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Speaker 1: Dedication and preface of Arizona's Yesterday, being the narrative of
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Speaker 1: John H. Caddy, Pioneer. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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Speaker 1: Tony Possante. Arizona's Yesterday by John Caddy and Basso Woon
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Speaker 1: Dedication and preface. Two the Pioneers who are living and
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Speaker 1: two the Memories of those who are dead. This book
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Speaker 1: an affectionate tribute to the gallant, courage, rugged independence, and
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Speaker 1: wonderful endurance of those adventurous souls who formed the vanguard
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Speaker 1: of civilization in the early history of the territory of
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Speaker 1: Arizona and the remainder of the Great West. Is dedicated
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Speaker 1: John H. Caddy, Basal d womb Patagonia, Arizona, nineteen fifteen Preface.
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Speaker 1: When I first wrote the matter of writing his autobiography
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Speaker 1: to John H. Cady, two things outstruck me. Particularly. One
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Speaker 1: was that of all literature about Arizona, there was little
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Speaker 1: that attempted to give a straight, chronological and intimate description
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Speaker 1: of events that occurred during the early life of the territory.
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Speaker 1: And second that of all the men I knew, Caddy
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Speaker 1: was best fitted, by reason of his extraordinary experiences, remarkable
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Speaker 1: memory for names and dates, and seniority in pioneership, to
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Speaker 1: supply the work that I felt lacking some years ago
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Speaker 1: when I first came West, I happened to be sitting
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Speaker 1: on the observation platform of a train bound for the
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Speaker 1: Orange Groves of southern California. A lady with whom I
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Speaker 1: had held some slight conversation on the journey, turned to
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Speaker 1: me after we had left Tucson and had started on
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Speaker 1: a long and somewhat dreary journey across the desert that
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Speaker 1: stretches from the Old Pueblo to San Berdeau, and said,
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Speaker 1: do you know I actually used to believe all those
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Speaker 1: stories about the wildness of the West. I see how
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Speaker 1: badly I was mistaken. She had taken a half hour's
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Speaker 1: stroll about Tucson while the train changed crews, and had
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Speaker 1: been impressed by the through the casual observer sleepiness of
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Speaker 1: the ancient town. She told me there never again would
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Speaker 1: she looked on a wild West moving picture without wanting
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Speaker 1: to laugh. She would not believe there had ever been
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Speaker 1: a wild West, at least not an Arizona. And yet
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Speaker 1: it is history that the old territory of Arizona in
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Speaker 1: days gone by was the wildest and wooliest of all
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Speaker 1: the West. As any old settler would testify, there is
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Speaker 1: no doubt that to the tourists the West is now
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Speaker 1: a source of constant disappointment. The movies and certain literature
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Speaker 1: have educated the Easterner to the belief that even now
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Speaker 1: Indians go on the warpath occasionally, that even now cowboys
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Speaker 1: sometimes find an outlet for their exuberant spirits in the
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Speaker 1: hair raising sport of shooting up the town, and that
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Speaker 1: even now battles between the law abiding cattlemen and the
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Speaker 1: rustlers are more or less frequent when these people come
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Speaker 1: west in their comfortable pullments and discover nothing more interesting
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Speaker 1: in the shape of Indians than a few old squaws
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Speaker 1: selling trinkets and blankets on station platforms, as at Yuma,
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Speaker 1: when they visit one of the famous old towns wherein
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Speaker 1: days gone by white men were wont to sleep with
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Speaker 1: one eye and the ear open for marauding Indians, and
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Speaker 1: find electric cars, modern office buildings, paved streets crowded with
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Speaker 1: luxurious motors, and the inhabitants nonchalantly pursuing the even tenor
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Speaker 1: of their ways carved in Habelmets strongly suggestive of forty
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Speaker 1: fourth Street and Broadway. When they come west, and these
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Speaker 1: signs of an advancing and all conquering civilization, I say,
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Speaker 1: they invariably are disappointed. When lady I met even thought
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Speaker 1: how delightful it would be if the apaches would only
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Speaker 1: hold up the train, It failed altogether to occur to
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Speaker 1: her that in the days when wagon trains were held
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Speaker 1: up by apaches, few of those in them escaped to
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Speaker 1: tell the gruesome tale. And yet the sustainable lady, fresh
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Speaker 1: from the drawing rooms of Upper radcliff On the Hudson
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Speaker 1: and the ball room of Rectors, thought how delightful this
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Speaker 1: would be. Ah fortunate indeed is it that the pluck
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Speaker 1: and persistence of the pioneers carved a way of peace
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Speaker 1: for the pilgrims of today. Considering the foregoing such a
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Speaker 1: book as this, presenting as it does in readable form,
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Speaker 1: the Arizona West as it really was, is in my opinion,
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Speaker 1: most opportune and fills the real need the people have had.
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Speaker 1: Fiction stories from the capable pens of Stuart Edward White
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Speaker 1: and his companions in the realm of Western literature, and
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Speaker 1: have doubtless enjoyed the refreshing atmosphere and during originality. But
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Speaker 1: despite this fiction localized in the West and founded however,
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Speaker 1: much on fact does not supply all the needs of
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Speaker 1: the Eastern reader, who demands the truth about those old
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Speaker 1: days presented in a compact and intimate form. I cannot
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Speaker 1: too greatly emphasize that word intimate, for it signifies to
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Speaker 1: me the quality that has been most lacking in authoritative
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Speaker 1: works on the Western country. When I first met Captain Cady,
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Speaker 1: I found him the very personification of what he ought
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Speaker 1: not to have been, considering the fact that he is
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Speaker 1: one of the oldest pioneers in Arizona. Instead of peacefully
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Speaker 1: awaiting the close of a long and active career in
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Speaker 1: some old soldier's home, I found him energetically superintending the
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Speaker 1: hotel he owns at Patagonia, Satakruz County, and with a
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Speaker 1: badly burned hand. At that there he was with a
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Speaker 1: characteristic chef's top dress on him. Caddy is well known
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Speaker 1: as a first class cook, standing behind the wood fire
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Speaker 1: range himself permitting no one else to do the cooking,
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Speaker 1: allowing no one else to show the responsibilities that he,
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Speaker 1: as a man, decidedly in the autumn of life, should,
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Speaker 1: by all the rules of the game have long since relinquished.
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Speaker 1: Where this grizzled old Indian fighter near his threescore and
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Speaker 1: ten should have been white haired, he was but gray.
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Speaker 1: Where he should have been inflicted with the kindred illnesses
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Speaker 1: of advancing old age, he simply owned up and sheepish
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Speaker 1: ire he had thought to a burned hand. Where he
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Speaker 1: should have been willing to lay down his share of
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Speaker 1: civic responsibility and let the young fellows have a go
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Speaker 1: at the game. He was, as ever on the firing line,
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Speaker 1: his name in the local paper a half a dozen
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Speaker 1: times each week. Oh no, it is wrong to say
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Speaker 1: that John H. Caddy was a fighter. Wrong in the
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Speaker 1: spirit of it. For you see, he is very much
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Speaker 1: of a fighter now. He has lost not one whit
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Speaker 1: of that aggressive goodness and sterling courage that he always
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Speaker 1: has owned, the only difference being that instead of fighting
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Speaker 1: Indians and bad men, he is now fighting the forces
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Speaker 1: of evil within his own town, and contesting as well
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Speaker 1: the grim advances made by the relentless reaper in travels
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Speaker 1: that have taken me over a good slice of mother Earth,
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Speaker 1: and that have brought me into contact with all sorts
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Speaker 1: and conditions of men, I have never met one whose
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Speaker 1: friendship I would rather have than that of John H. Cady.
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Speaker 1: If I were to sum him up, I would say
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Speaker 1: he is a true man, a true father, a true
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Speaker 1: and courageous fighter, and a true American. He is a
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Speaker 1: man anybody would far sooner have with him than against
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Speaker 1: him in the controversy. If so far as world's standards go,
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Speaker 1: he has not a chief fame, I had rather call
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Speaker 1: it notoriety. It is because of the fact that present
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Speaker 1: day's standards do not fit the men whom they ignore.
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Speaker 1: With those other men who were the wet nurses of
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Speaker 1: the West in its infantile civilization, this hardy pioneer should
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Speaker 1: be honored by the present generation and his name handed
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Speaker 1: down to posterity as that of one who fought the
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Speaker 1: good fight of progress and fought well with weapons which,
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Speaker 1: if perhaps crude and clumsy as the age was, crude
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Speaker 1: and clumsy, judged by twentieth century stunteds or at least
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Speaker 1: most remarkably effective. The subject of this autobiography has traveled
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Speaker 1: to many out of the way places and accomplished many
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Speaker 1: remarkable things. But the most astonishing thing about him is
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Speaker 1: the casual and unaffected way in which he, in retrospect,
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Speaker 1: views his extraordinarily active life. He talks to me unconsideredly,
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Speaker 1: of tramping hundreds of miles across a barren desert, people
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Speaker 1: with hostile Indians, as though it were merely a street
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Speaker 1: car trip up the thoroughfares of one of Arizona's progressive cities.
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Speaker 1: He talks of desperate rides through a wild and dangerous country,
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Speaker 1: of little scraps, as he terms them, with bonds of
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Speaker 1: murderous apaches, of meteoric rises from hired hand to wrench foreman,
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Speaker 1: of adventurous expeditions into the realm of trade when everything
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Speaker 1: was a risk in a land of uncertain of journeys
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Speaker 1: through a foreign and wild country. Did broke of these
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Speaker 1: and many similar things, as though they were commonplace incidents,
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Speaker 1: scarcely worthy of mention. Yet the story of Caddy's life is,
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Speaker 1: i venture to state, one of the most gripping and
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Speaker 1: interesting ever told, both from a historical and from a
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Speaker 1: human point of view. It illustrates vividly the varied fortunes
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Speaker 1: encountered by an adventurous pioneer of the old days in Arizona,
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Speaker 1: and contains besides historical facts not before the recorded that
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Speaker 1: cannot help making the work of unfailing interest to all
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Speaker 1: who know or wish to know the state. For you, then,
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Speaker 1: the reader, who love or wish to know the state
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Speaker 1: of Arizona, with its painted deserts, its glorious skies, its
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Speaker 1: wonderful mountains, its magical horizons, its imlimitable distances, its romantic past,
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Speaker 1: and its magnificent possibilities. This little book has been written
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Speaker 1: basal dealing and of dedication and preface, Chapter one, Arizona's Yesterday,
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Speaker 1: by John Katie and Basilwoon. This LibriVox recording is in
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Speaker 1: the public domain recording by Tony Poissante, The Boy's Soldier
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Speaker 1: for the right that needs assistance, for the wrong that
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Speaker 1: needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the
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Speaker 1: good that they could do. Fourteen years before that broad,
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Speaker 1: bloody line began to be drawn between the north and
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Speaker 1: the South of the United States of America, before there
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Speaker 1: came the terrific clash of steel and muscle, in front
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Speaker 1: of which the entire world retreated to a distance, horrified, mazed, fascinated,
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Speaker 1: and confounded. Before there came the dreadful day when families
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Speaker 1: were estranged and birthright surrendered, loves sacrificed, and the blight
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Speaker 1: of the bullet placed on hundreds of thousands of sturdy hearts.
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Speaker 1: Fourteen years before this, on the banks of the Mighty
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Speaker 1: Ohio at Cincinnati, I was born on September fifteenth, eighteen
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Speaker 1: forty six. My parents were John and Caddy of Cincinnati,
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Speaker 1: and Maria Klingman Caddy, who was of German descent and
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Speaker 1: whom I remember little, owing to the fact that she
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Speaker 1: died when I reached my third birthday. Ah Cincinnati, to me,
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Speaker 1: you shall always be my city of destiny, for it
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Speaker 1: was within your boundaries that I, boy and man met
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Speaker 1: my several fates. One sent me through the turmoil and
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Speaker 1: suffering of the Civil War. Anothers sent me westward, mounted
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Speaker 1: on the wings of youthful hope and ambition. For that
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Speaker 1: alone I am ever in the dead of Ohio's Ferris City,
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Speaker 1: which I hope to see again some day. Before their
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Speaker 1: sounds were me the taps, but I do not know.
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Speaker 1: The tide of life is more than past its end.
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Speaker 1: For me, and I should be thinking more of a
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Speaker 1: why I rest on the hillside, my face turned to
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Speaker 1: the turquoise blue of Arizona's matchless infinity, until the treading
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Speaker 1: again of noisy city streets in the country of my birth.
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Speaker 1: But this is to be a story of Arizona, and
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Speaker 1: I must hasten through the events that occurred prior to
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Speaker 1: my leaving for the West. When I had reached three
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Speaker 1: years of age, my father married again a milliner, and
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Speaker 1: moved to Philadelphia. My grandmother, who had raised me prctically
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Speaker 1: from birth, removed with me to Maysville in Kentucky, where
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Speaker 1: I was sent to school. Some of my pleasantest memories
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Speaker 1: now are of that period in the old fashioned Kentucky rivertown.
