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

FOREWORD

“It should not be expected that an Indian who has lived as a barbarian all his life will become an angel the moment he comes on a reservation and promises to behave himself, or that he has that strict sense of honor which a person should have who has had the advantage of civilization all his life, and the benefit of a moral training and character which has been transmitted to him through a long line of ancestors. It requires constant watching and knowledge of their character to keep them from going wrong. They are children in ignorance, not in innocence. I do not wish to be understood as in the least palliating their crimes, but I wish to say a word to stem the torrent of invective and abuse which has almost universally been indulged in against the whole Apache race.... Greed and avarice on the part of the whites—in other words, the almighty dollar—is at the bottom of nine-tenths of all our Indian trouble.”

General George Crook

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.[Jimmie Dunn is Badly Fooled]21
II.[Jimmie Learns to be Apache]34
III.[The Red-Head Turns up]43
IV.[The Canvas Suit Man]53
V.[Jimmie Reports for Duty]65
VI.[The Peace Commission Tries]77
VII.[Jimmie Takes a Lesson]85
VIII.[The One-Armed General Tries]98
IX.[The Horrid Deed of Chuntz]113
X.[On the Trail With the Pack-Train]119
XI.[In the Stronghold of Cochise]129
XII.[General Crook Rides Again]140
XIII.[Hunting the Yavapai]152
XIV.[The Battle of the Cave]165
XV.[Jimmie is a Veteran]178
XVI.[The General Plans Well]185
XVII.[Bad Work Afoot]194
XVIII.[“Cluke” Goes Away]203
XIX.[Jimmie Sends the Alarm]211
XX.[The Gray Fox Returns]221
XXI.[To the Stronghold of Geronimo]228
XXII.[War or Peace?]237
XXIII.[Geronimo Plays Smart]246
XXIV.[Pack-Master Jimmie Meets a Surprise]254
XXV.[On the Job With Captain Crawford]262
XXVI.[Foes or Friends?]273
XXVII.[The Worst Enemy of All]286
XXVIII.[The End of the Trail]298

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