On the Border with Crook

John G. Bourke

• Publisher: Mayo Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781406742190, 9781443726528
• eBook ISBN: 9781447485612

General Crook fought and ended the Apache wars in the American Southwest and travelling and fighting with him was John Gregory Bourke. This is a fascinating account of war first hand and is a must read for anybody with an interest in the military history of the United States. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Foreward for New Edition
• Preface
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Chapter I. Old Camp Grant 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 Ranch
• 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
• 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—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
• Chapter IV. Some of the Friends Met in Old Tucson—Jack Long—His Divorce—Marshal Duffield and “Waco Bill”—“Them ’Ere’s Mee Visitin’ Kee-Yard”—Judge Titus and Charles O. Brown—How Duffield was Killed—Uncle Billy N—And His Three Glass Eyes—Al. Garrett—Doctor Semig and Lieutenant Sherwood—Don Estevan Ochoa—Bishop Salpointe—Pete Kitchen and His Ranch
• Chapter V. The Diversions of Tucson—The Gambling Saloons—Bob Crandall and His Diamond—“Slap-Jack Billy”—Tight-Rope Walkers—The Theatre—The Dueñas—Bailes—The Newspapers—Stage-Drivers
• Chapter VI. Tucson Incidents—The “Fiestas”—The Ruined Mission Church of San Xavier Del Bac—Governor Safford—Arizona Mines—Apache Raids—Camp Grant Massacre—The Killing of Lieutenant Cushing
• Chapter VII. General Crook and the Apaches—Crook’s Personal Appearance and Characteristics—Points in the History of the Apaches—Their Skill in War—Foods and Modes of Cooking—Medicine Men—Their Power and Influence
• Chapter VIII. Crook’s First Movements Against the Apaches—The Scouts—Mirages—The Floral Wealth of Arizona—Running in upon the Hostile Apaches—An Adventure with Bears—Crook’s Talk with the Apaches—The Great Mogollon Plateau—The Tonto Basin—Montezuma’s Well—Cliff Dwellings—The Pack Trains
• Chapter IX. The Picturesque Town of Prescott—The Apaches Active Near Prescott—“Tommy” Byrne and the Hualpais—Thieving Indian Agents—The Mojaves, Pi-Utes and Ava-Supais—The Travels of Fathers Escalante and Garces—The Gods of the Hualpais—The Loring Massacre—How Phil Dwyer Died and was buried—The Indian Murderers at Camp Date Creek Plan to Kill Crook—Mason Jumps the Renegades at the “Muchos Cañones”—Delt-Che and Cha-Lipun Give Trouble—The Killing of Bob Whitney
• Chapter X. Crook Begins His Campaign—The Winter March Across the Mogollon Plateau—The Great Pine Belt—Bobby-Doklinny, the Medicine Man—Cooley and His Apache Wife—The Apache Chief Esquinosquizn—The Apache Guide Nanaaje—The Feast of Dead-Mule Meat—The Fight in the Cave in the Salt River Cañon—The Death-Chant—The Charge—The Dying Medicine Man—The Scene in the Cave
• Chapter XI. The Campaign Resumed—Efficiency of Apache Scouts—Jack Long Breaks Down—A Band of Apaches Surrender in the Mountains—The Epizootic—The Taylor Massacre and its Avenging—The Arizona Roll of Honor, Officers, Men, Surgeons, Scouts, Guides, and Packers—The Strange Ruin in the Verde Valley—Death of Presiliano Monje—The Apaches Surrender Unconditionally to Crook at Camp Verde
• Chapter XII. The Problem of Civilizing the Apaches—The Work Performed by Mason, Schuyler, Randall, Rice, and Babcock—Tucson Ring Influence at Washington—The Wounding of Lieutenant Charles King—The Killing of Lieutenant Jacob Almy—The Seven Apache Heads Laid on the San Carlos Parade Ground—Crook’s Cash Market for the Fruits of Apache Industry—His Method of Dealing with Indians