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Speaker 1: Just after my ninth birthday, my father came back to Maysville,
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Speaker 1: claimed me, took me to Philadelphia with him, and afterwards
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Speaker 1: turned me over to one William Turner, his wife's brother,
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Speaker 1: who was the owner of a farm on the eastern
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Speaker 1: shore of Maryland. I stayed at the Turner farm until
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Speaker 1: the outbreak of the Civil War. In a fall of
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Speaker 1: sixty one, when my father, who was then working for
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Speaker 1: Devlen and Sons Cluthiers, with head voters at Broadway and
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Speaker 1: Warren Streets, New York City, enlisted in Deree's Zuavees as
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Speaker 1: orderly sergeant in Company K. The Zuavees wintered at Federal Hill, Baltimore,
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Speaker 1: and I joined my father and a regiment there. In
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Speaker 1: the spring we moved to Washington, joining there the Great
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Speaker 1: Army of the Potomac, with which we stayed during that
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Speaker 1: army's succession of magnificent battles until after the Fredericksburg Fight
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Speaker 1: in sixty three. In Washington, we recorded at Arlington Heights,
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Speaker 1: and I remember that I used to make pocket money
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Speaker 1: by buying papers at the Washington Railway depot and selling
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Speaker 1: them on the heights. Papers were, of course full of
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Speaker 1: nothing but war news, some of them owing their initial
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Speaker 1: publication to the war. So great was the public's natural
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Speaker 1: desire for news of the Titantic struggle that was engulfing
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Speaker 1: the continent. Then as now. There were many conflicting statements
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Speaker 1: as to the movement of troops and so forth, but
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Speaker 1: the war correspondents had full reign to write as they pleased,
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Speaker 1: and the efforts of some of them stand out my
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Speaker 1: memory to day as marvels of word painning. And penned rhetoric,
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Speaker 1: and Grant took command of the Army of the Potomac.
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Speaker 1: I left the army three or four days before reinforcements
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Speaker 1: for General Sherman, who was then making preparations for his
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Speaker 1: famous March to the Sea, left for Kentucky. At a
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Speaker 1: Geary Creek near Washington, I purchased a cargo of apples
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Speaker 1: for nine hundred dollars, my first of two exceedingly profitable
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Speaker 1: ventures in the apple selling industry, and after selling them
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Speaker 1: at a handsome profit, followed Sherman's reinforcements as far as Cincinnati.
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Speaker 1: I did not at this time stay long in the
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Speaker 1: city of my birth, going in a few days to
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Speaker 1: Camp Nelson, Kentucky, where I obtained work driving artillery horses
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Speaker 1: to Atlanta and bringing back to Chattanooga condemned army stock.
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Speaker 1: Even at that time eighteen sixty four, the proud old
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Speaker 1: city of Atlanta felt the shadow of its impending doom,
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Speaker 1: but few believed Sherman would go to the lengths he did.
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Speaker 1: After the close of the war in eighteen sixty five
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Speaker 1: and listed in Cincinnati on October twelfth, and the California
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Speaker 1: Rocky Mountain Service before this However, I had shipped then
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Speaker 1: the ram Vindicator of the Mississippi Squadron, and after being
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Speaker 1: transferred to the gunboat Siren, had helped move the Navy
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Speaker 1: yard from Mound City, Illinois to Jefferson Barracks, Saint Louis, Missouri,
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Speaker 1: where it still is. I was drafted in the first
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Speaker 1: United States Cavalry and sent to Carlisle Barracks in Pennsylvania,
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Speaker 1: from which place I traveled to New Orleans, where I
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Speaker 1: joined my regiment. I was allotted the company. See I
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Speaker 1: remember my officers to have been Captain Dean, first Lieutenant Vale,
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Speaker 1: and second Lieutenant Winners. Soon after my arrival in New Orleans,
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Speaker 1: we commenced their journey to California, then the golden country
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Speaker 1: of every man's dreams and the mecca of every man's ambition.
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Speaker 1: End of chapter one, Chapter two Arizona's Yesterday by John
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Speaker 1: Caddy and Basil Womb. This LibriVox recording is in the
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Speaker 1: public domain, according by Tony Possante following the Argonauts. So
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Speaker 1: it's westward ho for the land of worth where he
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Speaker 1: is not was is vital but bron for praise must
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Speaker 1: win the earth nor risk its new born title. What
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Speaker 1: a dam a man is to say he ran and
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Speaker 1: heedless sees us on where the thrill of strife is
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Speaker 1: the spice of life, and the creed is guard your
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Speaker 1: own wound. When a fast male steamer, which had carried
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Speaker 1: us from the Isthmus of Panama, we had journeyed to
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Speaker 1: the Isthmus from New Orleans, and a little transport mc clellan,
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Speaker 1: steamed through the Golden Gate and anchored off the presidio.
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Speaker 1: I looked with great eagerness and curiosity, and the wonderful
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Speaker 1: city none in those days as the toughest hole on earth,
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Speaker 1: of which I had read and heard so much, and
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Speaker 1: which I had so longed to see. I saw a
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Speaker 1: city rising on terraces from the smooth waters of a
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Speaker 1: glorious bay, whose wavelets were tempered by the sunshine that
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Speaker 1: was as brilliant as it was ineffective against the keen
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Speaker 1: sea breeze of winter. The fog that had obscured our
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Speaker 1: sight outside the Golden Gate was now gone, vanished like
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Speaker 1: the mist wraiths of the long ago philosophers, and the
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Speaker 1: glorious city of San Francisco was revealed to view. I
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Speaker 1: say glorious, but the term must be understood to apply
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Speaker 1: only to the city's surroundings, which were in truth magnificent.
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Speaker 1: She looked like some imperial goddess, her forehead encircled by
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Speaker 1: the faint band of mist that still lingered caressingly to
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Speaker 1: the mountain tops, her countenance glistening with the dew on
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Speaker 1: the green hill slopes. Her garments, quaintly fashioned by the civilization,
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Speaker 1: had brought her into being, her slippers the lustrous waters
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Speaker 1: of the bay itself. Later I came to know that
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Speaker 1: she too was a goddess of moods and dangerous moods,
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Speaker 1: a coquette to sum love to others, and to many,
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Speaker 1: a heartless vampire that sucked from them their hard wrung dust,
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Speaker 1: scattered their gold, of the four winds of avarice that
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Speaker 1: ever circled enticingly about the vortex of shallow joys that
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Speaker 1: the city harbored, and after intoxicating them with their beauty
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Speaker 1: and her wine, flung them aside to make ready for
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Speaker 1: the next comer too well. Had San Francisco merited the
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Speaker 1: title I give it in the opening lines of this chapter.
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Speaker 1: Some say that the earthquake and the fire a mike
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Speaker 1: vitriol cast on the features of a beautiful woman for
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Speaker 1: the prostitution of her charms, and I lost little to
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Speaker 1: her lures. Am not one to judge. My memories of
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Speaker 1: San Francisco are at any rate a trifle hazy now,
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Speaker 1: for its many many years since I last saw the
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Speaker 1: sun set over the Marin Hills, A narrow has passed
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Speaker 1: since the glamour of the coast of high Barbary claimed
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Speaker 1: my youthful attention. But I remember a city as evil
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Speaker 1: within as it was lovely without, a city where gathered
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Speaker 1: the very dregs of humanity from the four corners of
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Speaker 1: the earth. What Port said is now San Francisco was
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Speaker 1: then only worse. For every crime that is committed in
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Speaker 1: the dark galleys of the Siouxez Port or the equally
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Speaker 1: murcy Cajuns of the pestles of Mexico, four were committed
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Speaker 1: in the beautiful Californian town. When I first went there,
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Speaker 1: women as well as men carried hardware strapped outside, and
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Speaker 1: scarcely one who had not at some time found this
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Speaker 1: precaution useful. The city abounded with footpads and ruffians of
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Speaker 1: every nationality and description, whose prices for cutting a throat
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Speaker 1: or rolling a stiff depending on in cupidity of the moment,
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Speaker 1: or on the quantity of liquor that capacious stomachs held.
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Speaker 1: Scores of killings occurred an excited little comment. Thousands of
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Speaker 1: men were daily passing in and out of the city,
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Speaker 1: drawn by the lure of the Sierra goldfields. Some of
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Speaker 1: these came back with the joy of dreams come true
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Speaker 1: and full pokes hung around their necks. Some came with
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Speaker 1: the misery of utter failure in their hearts, and some
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Speaker 1: last they were many returned not at all. Barbary Coasts
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Speaker 1: was fast skating for itself noneviable reputation throughout the world.
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Speaker 1: Every time one walked on Pacific Street with any money
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Speaker 1: in pocket, he took his life in his hand. Guard
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Speaker 1: Jerome was the accepted creed of the time, and woe
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Speaker 1: to whom who could not do so. Gold was thrown
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Speaker 1: about like water. The dancing girls made fabulous sums as
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Speaker 1: commissions on drinks. Their consorts could be persuaded by hundreds
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Speaker 1: of thousands of dollars were spent nightly in the great
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Speaker 1: temples devoted to gambling, and their men risks on the
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Speaker 1: luck of a moment or the turn of a pained wheel.
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Speaker 1: Fortunes wrung from the soil by months and sometimes years
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Speaker 1: of terrific work in the diggings. The most famous gamblers
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Speaker 1: of the West that time made their headquarters in San Francisco,
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Speaker 1: and they came from all countries. England contributed not a
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Speaker 1: few of these gentlemen traders and the caprices of fortune, France,
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Speaker 1: her Quota, Germany, very few in China many but these
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Speaker 1: latus possessed the dives, the lowest kind of gambling, places,
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Speaker 1: where men went only when they were desperate and did
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Speaker 1: not care. We were not, at this time, however, to
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Speaker 1: be given an opportunity to see as much San Francisco
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Speaker 1: as most of us would have liked. After a short
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Speaker 1: stay at the Presidio, we were sent to Wilmington, then
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Speaker 1: a small port in the southern part of the state,
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Speaker 1: but now incorporated in the great city of Los Angeles.
21:23
Speaker 1: Here we drew our horses for the long trek across
21:25
Speaker 1: the desert to our future home in the territory of Arizona.
21:28
Speaker 1: There was no railroad at that time in California, the
21:31
Speaker 1: line not even having been surveyed as far as San Jose,
21:34
Speaker 1: which was already a city. But instead of being as
21:37
Speaker 1: now a marketplace for a dozen fertile and beautiful valleys.
21:40
Speaker 1: She was then merely an outfitting point for parties of travelers, prospectors, cattlemen,
21:45
Speaker 1: and the light, and was also a station in terminus
21:48
Speaker 1: for various stage lines. Through San Jose. Too came those
21:53
Speaker 1: of the gold seekers bound for the high Sierras on
21:56
Speaker 1: the border of the desert, who had not taken the
21:58
Speaker 1: Sacramento River route and had to side. Had the brave
22:00
Speaker 1: instead the dangers of the trail through the fertile San
22:02
Speaker 1: mu Quin up to the Feather River and thus into
22:05
Speaker 1: the diggings above Virginia City. Gold had been found by
22:08
Speaker 1: that time, and Nevada and hundreds of intrepid men were
22:11
Speaker 1: facing the awful Majave and Nevada deserts, lazing hot in
22:14
Speaker 1: daytime and acy cold to night to seek the new
22:17
Speaker 1: El Dorados. Since this is a book about pioneers, and
22:21
Speaker 1: since sim one of them, it is fitting stay awhile
22:24
Speaker 1: and consider what civilization owes to These daring souls formed
22:27
Speaker 1: the vanguard of her army. Cecil Roads opened an empire
22:31
Speaker 1: by mobilizing of black races. Jim Hill opened another when
22:34
Speaker 1: he struck westward with steel rails. But the pioneers of
22:37
Speaker 1: the Earl of gold Rushes raided an empire of immense
22:39
Speaker 1: riches with no other aid than their own narrow hands
22:42
Speaker 1: and sturdy hearts. They opened up a country as vast
22:45
Speaker 1: as it was rich, and wrested from the very bosom
22:47
Speaker 1: of Mother Earth treasures that had been heard just keeping
22:50
Speaker 1: for ages before the air of man. A brave sudden death,
22:55
Speaker 1: death from thirst and starvation, deaths from prowling savages, death
22:59
Speaker 1: from the wild creepatures, all that the work of man
23:02
Speaker 1: might flourish where they had not feared to tread. It
23:05
Speaker 1: is dirony of fate that these old pioneers, many of
23:08
Speaker 1: whom hated civilization, were fleeing from her guiles, should have
23:12
Speaker 1: been the advance guard of the very power they sought
23:14
Speaker 1: to avoid. The vast empire of Western America is strewn
23:19
Speaker 1: with the bones of these men. Some of them lie
23:21
Speaker 1: in kindly resting places, the grass over their graves kept
23:25
Speaker 1: green by loving friends. Some lie uncared for in potter's
23:29
Speaker 1: fields or in cemeteries of homes for the aged. And
23:32
Speaker 1: some a vast horde still lie, bleached and grim, hot
23:36
Speaker 1: sand drifted over them by the desert winds. But wherever
23:40
Speaker 1: they lie, all honored pioneer, there should be a day
23:43
Speaker 1: set apart which every American should revere the memory of
23:46
Speaker 1: those men of long ago who hewed a way for
23:49
Speaker 1: the soft paths that faulted the generation of day. What
23:53
Speaker 1: Sambordino is now to the westbound traveler, Wilmington was then
23:58
Speaker 1: the end of the desert. From women Tin eastwards stretched
24:01
Speaker 1: one tremendous ocean of sand, interspersed here and there by
24:04
Speaker 1: majestic mountains, in the fastness of which little fertile valleys
24:07
Speaker 1: with clear mountain streams were to be discovered later by
24:10
Speaker 1: the pioneer homesteaders, where now are miles upon miles of
24:14
Speaker 1: yellow fruited orange and lemon groves, trained care and knowledge
24:17
Speaker 1: of a later generation of scientific farmers, where then only
24:21
Speaker 1: dreary barren wastes, with only the mountains and clumps of sagebrush,
24:26
Speaker 1: soak weed, cac ed eye creasesa bushes and bisquite to
24:29
Speaker 1: break the everlasting monotony of the prospect. Farming then, indeed,
24:34
Speaker 1: was almost as little thought of as irrigation, for men's
24:37
Speaker 1: mines were fixed on the star of whitest Brilliancy gold
24:41
Speaker 1: men even made fortunes in the diggings, and returned east
24:44
Speaker 1: and bought farms, every realizing that what might be pushed
24:47
Speaker 1: above the soil of California was destined to prove a
24:50
Speaker 1: far greater consequence than anything men would ever find hidden beneath.
