Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 65040-h.htm or 65040-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/65040/65040-h/65040-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/65040/65040-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/anapachecampaign00bourrich Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. [Illustration: CRAWFORD’S COLUMN MOVING TO THE FRONT.] AN APACHE CAMPAIGN IN THE SIERRA MADRE. An Account of the Expedition in Pursuit of the Hostile Chiricahua Apaches in the Spring of 1883. by JOHN G. BOURKE, Captain Third Cavalry, U. S. Army, Author of “The Snake Dance of the Moquis.” Illustrated New York Charles Scribner’S Sons. 1886. Copyright 1886, By Charles Scribner’S Sons. Press of J. J. Little & Co., Nos. 10 to 20 Astor Place, New York. PREFACE. The recent outbreak of a fraction of the Chiricahua Apaches, and the frightful atrocities which have marked their trail through Arizona, Sonora, New Mexico, and Chihuahua, has attracted renewed attention to these brave but bloodthirsty aborigines and to the country exposed to their ravages. The contents of this book, which originally appeared in a serial form in the _Outing Magazine_ of Boston, represent the details of the expedition led by General Crook to the Sierra Madre, Mexico, in 1883; but, as the present military operations are conducted by the same commander, against the same enemy, and upon the same field of action, a perusal of these pages will, it is confidently believed, place before the reader a better knowledge of the general situation than any article which is likely soon to appear. There is this difference to be noted, however; of the one hundred and twenty-five (125) fighting men brought back from the Sierra Madre, less than one-third have engaged in the present hostilities, from which fact an additional inference may be drawn both of the difficulties to be overcome in the repression of these disturbances and of the horrors which would surely have accumulated upon the heads of our citizens had the _whole_ fighting force of this fierce band taken to the mountains. One small party of eleven (11) hostile Chiricahuas, during the period from November 15th, 1885, to the present date, has killed twenty-one (21) friendly Apaches living in peace upon the reservation, and no less than twenty-five (25) white men, women, and children. This bloody raid has been conducted through a country filled with regular troops, militia, and “rangers,”--and at a loss to the enemy, so far as can be shown, of only one man, whose head is now at Fort Apache. JOHN G. BOURKE. APACHE INDIAN AGENCY, SAN CARLOS, ARIZONA, _December 15th, 1885_. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.