OLD CAMP GRANT ON THE RIO SAN PEDRO-DAILY ROUTINE OP LIFE-ARCHITECTURE OP THE GILA-SOLDIERS AS LABORERS-THE MESCAL AND ITS USES-DRINK AND GAMBLING -RATTLESNAKE BITES AND THE GOLONDRINA WEED- SODA LAKE AND THE DEATH VALLEY-PELMER AND HIS RANCH.
DANTE ALIGHIERT, it has always seemed to mc, made the mistake of his life in dying when he did in the picturesque capital of the Exarchate five hundred aud fifty years ago. Had he held on to this mortal coil until after Uncle Sam had perfected the " Gadsden Purchase/' he would have fouud full scope for his genius in the description of a region in which not only purgatory and hell, but heaven likewise, had combined to produce a bewildering kaleidoscope of all that was wonderful, weird, terrible, and awe-inspiring, with not a little that was beautiful and romantic.
The vast region in the southwest corner of the United States, kuown on the maps as the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, may, with perfect frankness, be claimed as the wonder-la
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OLD CAMP &RANT ON THE RIO SAN PEDRO-DAILY ROUTINE OF LIFE- ARCHITECTURE OF THE GILA-SOLDIERS AS LABORERS-THE MESCAL AND ITS USES-DRINK AND GAMBLING-RATTLESNAKE BITES AND THE GOLONDRINA WEED-SODA LAKE AND THE DEATH VALLEY-FELMER AND HIS RANCH1; CHAPTER II; STRANGE VISITORS-SOME APACHE CUSTOMS-MEXICAN CAPTIVES-SPEEDY AND THE GHOST-THE ATTACK UPON KENNEDY AND ISRAEL'S TRAIN -FINDING THE BODIES-THE DEAD APACHE-A FRONTIER BURIAL- HOW LIEUTENANT YEATON RECEIVED HIS DEATH WOUND-ON THE TRAIL WITH LIEUTENANT CUSHING-REVENGE IS SWEET 17; CHAPTER III; THE RETURN TO CAMP GRANT-LANCED TO DEATH BY APACHES-THE KILLING OF MILLER AND TAPPAN-COMPANY QUARTERS-APACHE CAPTIVES -THE CLOUD-BURST-APACHE CORN-FIELDS-MEETTNO COLONEL SAN-FORD-ENTRAPPED IX 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 34; CHAPT
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