24:55
Speaker 1: March to Arizona was both difficult and dangerous, and was
24:58
Speaker 1: to be attempted safely only by large parties. Water was
25:02
Speaker 1: scarce than wells few and far between, and there were
25:05
Speaker 1: several stretches, as for instance that between what are now
25:09
Speaker 1: known as the Imperial Mountains and Yuma, of more than
25:12
Speaker 1: sixty miles with no water at all. Well at Dos
25:16
Speaker 1: Palmas was not dug until a later date. Across these stretches,
25:20
Speaker 1: the traveler had depend on what water he could manage
25:23
Speaker 1: to pack, and canteen strung around his waist, around his
25:25
Speaker 1: horse or mule on the march were often to be seen,
25:29
Speaker 1: as they are still those wonderful desert mirages of which
25:32
Speaker 1: so much has been written by explorers and scientists. Sometimes
25:36
Speaker 1: these took the form of lakes fringed with palms, which
25:38
Speaker 1: tantalized and ever kept mockingly at a distance. Many the
25:42
Speaker 1: desert traveler who has been cruelly deceived by these mirages. Yuma,
25:47
Speaker 1: of which I have just spoken is famed for many reasons.
25:50
Speaker 1: For one thing, the story that the United States Army
25:53
Speaker 1: officers raised the temperature of the place thirty degrees to
25:56
Speaker 1: be relieved from duty there has been laughed at wherever
25:59
Speaker 1: Americans been wont to congregate. And that old story told
26:02
Speaker 1: by Sherman of the soldier who died at Yuma after
26:05
Speaker 1: living in a particularly vicious existence here below, and who
26:08
Speaker 1: soon afterward telegraphed from Hades for his blankets, and also
26:12
Speaker 1: done much to heighten the reputation of the little city,
26:14
Speaker 1: which sometimes still has applied to it the distinctions being
26:17
Speaker 1: the hottest place in the United States. This, however, is
26:20
Speaker 1: scarcely correct, as many places in the Southwest Neils in
26:24
Speaker 1: California and the Imperial Valley are examples, have often demonstrated
26:28
Speaker 1: higher temperatures than have ever been known at Yuma. A
26:31
Speaker 1: summer at the little Colorado River town is quite hot enough, however,
26:34
Speaker 1: please the most tropical savage. It may be remarked here
26:38
Speaker 1: in justice to the rest of the state, that the
26:40
Speaker 1: temperature of Yuma is not typical of Arizona as a whole.
26:44
Speaker 1: In the region I now live, the Senoida Valley in
26:47
Speaker 1: the southeastern part of the state, and portions around Prescott.
26:51
Speaker 1: Summer temperatures are markedly cool and temperate. Huma, however, is
26:55
Speaker 1: not famed for temperature alone. In fact, that feature of
26:59
Speaker 1: its claim to notice is least to be considered. A
27:02
Speaker 1: real noteworthy fact about Yuma from historical point of view
27:05
Speaker 1: is that, as Arizona City, it was one of the
27:07
Speaker 1: earliest settled points in the territory, and was at first
27:10
Speaker 1: easily the most important. The root of the major portion
27:13
Speaker 1: of the forty nine ers took them across the Colorado River,
27:16
Speaker 1: where fort Yuma was situated on the California side, and
27:19
Speaker 1: the trend of exploration, business and commerce a few years
27:22
Speaker 1: later flowed westward to Yuma over the picturesque plains of
27:26
Speaker 1: the gats and purchase. Famous California column ferried itself across
27:30
Speaker 1: Colorado at Yuma, and later on the overland mail came through.
27:34
Speaker 1: The settlement is now a division point on the Southern
27:37
Speaker 1: Pacific Railway just across the line from California, and has
27:40
Speaker 1: a population of three or four thousand. At the time
27:43
Speaker 1: I first saw the place, there was only fort Yuma
27:46
Speaker 1: on the California side of the river, and a small
27:48
Speaker 1: settlement on the Arizona side called Arizona City. It had
27:52
Speaker 1: formerly been called Colorado City, but the name was changed
27:55
Speaker 1: when the town was permanently settled. There were two ferries
27:58
Speaker 1: in operation at Yuma when a company arrived there, one
28:01
Speaker 1: of them run by the peaceable Yume Indians and the
28:05
Speaker 1: other by a company had to buy Don Diego yeaher
28:07
Speaker 1: in Hartshorn fort Yuma had been established in eighteen fifty
28:11
Speaker 1: one by Major Heidselman, USA, but on the scurvy see
28:15
Speaker 1: Delong's History of Arizona and the great difficulty in getting
28:19
Speaker 1: supplies the Colorado River being then uncharged for traffic, it
28:22
Speaker 1: was abandoned and not permanently re established until a year
28:25
Speaker 1: later when Major Heidselman returned from San Diego. The town
28:29
Speaker 1: side of Colorado City was laid out in eighteen fifty four,
28:33
Speaker 1: but floods wiped out the town, with the result that
28:35
Speaker 1: a permanent settlement called Arizona City was not established until
28:38
Speaker 1: about eighteen sixty two, four years before I reached there.
28:43
Speaker 1: First steamboat to reach Yuma with supplies was the Uncle Sam,
28:46
Speaker 1: which arrived in eighteen fifty two. Of all this I
28:49
Speaker 1: can tell, of course, only by hearsay, but there is
28:52
Speaker 1: no doubt that the successful voyage of the Uncle Sam
28:55
Speaker 1: to Yuma established the importance of that place and gave
28:57
Speaker 1: it pre eminence over any other shipping point in territories.
29:00
Speaker 1: For a long time till the coming of the railroad,
29:04
Speaker 1: supplies for Arizona were shipped from San Francisco to the
29:07
Speaker 1: mouth of Colorado and ferried from there up the river
29:09
Speaker 1: to Yuma, being there transferred to long wagon trains which
29:13
Speaker 1: traveled across the plains to Tucson, which was then the
29:16
Speaker 1: distributing point for the whole territory. Tucson was, of course
29:21
Speaker 1: the chief city. I say city only in courtesy, for
29:24
Speaker 1: it was such in importance only its size, being smaller
29:27
Speaker 1: than an ordinary eastern village. Ruscott, which was the first
29:32
Speaker 1: territorial capital, Tubac, considered by many the oldest settled town
29:36
Speaker 1: in Arizona, near which the famous mines worked by Sylvester
29:40
Speaker 1: Mowori were located. Arenberg, an important stage point, Sacaton in
29:46
Speaker 1: the Pima and Maricopa Indian country, and other small settlements
29:49
Speaker 1: such as Apache Pass, which was a fort, were already
29:53
Speaker 1: in existence. He had some purchase, having been a very
29:57
Speaker 1: recent date. Most of the population was Indian, after which
30:01
Speaker 1: came to Mexicans and Spaniards, and then the Americans, who
30:04
Speaker 1: arrogantly termed themselves the whites, although the Spaniards possessed fully
30:08
Speaker 1: as white a complexion as the average pioneer from the
30:10
Speaker 1: Eastern States. Until recently, the Indian dominated the white man
30:14
Speaker 1: in Arizona in point of numbers, but fortunately only one
30:17
Speaker 1: Indian race, The Apache, showed unrelenting hostility to the white
30:21
Speaker 1: man and his works, and all the Arizona Indians men
30:24
Speaker 1: his hostile as worthy Apaches. Probabilities are that the settlement
30:28
Speaker 1: of Arizona by the Whites would have been of a
30:30
Speaker 1: far more recent date. For an instance, after instance, the
30:34
Speaker 1: Americans in Arizona were obliged to rely on the help
30:37
Speaker 1: of the peaceful Indians to combat the rapacious Apaches. Hume
30:41
Speaker 1: is the place where the infamous Doc Glanton and his
30:43
Speaker 1: gang operated. This was long before my time, and as
30:47
Speaker 1: province of this book is merely to tell the story
30:49
Speaker 1: of life and the territory as I saw it. It
30:51
Speaker 1: has no place within these pages. May however, be mentioned
30:55
Speaker 1: that Glanton was the leader of a notorious gang of
30:58
Speaker 1: freebooters who established ferrier Rust Colorado, Yuma and used it
31:02
Speaker 1: as a hold up scheme to trap on wary emigrants.
31:05
Speaker 1: The Yuma Indians also operated a ferry for which they
31:09
Speaker 1: had hired as pilot a white man whom some asserted
31:13
Speaker 1: to have been a deserter from the United States Army.
31:16
Speaker 1: One day, Glanton and his gang, angered at the successful
31:19
Speaker 1: rivalry of the Indians, fell on them and slew the pilot.
31:23
Speaker 1: The glat and gang was subsequently wiped out by the
31:26
Speaker 1: Indians in retaliation. When the HeLa City gold rush set in,
31:30
Speaker 1: Yuma was the point to which the Avengers came to
31:33
Speaker 1: reach the new city. I have heard that as many
31:36
Speaker 1: as three thousand gold seekers congregated at this fine, and
31:39
Speaker 1: nothing is now to be seen of the former town
31:41
Speaker 1: but a few old deserted shacks and some Indian wikiops.
31:45
Speaker 1: Gold is still occasionally found in small quantities along the
31:48
Speaker 1: Hilo River near this point, but the immense placer deposits
31:51
Speaker 1: have long since disappeared, although experts have been quoted saying
31:54
Speaker 1: that the company brave enough to explore the fastness of
31:57
Speaker 1: the mountains back of the Heila at this point will
31:59
Speaker 1: probably be rewarded by finding rich gold mines. I will
32:03
Speaker 1: not dwell on the hardships of that desert march from
32:05
Speaker 1: Human to Tucson for which the rigors of the Civil
32:08
Speaker 1: War had fortunately prepared most of us. Further than to say,
32:11
Speaker 1: it was many long, weary days before he finally came
32:14
Speaker 1: to sight of the old Pueblo in Tucson. I became
32:18
Speaker 1: soon after our arrival, twenty years old. I was a
32:21
Speaker 1: fairly hearty youngster too. We camped in Tucson, a piece
32:25
Speaker 1: of ground in the center of town, and soon after
32:27
Speaker 1: our arrival, where we set to work making clean, orderly
32:29
Speaker 1: camp park out of the wilderness of kretosol bushes and mesquite.
