADELPHIA & LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

PRINTED IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TO THE

TYPICAL AMERICAN SOLDIER

WHOSE MOTTO, LIKE GENERAL CROOK’S, IS BRAVERY,
EFFICIENCY, AND “JUSTICE TO ALL”

“Then General Crook came; he, at least, had
never lied to us. His words gave the people
hope. He died. Their hope died again. Despair
came again.”

_Chief Red Cloud of the Sioux_