• Chapter XIII. The Closing Days of Crook’s First Tour in Arizona—Visit to the Moqui Villages—The Painted Desert—The Petrified Forests—The Grand Canon—The Cataract Canon—Building the Telegraph Line—The Apaches Using the Telegraph Line—Mapping Arizona—An Honest Indian Agent—The Chiricahua Apache Chief, Cocheis—The “Hanging” in Tucson—A Frontier Daniel—Crook’s Departure from Arizona—Death Valley—The Fairy Land of Los Angeles—Arrival at Omaha
• Chapter XIV. The Department of the Platte—The Black Hills Difficulty—The Allison Commission—Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull—The First Winter Campaign—Clothing Worn by the Troops—The Start for the Big Horn—Frank Gruard, Louis Richaud, Big Bat, Louis Changrau, and Other Guides
• Chapter XV. Moving into the Big Horn Country in Winter—The Herd Stampeded—A Night Attack—“Jeff’s” Oozing Courage—The Grave-Yard at Old Fort Reno—in a Montana Blizzard—The Mercury Frozen in the Bulb—Killing Buffalo—Indian Graves—How Crook Looked While on this Campaign—Finding a Dead Indian’s Arm—Indian Pictures
• Chapter XVI. The Attack upon Crazy Horse’s Village—The Bleak Night March Across the Mountains—Egan’s Charge through the Village—Stanton and Mills and Sibley to the Rescue—The Burning Lodges—Men Frozen—The Wealth of the Village—Retreating to Lodge Pole Creek—Crook Rejoins us—Cutting the Throats of Captured Ponies
• Chapter XVII. The Summer Campaign of 1876—The Sioux and Cheyennes Getting Ugly—Raiding the Settlements—Attempt to Ambuscade Crook—Killing the Mail-Rider—The Story of the Fetterman Massacre—Lake De Smet—Our First Thunderstorm—A Soldier’s Burial—The Sioux Attack our Camp—Trout-Fishing—Bear-Hunting—Calamity Jane—The Crow and Shoshone Allies Join the Command—The War Dance and Medicine Song
• Chapter XVIII. The Column in Motion—Running into a Great Herd of Buffaloes—The Signal Cry of the Scouts—The Fight on the Rosebud—How the Killed were Buried—Scalp Dance—Butchering a Cheyenne—Lieutenant Schuyler Arrives—Sending Back the Wounded
• Chapter XIX. Killing Dull Care in Camp—Exploring the Snow-Crested Big Horn Mountains—Finerty Kills His First Buffalo—The Swimming Pools—A Big Trout—Sibley’s Scout—A Narrow Escape—News of the Custer Massacre—The Sioux Try to Burn us Out—The Three Messengers from terry—Washakie Drills His Shoshones—Kelly the Courier Starts to Find Terry—Crow Indians Bearing Despatches—The Sign-Language—A Pony Race—Indian Serenades—How the Shoshones Fished—A Fire in Camp—The Utes Join us
• Chapter XX. The Junction with Merritt and the March to Meet Terry—The Country on Fire—Merritt and His Command—Mr. “Graphic”—Stanton and His “Irregulars”—“Ute John”—The Site of the Hostile Camp—A Sioux Cemetery—Meeting Terry’s Command—Finding Two Skeletons—in the Bad Lands—Lancing Rattlesnakes—Bathing in the Yellowstone—Mackinaw Boats and “Bull” Boats—The Rees Have a Pony Dance—Some Terrible Storms—Lieutenant William P. Clarke
• Chapter XXI. Crook and Terry Separate—The Picturesque Little Missouri—The “Horse Meat March” from the Head of the Heart River to Deadwood—on the Sioux Trail—Making Coffee Under Difficulties—Slaughtering Worn-Out Cavalry Horses for Food—The Fight at Slim Buttes—Lieutenant Von Leuttewitz Loses a Leg—The Dying Chief, American Horse, Surrenders—Relics of the Custer Massacre—Crazy Horse Attacks our Lines—Sunshine and Rations
• Chapter XXII. To and through the Black Hills—How Deadwood Looked in 1876—The Deadwood “Academy of Music”—The Second Winter Campaign—The Names of the Indian Scouts—Wiping Out the Cheyenne Village—Lieutenant Mckinney Killed—Fourteen Cheyenne Babies Frozen to Death in Their Mothers’ Arms—The Custer Massacre Again—The Terrible Experience of Randall and the Crow Scouts