32:33
Speaker 1: I remember that for some offense against the powers of
32:36
Speaker 1: the day, I was then serving time for a short while,
32:39
Speaker 1: and among other things, I cut shrub on the side
32:41
Speaker 1: of Tucson's military plaza with an inelegant piece of iron
32:45
Speaker 1: chain dangling uncomfortably from my left leg. Oh, I wasn't
32:49
Speaker 1: a saint in those days anymore, and I am particularly
32:51
Speaker 1: bright candidate for wings and harp. Now. I gave my
32:55
Speaker 1: superior officers fully as much trouble as the rest of
32:58
Speaker 1: em Ducson's military Plaza, it may be mentioned here, was
33:03
Speaker 1: as stated, cleared by Company C, first United States Cavalry,
33:07
Speaker 1: and that body of troops is the only lot of
33:09
Speaker 1: soldiery they ever camped on that spot, which is now historic,
33:13
Speaker 1: and after years it was known as Camp Lowell, and
33:16
Speaker 1: that name is still applied to a fort some seven
33:18
Speaker 1: miles east to Tucson. Captain Dean had not come with
33:22
Speaker 1: us to Arizona, having been taken ill in California and
33:25
Speaker 1: invalided whom pettennan Veil, or as he was entitled to
33:30
Speaker 1: be called, Brevet Major Veil, commanded Company C in his absence,
33:34
Speaker 1: and he had under him as fearless a set of
33:37
Speaker 1: men as could be found anywhere in the country in
33:39
Speaker 1: those days. Vale himself was the highest type of officer,
33:43
Speaker 1: stern and unbending, were discipline was concerned, and eminently courageous.
33:48
Speaker 1: Second Lieutenant Winners was a man of the same stamp,
33:51
Speaker 1: and both men became well known in the territory within
33:54
Speaker 1: a few months after their arrival because of their numerous
33:57
Speaker 1: and successful forays against marauding Indians. Nell is alive yet,
34:01
Speaker 1: or was a short time ago. After some weeks in Tucson,
34:05
Speaker 1: which was then the typical western town people by miners, assayers, surveyors, tradespeople,
34:11
Speaker 1: a stray banker or two, and lastman not at least
34:14
Speaker 1: by any means, gamblers. We were moved to Old Camp Grant,
34:18
Speaker 1: which was situated several hundred yards of downstream from the
34:21
Speaker 1: point where the Aravapie Creek runs into the San Pedro.
34:25
Speaker 1: Among others whom I remember as living in Tucson are
34:28
Speaker 1: near neighborhood in eighteen sixty six were Henry Glassman, Tom Yerkies,
34:33
Speaker 1: Lord and Williams, Pete Kitchen, HM Tongue, the Kelsey Boys,
34:38
Speaker 1: Sandy McClatchy, Green Rusk, Frank Hodge, Alex Levin, Bob Crandell Wheat,
34:46
Speaker 1: Smith Turner, Old Pike. Glassman lived most of the time
34:52
Speaker 1: at Tubac. Yerkes owned the Settler's store in Tubac. Lord
34:55
Speaker 1: and Williams owned the Chief Store in TUCSONA were agents
34:58
Speaker 1: for the United States Mail. Pete Kitchen was at Potero Ranch,
35:02
Speaker 1: but Pete, who was more feared by the Indians than
35:04
Speaker 1: any white man in territory, deserves a whole chapter to himself.
35:08
Speaker 1: Tongue was a storekeeper. Green Rusk owned a popular dance
35:11
Speaker 1: house Hodge and Levin had a saloon. We owned a
35:15
Speaker 1: saloon and afterwards a ranch near Florence. The remainder were
35:18
Speaker 1: mostly gamblers, good fellows, every one of them. Old Pike especially,
35:23
Speaker 1: was a character whose memory is now finally cherished by
35:25
Speaker 1: a pioneer who knew him. He could win or lose
35:28
Speaker 1: with the same perpetual joviality, but he generally won. The
35:32
Speaker 1: principal gambling game in those days was Mexican monte, played
35:35
Speaker 1: with forty cards. Poker was also played a great deal. Keino,
35:39
Speaker 1: pharo and roulette were not introduced until later, and the
35:43
Speaker 1: same may be said of Pengingi the Scandinavian game. There
35:48
Speaker 1: were several tribes of Apaches wintering at Camp Grant the
35:50
Speaker 1: winter we went there, if I remember correctly, among them
35:54
Speaker 1: being Tanto's and the Ravapies. All of them, however, were
35:57
Speaker 1: under the authority of one chief, Oldesti, one of the
36:01
Speaker 1: most bloodthirsty and vindictive of all the old Apache leaders.
36:04
Speaker 1: The government fed these Apaches well during the winter in
36:07
Speaker 1: return for pledges they made to keep to peace. This
36:10
Speaker 1: was due to the altruism of some mistaken gentlemen and
36:13
Speaker 1: the councils of authority in the East, who knew nothing
36:15
Speaker 1: of conditions in the territory, and who wrongly believed that
36:19
Speaker 1: the word of an Apache Indian would hold good. We
36:22
Speaker 1: who knew the Indian understood differently, but we were obliged
36:25
Speaker 1: to obey orders, even though these were responsible in part
36:28
Speaker 1: for the many Indian tragedies that followed. Apache was a
36:32
Speaker 1: curious character by nature and nomad, a temper of a fighter,
36:36
Speaker 1: and from birth a hater of white man. He saw
36:39
Speaker 1: nothing good in the ways of civilization except that which
36:42
Speaker 1: fed him, and he took that only as a means
36:44
Speaker 1: to an end. Often an Indian chief would solemnly swear
36:49
Speaker 1: to keep the peace with his white brethren for a
36:51
Speaker 1: period of months, and the next day go forth on
36:53
Speaker 1: a mariting expedition and kill as many of his beloved
36:56
Speaker 1: brethren as he could lay his hands on, every dead
36:59
Speaker 1: white man as a feather in some Apache's head dress,
37:02
Speaker 1: for so they regarded it. One day, Chief Eskamezzlan appeared
37:07
Speaker 1: with a protest from the tribes against the quality of
37:09
Speaker 1: the rations they were receiving. It was only spring in
37:12
Speaker 1: the protest, as we well knew, was merely his way
37:15
Speaker 1: of saying that the Indians were no longer dependent what
37:17
Speaker 1: the government offered, could now hunt their own meat. Our
37:21
Speaker 1: commanding officer endeavored to placate the old chief went back
37:24
Speaker 1: for a conference with his men. He then reappeared, threw
37:27
Speaker 1: down his rations, the others doing the same, and in
37:29
Speaker 1: a few minutes the entire encampment of apaches was in
37:32
Speaker 1: the saddle. Some little time after they had gone, Lieutenant Vle,
37:36
Speaker 1: suspecting trouble, sent a man down the trail to investigate.
37:40
Speaker 1: A few miles away was a ranch owned by a
37:41
Speaker 1: man named Israel's. The scout found a ranch devastated, with Israel's,
37:46
Speaker 1: his wife and family brutally slain, and all the stock
37:48
Speaker 1: driven off. He reported the Veil, who had an expedition
37:52
Speaker 1: of retaliation, the first I ever set forth on. He
37:57
Speaker 1: trailed the Indians several days, finally coming up with them
38:00
Speaker 1: and in the pitch battle, killing many of them. This
38:03
Speaker 1: was just a sample of the many similar incidents that
38:05
Speaker 1: occurred from time to time throughout the territory. In variably,
38:09
Speaker 1: the military attempted to find the raiders, and sometimes they
38:11
Speaker 1: were successful, and even now there are sometimes simmerings of
38:15
Speaker 1: discontent among the surviving patches. On their reservation, find it
38:19
Speaker 1: difficult to believe that their day, in the day of
38:21
Speaker 1: the remainder of the Savage Indian race, is gone forever.
38:25
Speaker 1: Was during this stay at Fort Grant that Company C
38:28
Speaker 1: was ordered to escort the first Southern Pacific survey from
38:31
Speaker 1: Apache Pass, which was government Fort Sacaton in the Pemi
38:35
Speaker 1: Indian country. Route bounded with hostile patches and was considered
38:39
Speaker 1: extremely dangerous. I have mentioned this as the first Southern
38:44
Speaker 1: Pacific survey, but this does not mean that there were
38:47
Speaker 1: not before that other surveys of a similar character, looking
38:51
Speaker 1: to the establishment of a transcontinental railroad route through the territory.
38:55
Speaker 1: As early as eighteen fifty one, a survey was made
38:58
Speaker 1: across northern Arizona by Captain Ali Sick Grieves, approximating nearly
39:02
Speaker 1: the present route of the Santa Fe Railroad. A year
39:04
Speaker 1: or two later, ten A. W. Whipple made a survey
39:07
Speaker 1: along the line of the thirty fifth degree parallel. Still later,
39:11
Speaker 1: Lieutenant J. G. Park surveyed a line nearly on that
39:15
Speaker 1: of the Southern Pacific survey. At that time, just before
39:18
Speaker 1: the gads Entreaty. Territory surveyed was in the Republic of Mexico,
39:22
Speaker 1: These surveys were all made by the order of then
39:25
Speaker 1: Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, who aroused a storm of
39:28
Speaker 1: protest in the East against his misguided tension to desolate West.
39:34
Speaker 1: A few statesmen and feure of the outside public in
39:36
Speaker 1: that day possessed prophetic vision to perceive the future greatness
39:39
Speaker 1: of what were termed the arid wastes of Arizona and California.
39:44
Speaker 1: This was shown by the perfect hell of protests that
39:47
Speaker 1: swept to the White House when the terms of the
39:48
Speaker 1: gads and Treaty drawn up by a man who has
39:51
Speaker 1: ministered to a great minor republic at had ample opportunities
39:55
Speaker 1: to study as leisure in the nature of the country
39:57
Speaker 1: and the people with whom he dealt became known. This
40:01
Speaker 1: Southern Pacific Survey party was under the superintendence Chief Engineer
40:05
Speaker 1: Iego I believe that is the way he spelled his name,
40:08
Speaker 1: who was recognized as one of the foremost men in
40:10
Speaker 1: the line in his country. Size of our party, which
40:13
Speaker 1: included thirty surveyors and surveyors as helpers, in addition to
40:17
Speaker 1: the soldier escort, served at a tier of the Indians,
40:20
Speaker 1: and we had no trouble that I remember, it is
40:23
Speaker 1: perhaps worthy of note that the railroad, as it was
40:25
Speaker 1: afterwards built it reached Tucson in eighteen eighty, did not
40:29
Speaker 1: exactly follow the line of this survey, not touching at Sacaton,
40:34
Speaker 1: it passed a few miles south of that point, near
40:36
Speaker 1: the famous Cassa Grande were now as a considerable town.
40:40
Speaker 1: Railroad and all other surveying then was an exceedingly hazardous job,
40:44
Speaker 1: especially in Arizona, where so many Indian messkers had already
40:47
Speaker 1: occurred and were still to occur. In fact, any kind
40:51
Speaker 1: of adventure that involved traveling, even for a short distance,
40:54
Speaker 1: whether it was a small prospecting or emigrants outfit, whether
40:58
Speaker 1: it was a long train on hoofs aiding with goods
41:00
Speaker 1: of the utmost value, had to be escorted by a
41:03
Speaker 1: squad of soldiers, and often by an entire company. Even
41:07
Speaker 1: thus protected, frequent and daring raids were made by the
41:09
Speaker 1: cruel and fearless savages, whose only dreads seemed to be
41:12
Speaker 1: starvation and yoncoming of the white man, and who would
41:15
Speaker 1: go to any lakes to get food. Looking back in
41:19
Speaker 1: the light of present day reasoning, I am bound to
41:21
Speaker 1: say that it would be wrong to blame the apaches
41:23
Speaker 1: for something their savage and untutored natures could not help.
41:26
Speaker 1: Before the pale face came to the territory, the Indian
41:30
Speaker 1: was lord of all he surveyed from the peaks of
41:33
Speaker 1: the mountains town to the distant line of the silvery horizon.
41:36
Speaker 1: He was monarch of the desert, and roam over his
41:38
Speaker 1: dements without interference, saved from hostile drives, and into his
41:41
Speaker 1: very being there was born naturally a spirit of freedom
41:45
Speaker 1: which the white man, with all his weapons, could never kill.
41:48
Speaker 1: He knew the best hunting grounds, He knew where he
41:50
Speaker 1: grew excellent fodder for his horses. He knew where water
41:53
Speaker 1: ran year round and in the rainy season. He knew
41:56
Speaker 1: where the water holes were to be found. In his
41:59
Speaker 1: wild life, there was only the religion of living and
42:02
Speaker 1: the divinity of freedom. When the white man came, he
42:06
Speaker 1: too found the fertile places, the running water, and the
42:08
Speaker 1: honting grounds, and he confiscated them in the name of
42:11
Speaker 1: a higher civilization of which the savage knew nothing and
42:13
Speaker 1: desired to know less. Could the Indian then be blamed
42:17
Speaker 1: for his overwhelming hatred of the white man. His was
42:20
Speaker 1: the inferior, the barbaric race, to be sure, could he
42:23
Speaker 1: be blamed for not believing so? His was a fight
42:26
Speaker 1: against civilization, true, and it was a losing fight, as
42:29
Speaker 1: all such are bound to be. But the Indian did
42:32
Speaker 1: not know what civilization was, except that it meant that
42:34
Speaker 1: he was to be robbed of his honeting grounds and
42:37
Speaker 1: stripped of his heritage of freedom. Therefore he fought tirelessly, savagely,
42:42
Speaker 1: and monically the inroads of the white man into his territory.
