GENERAL CROOK AND THE FIGHTING APACHES FIFTH IMPRESSION _The American Trail Blazers_ “THE STORY GRIPS AND THE HISTORY STICKS” These books present in the form of vivid and fascinating fiction, the early and adventurous phases of American history. Each volume deals with the life and adventures of one of the great men who made that history, or with some one great event in which, perhaps, several heroic characters were involved. The stories, though based upon accurate historical fact, are rich in color, full of dramatic action, and appeal to the imagination of the red-blooded man or boy. Each volume illustrated in color and black and white. INTO MEXICO WITH GENERAL SCOTT LOST WITH LIEUTENANT PIKE GENERAL CROOK AND THE FIGHTING APACHES OPENING THE WEST WITH LEWIS AND CLARK WITH CARSON AND FRÉMONT DANIEL BOONE: BACKWOODSMAN BUFFALO BILL AND THE OVERLAND TRAIL CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH DAVID CROCKETT: SCOUT ON THE PLAINS WITH CUSTER GOLD SEEKERS OF ’49 WITH SAM HOUSTON IN TEXAS WITH GEORGE WASHINGTON INTO THE WILDERNESS IN THE RANKS OF OLD HICKORY [Illustration: “GET DOWN, GET DOWN!” THEY ORDERED, FURIOUSLY, IN APACHE] GENERAL CROOK AND THE FIGHTING APACHES TREATING ALSO OF THE PART BORNE BY JIMMIE DUNN IN THE DAYS, 1871–1886, WHEN WITH SOLDIERS AND PACK-TRAINS AND INDIAN SCOUTS, BUT EMPLOYING THE STRONGER WEAPONS OF KINDNESS, FIRMNESS AND HONESTY, THE GRAY FOX WORKED HARD TO THE END THAT THE WHITE MEN AND THE RED MEN IN THE SOUTHWEST AS IN THE NORTHWEST MIGHT BETTER UNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHER BY EDWIN L. SABIN AUTHOR OF “OPENING THE WEST WITH LEWIS AND CLARK,” “BUFFALO BILL AND THE OVERLAND TRAIL,” ETC. _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHARLES H. STEPHENS PORTRAIT AND A MAP_ [Illustration] PHILADELPHIA & LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PRINTED IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE 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