ILLUSTRATIONS

[John H. Cady]Frontispiece
[Old Barracks in Tucson]20
[Ruins of Fort Buchanan]28
[Cady's House on the Sonoita]44
[Ruins of Fort Crittenden]60
[The Old Ward Homestead]76
[Sheep Camp on the Sonoita]92
[Cady and his Family]108


ARIZONA'S YESTERDAY

THE BOY SOLDIER

"For the right that needs assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that they could do."

Fourteen years before that broad, bloody line began to be drawn between the North and the South of the "United States of America," before there came the terrific clash of steel and muscle in front of which the entire world retreated to a distance, horrified, amazed, fascinated and confounded; before there came the dreadful day when families were estranged and birthrights surrendered, loves sacrificed and the blight of the bullet placed on hundreds of thousands of sturdy hearts—fourteen years before this, on the banks of the mighty Ohio at Cincinnati, I was born, on September 15, 1846. My parents were John N. Cady, of Cincinnati, and Maria Clingman Cady, who was of German descent, and of whom I remember little owing to the fact that she died when I reached my third birthday.