42:45
Speaker 1: All that he knew, all that he wished to understand,
42:48
Speaker 1: was that he had been free and happy before the
42:50
Speaker 1: white man had come, with his thunder weapons, his fire water,
42:53
Speaker 1: and his mad, mad passion for yellow gold. The Union
42:57
Speaker 1: couldnot understand or admit that the white was the superior,
42:59
Speaker 1: a conquering race, and not understanding, he became hostile and
43:04
Speaker 1: a battling demon. So intense was the hatred of the
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Speaker 1: white man among the Apaches of the period of which
43:10
Speaker 1: I speak, that it was their custom to cut off
43:13
Speaker 1: the noses of any of their women caught in illegal
43:16
Speaker 1: intercourse with a white man. This done, she was driven
43:19
Speaker 1: from her tribe, declared now cast from her people, and
43:22
Speaker 1: frequently starved to death. I can remember many instances of
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Speaker 1: this exact kind end of chapter two, Chapter three, Arizona's
43:39
Speaker 1: Yesterday by John Katie Basslo. This LibriVox recording is in
43:45
Speaker 1: the public domain recording by Tony Pissante Rough and Tumble
43:51
Speaker 1: on land and sea. It was youth, my friend, and
43:55
Speaker 1: joyfulness besides that made me breast the treachery of neptile
44:00
Speaker 1: tunes fickle tides. When spring came around in the year
44:06
Speaker 1: eighteen sixty seven, we removed to tu Bac, where we
44:10
Speaker 1: were joined by a K company of my regiment and
44:13
Speaker 1: C company of the thirty second Infantry. Toubac, considered by
44:17
Speaker 1: some to be the oldest town in Arizona before the
44:20
Speaker 1: consummation of the Gatson Treaty, was a military post at
44:24
Speaker 1: which the Republic of Mexico regularly kept a small garrison.
44:28
Speaker 1: It was situated on Santa Cruz River, which at this
44:31
Speaker 1: point generally had considerable water in it. This was probably
44:36
Speaker 1: the reason for the establishment of the town, for water
44:39
Speaker 1: has always been the controlling factor on the settlement's progress
44:42
Speaker 1: in Arizona. The river is dry at two Bac now, however,
44:46
Speaker 1: except in unusually rainy seasons. Irrigation and cattle having robbed
44:50
Speaker 1: the stream of its former volume. At the time we
44:53
Speaker 1: recorded there, Tobacco was a place of no small importance,
44:57
Speaker 1: and after Tucson and Prescott or discounted, it was probably
45:00
Speaker 1: the largest settlement in the territory. Patagonia has now taken
45:04
Speaker 1: the position formerly occupied by the old Adobe town as
45:07
Speaker 1: center of the rich mining zone of southern Arizona, and
45:10
Speaker 1: the glories of Tubac, if they can be given that name,
45:14
Speaker 1: are like the glories of Tombstone, gone. Unlike those of Tombstone, however,
45:19
Speaker 1: they are probably gone forever. Tombstone may yet rise from
45:23
Speaker 1: the ashes of her splendid pass to a future as
45:25
Speaker 1: one of the important towns of the Southwest, if the
45:28
Speaker 1: stories of untold riches nearby her are to be believed.
45:32
Speaker 1: A little to the east two back and separating that
45:34
Speaker 1: town for Patagonia's mount rights and one of the highest
45:38
Speaker 1: mountains in Arizona, nickname Old Baldy, after its famous namesake
45:42
Speaker 1: in California as Mammoth pyle of rock and copper, was
45:45
Speaker 1: in the old days of landmark for travelers physical sometimes
45:48
Speaker 1: for days ahead on the wagon trails it presaged near
45:53
Speaker 1: arrival in Tucson for a direct line. Old Baldy is
45:56
Speaker 1: probably not further than forty miles from the old Pueblo.
46:00
Speaker 1: We capped at Tubac during the summer and part of
46:02
Speaker 1: the winter of eighteen sixty seven, and I remember while
46:05
Speaker 1: we were there, I cooked a reception banquet for Cornel
46:08
Speaker 1: Richard C. Mc cormick, who was then and until eighteen
46:10
Speaker 1: sixty nine governor of the Territory of Arizona. I forget
46:15
Speaker 1: his business in Tubac, but it was either an electioneering
46:18
Speaker 1: trip or one of inspection after his appointment to the
46:21
Speaker 1: office of governor in eighteen sixty six. In the early
46:25
Speaker 1: part of eighteen sixty eight, we moved Fort Buchanan, which
46:28
Speaker 1: before the war had been a military post of considerable importance.
46:32
Speaker 1: It received its name from the President before Lincoln, and
46:35
Speaker 1: was garrisoned by Confederates during the Civil War. We rebuilt
46:39
Speaker 1: a fort and renamed it Fort Crittenden, in honor of
46:41
Speaker 1: General Thomas L. Crittenden, a son of the Honorable John J.
46:45
Speaker 1: Crittenden of Kentucky, who was then in command of the
46:47
Speaker 1: military district embracing that portion of the territory south of
46:51
Speaker 1: the heel of River. Crittenden was beautifully situated on the Senoida,
46:55
Speaker 1: about ten miles from where I now live, and in
46:58
Speaker 1: the midst of some of the most miralously bus scenery
47:00
Speaker 1: be found on the American continent. Fort Crittenden is no
47:04
Speaker 1: longer occupied, and has not been for some time, but
47:07
Speaker 1: a short distance toward Benson is for Harchuka, where at
47:10
Speaker 1: present Garrison of the Ninth Cavalry is quartered. During part
47:15
Speaker 1: of eighteen sixty eight I carried mail from where Calabasas
47:18
Speaker 1: is now it was then Fort Mason, Fort Crittenden, a
47:22
Speaker 1: proceeding emphatically not as simple as it may sound. My
47:27
Speaker 1: way lay over a mountainous part of what is now
47:29
Speaker 1: Santa Cruz County, a district which, at that time, on
47:32
Speaker 1: account of the excellent fodder and water, bounded with hostile Indians.
47:37
Speaker 1: On one occasion that I well remember, I had reached
47:39
Speaker 1: the water hole over which is now the first railroad
47:42
Speaker 1: bridge north of Patagonia, about a half mile from the
47:45
Speaker 1: present town, and had stopped there to water my horse.
47:48
Speaker 1: While the animal was drinking, I struck a match to
47:51
Speaker 1: light my pipe, and instantly I ducked A bullet whistled
47:54
Speaker 1: over my head, near enough to give me a strong
47:56
Speaker 1: premonition that a couple inches closer would have at my end.
48:00
Speaker 1: I seized the bridle on my horse, leapt on his back,
48:02
Speaker 1: bent low over his saddle, and rode for it. I escaped.
48:06
Speaker 1: But it is positive in my mind today that if
48:08
Speaker 1: those apaches had been better accustomed to the use of
48:11
Speaker 1: the white man's weapons, I would not now be alive
48:14
Speaker 1: to tell the story. I was a great gambler, even
48:18
Speaker 1: in those days. It was the fashion then to gamble.
48:21
Speaker 1: Everybody except the priests and parsons gambled, and there was
48:24
Speaker 1: a scarcity of priests and parsons in the sixties. Men
48:28
Speaker 1: would gamble their dust, and when that was gone, they
48:30
Speaker 1: would gamble their worldly possessions, and when those had vanished,
48:33
Speaker 1: they would gamble their clothes. And if they lost their clothes,
48:36
Speaker 1: there were instances where some men even went so far
48:38
Speaker 1: as to gamble their wives. And every one of us
48:41
Speaker 1: each day gambled his life. So you see, the whole
48:44
Speaker 1: life in the territory in early days was one continuous gamble.
48:48
Speaker 1: Nobody say if gamblers came out there, because nobody but
48:51
Speaker 1: gamblers would take the chance. As I have stated that
48:55
Speaker 1: I followed the natural trend. I had a name even
48:58
Speaker 1: in those days, of being one of the most spirited
49:00
Speaker 1: gamblers in the regiment, and that meant the countryside, And
49:03
Speaker 1: I confess it today without shame. Although it is some
49:06
Speaker 1: time now since I raised an ante. I remember one
49:10
Speaker 1: occasion when my talents for games of chance turned out
49:13
Speaker 1: rather peculiarly. We had gone to Calabasas to get a
49:17
Speaker 1: load of wheat from a store owned by a man
49:19
Speaker 1: named Richardson, who had been a colonel in the Volunteer Service.
49:23
Speaker 1: Richardson had as manager of the store a fellow named Long,
49:26
Speaker 1: who was well known for his passion for gambling. After
49:29
Speaker 1: we had given our order, we sought about for some
49:32
Speaker 1: diversion to make the time pass, and Long caught the
49:34
Speaker 1: sight of the goatskinning s shepperdos I was wearing. He
49:37
Speaker 1: stared at them enviously for a minute and then proposed
49:40
Speaker 1: to buy them. They're not for sale, said I, but
49:44
Speaker 1: if you like, I'll play for him. Done, said Long,
49:48
Speaker 1: and put up sixteen dollars against the chaps. Now Long
49:52
Speaker 1: was a game sport, but that didn't make him lucky.
49:55
Speaker 1: I won his sixteen dollars, and then he bet me
49:58
Speaker 1: some whiskey against the lot and again one. By the
50:01
Speaker 1: time I had beat him five or six times, had
50:03
Speaker 1: won a good half of the store's contents, and was
50:06
Speaker 1: proposing to play him for his share in the store itself.
50:08
Speaker 1: Cried quits. We loaded our plunder on the wagon near
50:12
Speaker 1: Bloxton or where Bloxton now is, four miles west of Patagonia.
50:17
Speaker 1: We managed to upset the wagon, and half the whiskey
50:20
Speaker 1: and wheat never was retrieved. We had to wear with
50:24
Speaker 1: all the fixed things with the officers, however, and went unreproved,
50:28
Speaker 1: even making a tidy profit selling what stuff we had
50:30
Speaker 1: left as soldiers. At that time, the company maintained gardens
50:35
Speaker 1: on a part of what afterwards was the Sandford Rancho,
50:38
Speaker 1: and at one time, during eighteen sixty eight, I was
50:40
Speaker 1: gardening there with three others. Gardens were on a ranch
50:44
Speaker 1: owned by William Morgan, a discharged sergeant of our company.
50:47
Speaker 1: Morgan had one Mexican working for him, and there were
50:50
Speaker 1: four of us from the fort station there to cultivate
50:52
Speaker 1: the gardens and keep him company. More for the latter
50:55
Speaker 1: reason than the first, I believe, we took turn and
50:58
Speaker 1: turn about of one month at the fort in one
51:00
Speaker 1: month at the gardens, which were about fourteen miles from
51:03
Speaker 1: the fort. One of us was Private White of Company K.
51:07
Speaker 1: He was a mighty fine young fellow, and we all
51:09
Speaker 1: liked him. Early one morning, the five of us were
51:12
Speaker 1: eating breakfast in the cabin, an illustration of which is given,
51:16
Speaker 1: and White went outside for something. Soon afterward we heard
51:19
Speaker 1: several reports, but figuring that White had shot at some
51:22
Speaker 1: animal or other, we did not even get up from
51:25
Speaker 1: our meal. Finally came another shot, and then another, and
51:29
Speaker 1: Morgan got up and peered from the door. He gave
51:32
Speaker 1: a cry apaches, he shouted, they're all around, poor White.
51:38
Speaker 1: It was nip and tuck. Then for hours we kept
51:40
Speaker 1: up a steady fire at the Indians, who circled the
51:42
Speaker 1: house with blood curdling whoops, and killed a number of
51:46
Speaker 1: them before they finally took themselves off. We went forth
51:49
Speaker 1: to look for White. We found our comrade lying on
51:53
Speaker 1: his back a short distance away, his eyes staring unseeingly
51:56
Speaker 1: to the sky. He was dead. He heared him to the
52:00
Speaker 1: house and discuss the situation. They'll come back, said Morgan,
52:05
Speaker 1: with conviction. Then it's up to one of us to
52:07
Speaker 1: ride to the fort, I said, But Morgan shook his head.
52:12
Speaker 1: There isn't a horse anywhere near? He said, we had
52:16
Speaker 1: no old army mule working on the gardens, and I
52:18
Speaker 1: bethought myself of him. There's the mule, I suggested. My
52:24
Speaker 1: companions were silent. That mule was the slowest creature in Arizona.
52:28
Speaker 1: I firmly believed it was as much as he could
52:31
Speaker 1: do to walk, let alone gallop. Somebody's got to go,
52:35
Speaker 1: or we'll all be killed. I said, let's draw lights.
