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Title: Captured by the Navajos

Author: Charles A. Curtis

Release Date: May 8, 2006 [EBook #18352]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "EVERY ONE HELD HIS RIFLE IN READINESS TO SHOOT THE
ESCAPING APACHES"]

CAPTURED
BY THE NAVAJOS

BY
CAPTAIN CHARLES A. CURTIS
U.S.A.

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1904, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

CONTENTS

CHAP.

I. INTRODUCES THE BOYS

II. ATTACKED BY NAVAJOS

III. WARLIKE PUEBLOS

IV. IN A NAVAJO TRAP

V. A SIEGE AND AN AMBUSCADE

VI. CROSSING THE RIVER

VII. A SWOLLEN STREAM AND STOLEN PONY

VIII. OVER THE DIVIDE--A CORPORAL MISSING

IX. THE RESCUING PARTY

X. THE CORPORALS ARE PROMOTED

XI. BOTH PONIES ARE STOLEN

XII. INDIANS ON THE WAR-PATH

XIII. THE BOY SERGEANTS DO GOOD SERVICE

XIV. ON THE DESERT WITHOUT WATER

XV. THE PONIES ARE FOUND

XVI. APACHES IN SKULL VALLEY

XVII. PURSUIT OF THE APACHES

XVIII. ON THE TRAIL OF THE APACHES

XIX. THE ATTACK ON THE APACHE CAMP

ILLUSTRATIONS

"EVERY ONE HELD HIS RIFLE IN READINESS TO
SHOOT THE ESCAPING APACHES" Frontispiece

"MOUNTED, THE BOYS PRESENTED A WARLIKE
APPEARANCE"

"CORPORAL HENRY ASKED CAPTAIN BAYARD TO
INQUIRE FOR MANUEL PEREA"

"'GOD HAS GIVEN ME AMONG MANY FRIENDS,
TWO THAT ARE SOMETHING MORE'"

CAPTURED BY THE NAVAJOS

I

INTRODUCES THE BOYS

It was late in the fall of the second year of the civil war that I
rejoined my company at Santa Fe, New Mexico, from detache