• Chapter XXIII. Strange Mess-Mates—The Journey to the Agencies—General Sheridan’s Visit—Spotted Tail—The Story of His Dead Daughter’s Bones—White Thunder—Red Cloud—Dull Knife—Big Wolf—The Necklace of Human Fingers—The Medicine Man and the Electric Battery—Washington—Friday—Indian Brothers—Sorrel Horse—Three Bears—Young Man Afraid of His Horses—Rocky Bear—Red Cloud’s Letter—Indian Dances—The Bad Lands—How the Cheyennes First Got Horses
• Chapter XXIV. The Surrender of Crazy Horse—Selling Ammunition to Hostile Indians—Plundering Unarmed, Peaceable Indians—Supper With Crazy Horse—Character of this Chief—His Bravery and Generosity—The Story of the Custer Massacre as told by Horny Horse—Lieutenant Reilly’s Ring—The Death of Crazy Horse—Little Big Man
• Chapter XXV. The Management of the Indian Agencies—Agent Macgillicuddy’s Wonderful Work—Crook’s Remaining Days in the Department of the Platte—The Bannock, Ute, Nez Percé, and Cheyenne Outbreaks—The Killing of Major Thornburgh and Captain Weir—Merritt’s Famous March Against Time—How the Dead Came to Life and Walked—The Case of the Poncas—Crook’s Hunts and Explorations; Nearly Frozen to Death in a Blizzard—A Narrow Escape from an Angry She-Bear—Catching Nebraska Horse-Thieves—“Doc” Middleton’s Gang
• Chapter XXVI. Crook Re-Assigned to the Department of Arizona—All the Apaches on the War-Path—Lieutenants Morgan and Converse Wounded—Captain Hentig Killed—Crook Goes Alone to See the Hostiles—Conferences with the Apaches—what the Arizona Grand Jury Said of an Indian Agent—Condition of Affairs at the San Carlos Agency—Whiskey Sold to the Chiricahua Apaches—Apache Trials by Jury—Arizona in 1882—Phœnix, Prescott, and Tucson—Indian Schools
• Chapter XXVII. The Sierra Madre Campaign and the Chiricahuas—Chato’s Raid—Crook’s Expedition of Forty-Six White Men and One Hundred and Ninety-Three Indian Scouts—The Surprise of the Apache Stronghold—The “Tombstone Toughs”—The Management of the Chiricahuas—How Indians will Work if Encouraged—Giving the Franchise to Indians; Crook’s Views—The Crawford Court of Inquiry—Ka-e-ten-na’s Arrest Ordered by Major Barber—Trouble Arises Between the War and Interior Departments—Crook Asks to be Relieved from the Responsibility for Indian Affairs—Some of the Chiricahuas Return to the War-Path
• Chapter XXVIII. The Campaign Against Geronimo—The Crops Raised by the Apaches—The Pursuit of the Hostiles—The Hard Work of the Troops—Efficient and Faithful Service of the Chiricahua Scouts—War Dances and Spirit Dances—Captain Crawford Killed—A Visit to the Hostile Stronghold—A “Nervy” Photographer—A White Boy Captive among the Apaches—Alchise’s and Ka-e-ten-na’s Good Work—Geronimo Surrenders to Crook
• Chapter XXIX. The Effects of Bad Whiskey upon Savage Indians—The Wretch Tribollet—Some of the Chiricahuas Slip away from Maus during a Rainy Night—The Burial of Captain Crawford—Crook’s Terms Disapproved in Washington—Crook asks to be Relieved from Command in Arizona—Geronimo Induced to Come in by the Chiricahua Ambassadors, Ki-e-ta and Martinez—Treachery Shown in the treatment of the Well-Behaved Members of the Chiricahua Apache Band
• Chapter XXX. Crook’s Closing Years—He Averts a War with the Utes—A Member of the Commission which Secured a Cession of Eleven Millions of Acres from the Sioux—His Interest in Game Laws—His Death—What the Apaches Did—What Red Cloud Said—His Funeral in Chicago—Burial in Oakland, Maryland—Re-Interment in Arlington Cemetery, Virginia