52:39
Speaker 1: They agreed, and we filed five straws, one of them
52:42
Speaker 1: shorter than the rest. These we drew, and the short
52:45
Speaker 1: one fell to me. I look back on that desperate
52:48
Speaker 1: ride now with feelings akin to horror, surrounded with murderous savages,
52:53
Speaker 1: with only a decrepit mule to ride, and fourteen miles ago,
52:56
Speaker 1: it seemed impossible that I could get through safely, and
53:00
Speaker 1: said goodbye to me, as though I were a scaffold
53:02
Speaker 1: victim about to be executed. We'll get through. I did,
53:06
Speaker 1: how I do not know. And the chillingly weird war
53:09
Speaker 1: calls of the Indians howling at me from the hills
53:11
Speaker 1: as I rode returned to my ears even now with
53:14
Speaker 1: extraordinary vividness, and as Morgan had prophesied. The apaches did
53:20
Speaker 1: come back. It was a month later and I have
53:22
Speaker 1: been transferred back to the fort when a nephew of
53:25
Speaker 1: Colonel Dunkelberger and William J. Osborne of Tucson, a riding
53:28
Speaker 1: near Morgan's Ranch, Patchies ambushed them, slew to Colonel's nephew,
53:32
Speaker 1: whose name has slipped my memory, and wounded Osbourne. The latter,
53:37
Speaker 1: who was a person with considerable importance in the territory,
53:40
Speaker 1: escaped to Morgan's Ranch. An expedition of retaliation was immediately
53:44
Speaker 1: organized at the fort, and the soldiers pursued the assassins
53:47
Speaker 1: into Mexico, finally coming up with them and killing a number.
53:51
Speaker 1: I did not accompany the troops on this occasion, having
53:54
Speaker 1: been detailed of the Santa Rita Range to bring in
53:56
Speaker 1: lumber to be used in building houses. Returned from the
54:00
Speaker 1: Santa Ritas in July and found an order had been
54:02
Speaker 1: received from the from the War Department that all men
54:05
Speaker 1: whose times had expired or surely could expire should be
54:08
Speaker 1: congregated in Tucson. From there march to California for their discharge.
54:13
Speaker 1: A few weeks later I went to the Old Pueblo
54:15
Speaker 1: and together with several hundred others from all parts of
54:18
Speaker 1: the territory was mustered out started on the return march
54:22
Speaker 1: to Wilmington, where we arrived about October first. On the
54:25
Speaker 1: twelfth of October, I was discharged after working as a
54:30
Speaker 1: cook for a short time for a company that was
54:32
Speaker 1: constructing a railroad from Wilmington to Los Angeles. I moved
54:35
Speaker 1: to the latter place and obtained employment in the old
54:38
Speaker 1: Belly Union hotel as chef. John King was the proprietor
54:42
Speaker 1: of the Belly Union till Christmas Eve. I stayed there,
54:44
Speaker 1: and then Sergeant John Curtis, of my company, we'd been
54:47
Speaker 1: working as a saddler for banning a capitalist in Wilmington,
54:51
Speaker 1: came back to the kitchen and said, John old Sport,
54:55
Speaker 1: let's go to Frisco. I haven't I told him I've
55:00
Speaker 1: changed to set them up across street. Let alone go
55:02
Speaker 1: to Frisco. For answer, Curtis pulled out a wallet who
55:06
Speaker 1: therefrom A, rolled bills that amounted to about thousand dollars,
55:10
Speaker 1: divided the pile into two halves, laid them on the table,
55:13
Speaker 1: and indicated them with his forefinger. John. He offered, if
55:18
Speaker 1: you'll come with me, you can put one of those
55:20
Speaker 1: piles in your pocket? What do you say? Inasmuch as
55:23
Speaker 1: I had previously little opportunity to really explored San Francisco,
55:26
Speaker 1: the idea appealed to me, and we shook hands on
55:29
Speaker 1: the bargain. Christmas morning, fine, cloudless and warm, found as
55:33
Speaker 1: seated onto San Jose stage. San Jose then was nearly
55:37
Speaker 1: as large a place as Tuside is now about twenty
55:40
Speaker 1: five thousand, if I remember rightly. Stage Rout carried us
55:44
Speaker 1: through the Mission country, now so widely exploited by the railroads.
55:48
Speaker 1: Santa Barbara, San Luis, Bispo, Monterey were all towns on
55:52
Speaker 1: the way, Monterey being probably the largest. The country was
55:57
Speaker 1: very thinly occupied, chiefly by a Spanish housing that had
56:00
Speaker 1: been in the country long before gold was discovered. A
56:04
Speaker 1: few powerful owners of these states controlled practically the entire
56:07
Speaker 1: beautiful state of California prior to forty nine, and at
56:10
Speaker 1: the time I write of still retained a goodly portion
56:13
Speaker 1: of it. They grew rich and powerful, for their lands
56:16
Speaker 1: were either taken by right of conquest or by grants
56:19
Speaker 1: from the original Mexican government, and they paid no wages
56:22
Speaker 1: to their peons. These Spaniards, with the priests, however, are
56:26
Speaker 1: to be credited with whatever progress civilization made in the
56:29
Speaker 1: early days of California. They built the first passable roads,
56:33
Speaker 1: They completed rough surveys, and they first discovered the wonderful
56:36
Speaker 1: fertility of the California soils. Towns, they were built solidly
56:42
Speaker 1: with an eye to the future ravages of earthquakes and
56:44
Speaker 1: of time, which is something the modern builder often does
56:47
Speaker 1: not do. There are many of the pueblo's old houses,
56:50
Speaker 1: built by the Spaniards in the middle part of the
56:52
Speaker 1: eighteenth century, which are still used and occupied. We arrived
56:57
Speaker 1: in San Francisco a few days after our departure from
57:00
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and before long the city had done to us,
57:03
Speaker 1: which she still does to so many, had broken us
57:06
Speaker 1: on her fickle wheel of fortune. It wasn't many days
57:09
Speaker 1: before we found ourselves, our good time, a thing of
57:13
Speaker 1: the past, up against it. John said, Curtis, finally we're broke.
57:20
Speaker 1: We can't get no work. What do we do? I
57:23
Speaker 1: thought a minute, and then suggested the only alternative I
57:26
Speaker 1: could think of. Let's get a blanket, I offered. Gaining
57:30
Speaker 1: a blanket was the phrase commonly in use when men
57:33
Speaker 1: meant to say they intended to enlist. Curtis met the
57:36
Speaker 1: idea with instant approval, if not with acclamation and suiting
57:40
Speaker 1: the action to the words. We obtained a hack and
57:42
Speaker 1: drove to the presidio. When I went the examination for
57:45
Speaker 1: our tillerryman, Curtis passed easily and was accepted, but I,
57:50
Speaker 1: owing to a wound in my ankle received during the war,
57:53
Speaker 1: was refused. Curtis obtained the customary three days leave before
57:58
Speaker 1: joining his company, and for their brief space we roamed
58:00
Speaker 1: about the city, finishing our good time with such money
58:04
Speaker 1: as Curtis had been able to raise by pawning and
58:06
Speaker 1: selling his belongings. After three days were over, we parted
58:10
Speaker 1: Curtis to join his regiment, and since then I have
58:13
Speaker 1: neither seen nor heard of him. If he still chances
58:15
Speaker 1: to be living, my best wishes go out to him
58:18
Speaker 1: in his old age. For some time I hung around
58:22
Speaker 1: San Francisco trying to obtain employment, without any luck. I
58:26
Speaker 1: was not then as skillful a gambler as I became,
58:28
Speaker 1: and after years and in any case, I had no
58:30
Speaker 1: money with which to gamble. It was I found one
58:34
Speaker 1: thing to sit down to a mony deck, at a
58:36
Speaker 1: table surrounded with people. You knew where your credit was good,
58:40
Speaker 1: and another to stake your money on to pain the
58:41
Speaker 1: wheel in a great hall where nobody cared whether he
58:44
Speaker 1: won or lost. Trying to make my little stake last
58:47
Speaker 1: as long as possible, I roomed in a cheap hotel,
58:50
Speaker 1: the old Watcheer Rooming House, and ate but one two
58:53
Speaker 1: bit meal a day. I was constantly on the lookout
58:56
Speaker 1: for work of some kind, but had no luck until
58:58
Speaker 1: one day, as I was passing up Kearney Street, I
59:01
Speaker 1: saw a sign in one of the store windows calling
59:03
Speaker 1: for volunteers for the Sloop of War Jamestown. After reading
59:07
Speaker 1: notice a couple of times, I decided to enlist, did so,
59:10
Speaker 1: sent to Mary Island Navy Yard, and from their board
59:13
Speaker 1: to the Jamestown. It was on that vessel that I
59:16
Speaker 1: performed an action that I have not since regretted, however
59:19
Speaker 1: reprehensible it may seem in the light of present day ethics.
59:23
Speaker 1: Smallpox broke out on board, and I, fearful contracting dread disease,
59:28
Speaker 1: planned the dessert. This would probably not have been possible today,
59:31
Speaker 1: when the quarantine regulations are so strict, but in those days,
59:35
Speaker 1: port authorities were seldom on the alert to prevent vessels
59:37
Speaker 1: with diseases anchoring the other shipping, especially in Mexico. In
59:41
Speaker 1: the waters of Witch Country. We were cruising when we
59:45
Speaker 1: reached Masa Blind I went shore, in the ordinary course
59:47
Speaker 1: of my duties as war room steward, to do some
59:49
Speaker 1: marketing and take the officer's laundry to be washed. Instead
59:53
Speaker 1: of bringing the marketing back the ship, I sent it
59:55
Speaker 1: together with a note telling where the laundry would be found,
59:58
Speaker 1: and saying goodbye forever to my sh mats. A note
1:00:01
Speaker 1: written and dispatched that quietly vamboos story, as I believe
1:00:04
Speaker 1: it is popularly termed in the navy. Now I went
1:00:07
Speaker 1: over to hill. My primary excuse for this action was,
1:00:11
Speaker 1: of course, the outbreak of smallpox, which at that time
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Speaker 1: and in fact until very recently, was as greatly dreaded
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Speaker 1: as the bubonic plague is now, and probably more. Vaccination,
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Speaker 1: whatever may be its value in the prevention of disease,
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Speaker 1: had not been discovered in the sense that is now understood.
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Speaker 1: Was not known at all except in the centers of
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Speaker 1: medical practice in the East. Smallpox then was a mysterious disease,
1:00:34
Speaker 1: and certainly a plague. Whole populations had been wiped out
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Speaker 1: by it. Doctors had announced there was practically no cure
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Speaker 1: for it, and that's contraction and almost certain death. And
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Speaker 1: I may thus be excused for my fear of the sickness.
1:00:47
Speaker 1: I ventured to state moreover, that if all the men
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Speaker 1: aboard to Jamestown had had the same opportunity that I
1:00:53
Speaker 1: was given the dessert, they would have done so in
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Speaker 1: the body. My second excuse, reader one is necessary, is
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Speaker 1: that in the days of the Jamestown and her sister ships,
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Speaker 1: navy life was very different from the navy life of today.
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Speaker 1: When I understand generous paymasters, or even giving the jackies
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Speaker 1: ice cream with their meals, you may be entirely sure
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Speaker 1: if we got nothing of the kind. Our food was bad,
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Speaker 1: our quarters were worse, and the discipline was unbearably severe.
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Speaker 1: End of chapter three, Chapter four, Arizona's Yesterday. But John
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Speaker 1: Caty Basiwomb this LibriVox recording is in the public domain,
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Speaker 1: according by Tony Possante, through Mexico and back to Arizona.
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Speaker 1: Know thou the spell of the desert land, where life
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Speaker 1: and love are free. Know thou thellure of the sky
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Speaker 1: and sand hath for the man and me. When I
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Speaker 1: deserted from the Sloop of War Jamestown. It was with
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Speaker 1: no uncertain knowledge that it was distinctly to my best
1:02:00
Speaker 1: advantage to clear out of the city of Mazuvelan just
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Speaker 1: as rapidly as I could, where the ships of the
1:02:05
Speaker 1: free and presumably enlightened Republic had not yet swerved altogether
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Speaker 1: from the customs of the King's navy, one of which
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Speaker 1: said customs was to hang deserters at the yard arm.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes they shot them, but I do not remember that
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Speaker 1: the gentleman most concerned had any choice in the matter
1:02:21
Speaker 1: at ey rate. I know that it was with a
1:02:24
Speaker 1: distinct feeling of relief that I covered the last few
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Speaker 1: yards that brought me out of the city of Maslan
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Speaker 1: and into the open country. In theory, of course, the
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Speaker 1: captain of the Sloop of War Jamestown could not have
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Speaker 1: sent a squad of man after me with instructions to
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Speaker 1: bring me back off foreign soil, dead or alive. But
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Speaker 1: in practice that is just what he would have done.
1:02:43
Speaker 1: Theory and practice have a habit of differing, especially in
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Speaker 1: the actions of an irate skipper who sees one of
1:02:48
Speaker 1: his best ward room stewards vanishing from his jurisdiction. Life
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Speaker 1: now opened before me with such a fist of possibilities
1:02:55
Speaker 1: that I felt my breath taken away. Who was I
1:02:58
Speaker 1: the youth twenty two years old, husky and sound, physically
1:03:01
Speaker 1: free in a foreign country which I felt an instant
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Speaker 1: liking for, and no longer beholden to the stars and
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Speaker 1: stripes for which I was quite ready to fight, but
1:03:09
Speaker 1: not to serve endurance vile on a plague ship. My
1:03:13
Speaker 1: spirit bounded at the thought of the liberty that was mine,
1:03:15
Speaker 1: and I struck northward out of Masablin with a light
1:03:17
Speaker 1: step and a lighter heart. At the edge of the city,
1:03:20
Speaker 1: I paused awhile on a bluff to gaze for the
1:03:22
Speaker 1: last time on the bay, on the waters of which
1:03:25
Speaker 1: rode quietly at anchor the vessel I had a few
1:03:27
Speaker 1: hours before quit so unceremoniously, there was no regret in
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Speaker 1: my heart as I stood there and looked. I had
1:03:33
Speaker 1: no particular love for Mexico, but then I had no
1:03:36
Speaker 1: particular love for the sea either, and a good deal
1:03:39
Speaker 1: less for the ships that sailed the sea. So I
1:03:42
Speaker 1: turned my back very definitely on that part of my life,
1:03:44
Speaker 1: and set my face toward the north, where had I
1:03:48
Speaker 1: known it, I was to find my destiny beneath the
1:03:51
Speaker 1: cloudless turquoise skies of Arizona. When I left Mazablin, it
1:03:57
Speaker 1: was with the intention of walking as far as I
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Speaker 1: could before stopping, or until the weight the small bundle
1:04:01
Speaker 1: containing my wordly possessions tired my shoulders. But it was
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Speaker 1: not to be so. Only two miles out of the city,
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Speaker 1: I came upon a ranch owned by two Americans, the
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Speaker 1: site of whom was very welcome to me. Just then
1:04:14
Speaker 1: I had no idea that I should find any American
1:04:16
Speaker 1: ranchers in the near neighborhood, and considered myself in luck.
1:04:20
Speaker 1: I found that one of the Americans names was Colonel Elliot,
1:04:23
Speaker 1: and I asked him for work. Eliot sized me up,
1:04:26
Speaker 1: invited me in to rest up, and on talking with him,
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Speaker 1: I found him to be an exceedingly congenial soul. He
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Speaker 1: was an old Confederate Colonel was Eliot. But although we
1:04:36
Speaker 1: had served on opposite sides of the sad War of
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Speaker 1: a few years back, a common bond of nationality that
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Speaker 1: has always drung est beyond the confines of one's own
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Speaker 1: land prevented us from feeling any aloofness towards each other.
1:04:47
Speaker 1: On this account, to me, Colonel Elliott was an American,
1:04:50
Speaker 1: and a mighty decent specimen of an American at that
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Speaker 1: a friend in need. And to Colonel Elliot also, I
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Speaker 1: was an American and one needing assistance. Seldom spoke of
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Speaker 1: our political differences, partly because our lives speedily became too
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Speaker 1: full and intimate to admit with the pity exchange of
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Speaker 1: divergent views, and partly because I had been a boy
1:05:10
Speaker 1: during the Civil War, and my youthful brain had not
1:05:13
Speaker 1: been sufficiently mature to assimilate the man of old prejudices, likes, dislikes,
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Speaker 1: and opposing theories that were the heritage of nearly all
1:05:20
Speaker 1: those who lived during that bloody four years war. I
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Speaker 1: have said that Colonel Elliott was a friend in need.
1:05:28
Speaker 1: There is an apt saying that a friend in need
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Speaker 1: is a friend indeed, and such was Colonel Elliot, as
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Speaker 1: I soon found, for I had not been a week
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Speaker 1: at the ranch when I was struck down with smallpox,
1:05:38
Speaker 1: and throughout that dangerous sickness, lasting several weeks, the old colonel,
1:05:43
Speaker 1: careless of contagion, nursed me like a woman, finally bringing
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Speaker 1: me back to a point where I once again had
1:05:48
Speaker 1: full possession of all my youthful health and vigor. I
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Speaker 1: do not just now recall the length of time I
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Speaker 1: worked for Elliott and his partner, but to stay if
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Speaker 1: now long, was most decidedly pleasant to speak Spanish fluently
1:06:01
Speaker 1: haunted the town of Mazyalon, from which the jamestown had
1:06:05
Speaker 1: long since departed, and made as good use generally of
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Speaker 1: my temporary employment as was possible. I tried hard to
1:06:12
Speaker 1: master the patois of the peon, as well as the
1:06:15
Speaker 1: flowery and eloquent language of the aristocracy. For I knew
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Speaker 1: well that should I at any time seek employment as
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Speaker 1: overseer at Rancho, either in Mexico or Arizona, a knowledge
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Speaker 1: of the former would be indispensable, while the knowledge of
1:06:29
Speaker 1: the latter was at all times useful. In Mexico, especially
1:06:33
Speaker 1: in the cities where the position of the cultured dialect
1:06:36
Speaker 1: marked one for special favors and secured better attention at stores.
1:06:41
Speaker 1: Mexicans I grew to understand and liked more and more
1:06:44
Speaker 1: the longer I knew them. I found the average Mexican
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Speaker 1: gentleman a model of politeness about brummel and dress, and
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Speaker 1: an artist in the use of flowery terms with which
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Speaker 1: a splendid language bounds. The peons also I came to
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Speaker 1: know and understand. I found them a simple minded, uncomplaining class,
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Speaker 1: willingly accepting the burdens which were laid on them by
1:07:03
Speaker 1: their masters, the rich landlords, and living, loving and playing
1:07:06
Speaker 1: very much as children. They were good hearted, these Mexicans,
1:07:10
Speaker 1: and hospitable to the last degree. This, indeed, is a
1:07:13
Speaker 1: characteristic as truly of the Mexican of to day, as
1:07:16
Speaker 1: of the period of which I speak. They would, if
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Speaker 1: needs be shared the last crust with you, even if
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Speaker 1: you were an utter stranger. And many the time some
1:07:24
Speaker 1: lowly pian host of mine would insist on my occupying
1:07:27
Speaker 1: his rude bed while he and his family slept on
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Speaker 1: the roof. Such warm hearted simplicity is very agreeable, and
1:07:32
Speaker 1: it was a vast change from the world of the Americans,
1:07:35
Speaker 1: especially of the West, where the watchword was every man
1:07:38
Speaker 1: for himself, and the devil take the hindmost. They may
1:07:41
Speaker 1: be remarked here that the devil often took the foremost too.
1:07:46
Speaker 1: When I left the hospitable shelter of Colonel Ely's home,
1:07:49
Speaker 1: I moved to Serios and Louis where it was situated,
1:07:52
Speaker 1: the famous Tyhoe mine which has made the fortunes of
1:07:54
Speaker 1: the Bradbury family. It was owned then by Don Luis Bradbury,
1:07:59
Speaker 1: senior Saint Bradbury, whose son is now such a prominent
1:08:02
Speaker 1: figure in the social and commercial life of San Francisco
1:08:05
Speaker 1: and Los Angeles. I asked for work at the Bradbury mine,
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Speaker 1: obtained it, and started in shoveling refuse like any other
1:08:12
Speaker 1: common labor, at a munificent wage of ten dollars per week,
1:08:16
Speaker 1: which was a little less than ten dollars more than
1:08:18
Speaker 1: the Mexican peons and laboring at the same work obtained.
1:08:21
Speaker 1: I had not been working there long, however, when some
1:08:23
Speaker 1: suggestions I made to the engineer obtained me recognition and promotion,
1:08:27
Speaker 1: and at the end of the year when I quit,
1:08:29
Speaker 1: I was earned one hundred and fifty dollars per month,
1:08:31
Speaker 1: nearly four times what my wage had been when I started.
1:08:34
Speaker 1: And then then I believe it was the spell of
1:08:37
Speaker 1: the Arizona planes that gripped the strings of my soul
1:08:40
Speaker 1: again and caused them to play a different tune. Was
1:08:42
Speaker 1: it the prospect of an exciting and more or less
1:08:45
Speaker 1: lawless life on the frontier that beckoned with enticing lure.
1:08:49
Speaker 1: I do not know, but I grew to think more
1:08:51
Speaker 1: and more of Arizona, the territory in which I had
1:08:53
Speaker 1: reached my majority and had found my manhood. And more
1:08:56
Speaker 1: and more I discovered myself longing to be back shaking
1:08:59
Speaker 1: hands with my old friends and companions, in shaking two
1:09:02
Speaker 1: dice with life itself. So one day saw me once
1:09:06
Speaker 1: more on my way to the wild and free territory,
1:09:09
Speaker 1: although this time my road did not lie wholly across
1:09:11
Speaker 1: a burning and uninhabited desert. It is a hard enough
1:09:16
Speaker 1: proposition now to get to the United States from Mazilon
1:09:19
Speaker 1: or any other point in Mexico, when the Suit Pacifico
1:09:22
Speaker 1: and other railroads are shattered in a dozen places, and
1:09:25
Speaker 1: their schedules those that have them, are dependent on the
1:09:29
Speaker 1: magnanimity of the various tribes of bandits that infest the roots.
1:09:32
Speaker 1: But at the time I write of it was harder
1:09:36
Speaker 1: to strike north. Overland was possible, though not to be advised,
1:09:40
Speaker 1: for brigands infested the cedar forests of Sinaloa and southern Sonora,
1:09:44
Speaker 1: and savage jockeys quite as much to be feared as
1:09:47
Speaker 1: the apaches. The further north ravaged the desert and mountain country.
1:09:51
Speaker 1: I solved the difficulty finally by going to Masilan and
1:09:54
Speaker 1: shipping from that port as a deckcan on the Dutch Brigantine,
1:09:57
Speaker 1: which I remember because of its exceptionally vile quarters and
1:10:01
Speaker 1: a particularly dirty weather. We ran up against them are
1:10:03
Speaker 1: passage up the gulf. The Gulf of California, especially the
1:10:07
Speaker 1: mouth of it, has always had an evil reputation among
1:10:10
Speaker 1: mariners and with justness, but I firmly believed the elements
1:10:14
Speaker 1: outdid themselves and ferocity. On the trip I referred to
1:10:18
Speaker 1: Guamus reached, my troubles were not over, for there was
1:10:21
Speaker 1: still the long Sonora Desert to be crossed before the
1:10:23
Speaker 1: haven Hermacio could be reached. At last I made arrangements
1:10:27
Speaker 1: with a freighting off it went along with them. I
1:10:29
Speaker 1: had had a little money when I started, but both
1:10:32
Speaker 1: Mazoblan and Guaymas happened to be chiefly filled with cantinas
1:10:35
Speaker 1: and gambling hills, and as I was not averse to
1:10:38
Speaker 1: frequenting either of these places a first resort to the
1:10:41
Speaker 1: lonely wanderer, my money bag was considerably depleted when at
1:10:45
Speaker 1: last I arrived in the beautiful capital of Sonora. I was,
1:10:49
Speaker 1: in fact, if a few odd dollars are accepted, broke,
1:10:53
Speaker 1: and work was a prime necessity. Fortunately, jobs at that
1:10:57
Speaker 1: time were not very hard to find. There was at
1:11:01
Speaker 1: that time in Urmacillo a house named the Casa marian Para,
1:11:06
Speaker 1: kept by one who styled himself William Taft. The Casa
1:11:10
Speaker 1: marian Para would probably be remembered in Urmaciell by old timers. Now,
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Speaker 1: in fact, I have my doubts that it is not
1:11:16
Speaker 1: still standing. It was the chief stopping house and Sonora
1:11:20
Speaker 1: at that time. I obtained employment from Taft as a cook,
1:11:24
Speaker 1: but stayed with it only long enough to procure myself
1:11:27
Speaker 1: a grub stake, after which I hit the grit for Tucson,
1:11:32
Speaker 1: crossing the border on the Galish Trail a few days later.
1:11:35
Speaker 1: I arrived in Tucson in the latter part of the
1:11:37
Speaker 1: year eighteen seventy and obtained work cooking for Charlie Brown
1:11:41
Speaker 1: and his family. It was while I was employed as
1:11:46
Speaker 1: chef and the Brown household that I made and lost,
1:11:49
Speaker 1: of course, a fortune. No it wasn't a very big fortune,
1:11:53
Speaker 1: but it was a fortune, certainly, very curiously and originally made.
1:11:57
Speaker 1: I made it by selling ham sandwiches. Charlie Brown owned
1:12:02
Speaker 1: a saloon not far from the old Church plaza. It
1:12:04
Speaker 1: was called Congress Hall. I had been completed in eighteen sixty
1:12:07
Speaker 1: eight and was one of the most popular places in town.
1:12:10
Speaker 1: Charlie was fast becoming a plutocrat. One night in the saloon,
1:12:13
Speaker 1: I happened to hear a man come in and complain
1:12:15
Speaker 1: because there wasn't a restaurant in town that would serve
1:12:18
Speaker 1: my light snack at that time of night, except at
1:12:20
Speaker 1: outrageous prices. That's right, said another man near me. If
1:12:24
Speaker 1: someone would only have the sense to start a lunch
1:12:26
Speaker 1: counter here the way they have them in the East,
1:12:28
Speaker 1: he'd make all kinds of money. Words suggested a scheme
1:12:32
Speaker 1: to me. The next day, I saw Brown and got's
1:12:34
Speaker 1: permission to serve a light lunch of sandwiches and coffee
1:12:36
Speaker 1: in the saloon after I had finished my work at
1:12:38
Speaker 1: the house. Just at that time, there was a big
1:12:41
Speaker 1: crowd in the town, the first cattle having arrived in
1:12:44
Speaker 1: charge of a hungry a lot of Texan cow punchers.
1:12:46
Speaker 1: Then everyone was making money. I set up my little
1:12:49
Speaker 1: lunch counter charged seventy five cents or six bits in
1:12:53
Speaker 1: the language of the West for a lunch consisting of
1:12:56
Speaker 1: a cup of coffee and a sandwich, and speedily had
1:12:58
Speaker 1: all the customers I could handle. For forty consecutive nights,
1:13:01
Speaker 1: I made a clear profit of over fifty dollars each night.
1:13:05
Speaker 1: Those sandwiches were a mint, and they were worth what
1:13:08
Speaker 1: I charged for them. Too. For bacon, ham, coffee and
1:13:10
Speaker 1: other things were way up, the three mentioned being fifty
1:13:14
Speaker 1: or sixty cents a pound for a very indifferent quality.
1:13:19
Speaker 1: Sometimes I had a long line waiting to buy lunches,
1:13:21
Speaker 1: and all the time I ran at lunch stand, I
1:13:24
Speaker 1: never had one kick at the prices or the grub offered.
1:13:26
Speaker 1: Those cowboys well supplied with money, and they were more
1:13:29
Speaker 1: than willing to spend it. Charlie Brown was making his
1:13:32
Speaker 1: fortune vast. After I quit Brown's employ John mc gee,
1:13:36
Speaker 1: the same man who was now secretary of the Arizona
1:13:39
Speaker 1: Pioneer's Historical Society and a well known resident of Tucson,
1:13:43
Speaker 1: hired myself and another man to do assessment work on
1:13:45
Speaker 1: the old Celero mine, which had been operated before the war.
1:13:49
Speaker 1: Our conveyance was an old ambiance, old by Lord and Williams, who,
1:13:53
Speaker 1: as I have said, kept the only store and the
1:13:56
Speaker 1: post office in Tucson. The offit was driven by old
1:13:59
Speaker 1: Bill Snow, who will doubtless be remembered by marry Arizona pioneers.
1:14:04
Speaker 1: We picked up on the way. Old man Benedict, another
1:14:08
Speaker 1: familiar character, kept the stage station in ranchet so Warita,
1:14:12
Speaker 1: where the Twin Buttes Railroad now has a station, and
1:14:14
Speaker 1: branched some mines and where a smelter is located. We
1:14:17
Speaker 1: were paid ten dollars per day for our work and
1:14:19
Speaker 1: returned safely to Tucson. I spoke of Lord and William
1:14:24
Speaker 1: Storages now when in the city of Tucson recently, I
1:14:27
Speaker 1: saw that mister Corbett has his tin shop where the
1:14:30
Speaker 1: old Storm post office was once. I recognized only two
1:14:34
Speaker 1: other buildings as having existed in pioneered days, although there
1:14:38
Speaker 1: may be more. One was the old church of Saint Augustine,
1:14:42
Speaker 1: and the other was part of the Orndorff Hotel, where
1:14:44
Speaker 1: Levin had a saloon. There were more saloons than anything
1:14:47
Speaker 1: else than Tucson in the old days, and the pueblo
1:14:50
Speaker 1: richly earned its reputation, spread broadcast all over the world
1:14:54
Speaker 1: as being one of the toughest places on the American Frontier.
1:14:58
Speaker 1: Tucson was on the boom. Besides the first ship of
1:15:01
Speaker 1: the cattle, and he influxed cowboys from Texas. Previously mentioned
1:15:06
Speaker 1: territorial capital had just been moved to Tucson from Prescott.
1:15:09
Speaker 1: It was afterwards moved back again to Prescott and subsequently
1:15:13
Speaker 1: to the new town of Phoenix, but more of that later.
1:15:17
Speaker 1: After successfully concluding the assessment work and returning to Tucson
1:15:21
Speaker 1: to be paid off by McGee I, decided to move again,
1:15:24
Speaker 1: and this time chose Wickenberg, a little place between Phoenix
1:15:28
Speaker 1: and Prescott and one of the pioneer towns of the territory.
1:15:31
Speaker 1: West of Wickenberg, on the Colorado River was another settlement
1:15:34
Speaker 1: named Ehrenberg after a man who deserves the paragraph to himself.
1:15:39
Speaker 1: Herman Ehrenberg was a civil engineer and scientist of exceptional
1:15:44
Speaker 1: talents who engaged in mining in the early days of
1:15:47
Speaker 1: Arizona following the occupation of the territory by the Americans.
1:15:50
Speaker 1: He was of German birth, and coming at an early
1:15:53
Speaker 1: age to the United States, made his way to New Orleans,
1:15:56
Speaker 1: where he enlisted in the New Orleans Grays. And war
1:15:59
Speaker 1: broke out between Mexico and Texas. After serving in the
1:16:02
Speaker 1: battles of Goliad and Fannings defeat, he returned to Germany
1:16:05
Speaker 1: and wrote in lecture for some time on Texas and
1:16:08
Speaker 1: the Three Resources. Soon after the publication of his book
1:16:11
Speaker 1: on Texas, he returned to the United States, and at
1:16:13
Speaker 1: Saint Louis in eighteen forty he joined the party crossing
1:16:16
Speaker 1: the Oregon. From that territory, he went to the Sandwich
1:16:19
Speaker 1: Islands and for some years wandered among the islands of
1:16:22
Speaker 1: the Polynesian Archipelago, returning to California in time to join
1:16:25
Speaker 1: General Fremont in the latter's attempt to free California from
1:16:28
Speaker 1: Mexican rule. After the gads And Purchase, he moved to Arizona, where,
1:16:32
Speaker 1: after years of occupation and mining in other industries, he
1:16:35
Speaker 1: was killed by a digger Indian at Dos Pomis in
1:16:38
Speaker 1: southern California. The town of Arenberg was named after him.
1:16:44
Speaker 1: End of chapter four, Chapter five, Arizona's Yesterday by John
1:16:55
Speaker 1: Katy and Base a Wound. This LibriVox recording is in
1:16:59
Speaker 1: the Public Dome recording by Tony Poissante Stage Driver's Luck,
1:17:08
Speaker 1: God men call Destiny, hear thee my prayer God dead,
1:17:13
Speaker 1: Life's secret. It forever shall be kept wiser than mine,
1:17:17
Speaker 1: as thy will I dare not dust where thy broom
1:17:21
Speaker 1: hats swept will I have said that Wickenberg was a
1:17:27
Speaker 1: small place halfway between Phoenix and Prescott, that is not
1:17:30
Speaker 1: quite right. Wickenburg was situated between Prescott and the valley
1:17:34
Speaker 1: of the Salt River, in the fertile midst of which
1:17:37
Speaker 1: the foundation stones of the future capital of Arizona had
1:17:40
Speaker 1: yet to be laid. To be sure, there were a
1:17:43
Speaker 1: few shacks on the site and a few ranchers in
1:17:45
Speaker 1: the valley, but the city of Phoenix had yet to
1:17:47
Speaker 1: blossom forth from the wilderness. I shall find occasion later
1:17:51
Speaker 1: to speak of the birth of Phoenix. However, when I
1:17:55
Speaker 1: arrived in Wickenburg from Tucson, and the journey was no
1:17:58
Speaker 1: mean affair, involving, as it did, ride over desert mountains,
1:18:01
Speaker 1: both of which were crowded with hostile patches. I went
1:18:04
Speaker 1: to work a stage driver for the company that operated
1:18:06
Speaker 1: stages out of Wickenberg to Arenberg, Prescott, and other places,
1:18:10
Speaker 1: including Florence, which was just then beginning to be a town.
1:18:15
Speaker 1: Stage driving in Arizona in the pioneer days was a dangerous, difficult,
1:18:18
Speaker 1: and consequently high priced job. The Indians were responsible for
1:18:22
Speaker 1: this in the main, although white highway men became somewhat
1:18:25
Speaker 1: numerous later on. Sometimes there would be a raid, the
1:18:29
Speaker 1: driver would be killed in the stage would not depart
1:18:31
Speaker 1: again for some days, the company being unable to find
1:18:34
Speaker 1: a man to take the reins. Stages were large and unwieldy,
1:18:38
Speaker 1: but strongly built. They had to be big enough to
1:18:41
Speaker 1: hold off raiders should they attack. Every stage usually carried
1:18:46
Speaker 1: sides the driver two company men who went heavily armed
1:18:49
Speaker 1: and belted round with numerous cartridges, one step beside the
1:18:53
Speaker 1: driver on the box seat. In the case of the
1:18:56
Speaker 1: longer stage trips, two or three men guarded the mail.
1:19:00
Speaker 1: Very few women traveled in those days. In fact, there
1:19:03
Speaker 1: were not many white women in territory, and those who
1:19:06
Speaker 1: did travel usually carried some masculine protector with them. Men
1:19:10
Speaker 1: had to be a good driver to drive stage too,
1:19:12
Speaker 1: for the heavy brakes were not easily manipulated, and there
1:19:15
Speaker 1: were some very bad stretches of road. Apropos. Of what
1:19:19
Speaker 1: I have just said about stage drivers being slain and
1:19:21
Speaker 1: the difficulties sometimes experienced in getting men to take their places,
1:19:26
Speaker 1: I remember that on certain occasions I would take the
1:19:28
Speaker 1: place of the mail driver from Tucson to Apache pass
1:19:31
Speaker 1: not the where Douglas now is. The said mail driver
1:19:34
Speaker 1: hadn't been killed, get fifty dollars for the trip, and
1:19:37
Speaker 1: blow it all in before I started, for fear I
1:19:40
Speaker 1: might not otherwise get a chance to spend it. The
1:19:44
Speaker 1: stage I drove for this Wickenberg company was one that
1:19:46
Speaker 1: ran regular trips out of Wickenburg. Several trips passed without
1:19:50
Speaker 1: much curring worthy of note, and then on one trip
1:19:53
Speaker 1: I fell off the box, injuring my ankle. When I
1:19:56
Speaker 1: arrived back in Wickenburg, I was told by Manager Pierson
1:19:59
Speaker 1: of the company that I would be relieved from driving
1:20:01
Speaker 1: the stage because my foot was not strong enough to
1:20:04
Speaker 1: work the heavy brakes. It would be given instead the
1:20:06
Speaker 1: buck board of driving Florence and back on post office business.
1:20:12
Speaker 1: The next trip stage made out of Wickenberg. Therefore I
1:20:15
Speaker 1: remained behind a few miles from town, the stage was
1:20:18
Speaker 1: held up by an overwhelming force of apaches. The driver
1:20:22
Speaker 1: and all saved, two of the passengers massacred and the
1:20:25
Speaker 1: contents looted. Woman named Miles Sheppard going back east with
1:20:29
Speaker 1: a large sum of money in her possession, and a
1:20:31
Speaker 1: man named Krueger escaped. The Indians hid in the hills,
1:20:34
Speaker 1: and we're the only two who survived to tell the
1:20:36
Speaker 1: story of what has gone down into history as the
1:20:38
Speaker 1: famous Wickenberg stage massacre. I shuddered now to think how
1:20:43
Speaker 1: nearly I might have been on the box on that
1:20:45
Speaker 1: fatal trip. I was not entirely to escape the apaches. However,
1:20:50
Speaker 1: on the first return trip from Florence to Wickenberg with
1:20:53
Speaker 1: the buck board, while I was congratulating myself and thanking
1:20:56
Speaker 1: my lucky stars for the accident to my ankle, Pachies
1:20:59
Speaker 1: jumped the board and gave me in my one passenger,
1:21:02
Speaker 1: Charlie Block of Wickenberg, severe tussle for it. We bit
1:21:06
Speaker 1: them off in the end, owing to superior marksmanship, and
1:21:10
Speaker 1: arrived in Wickenberg unhurt. Block was part owner of the
1:21:13
Speaker 1: Barnet and Block store in Wickenberg and was a well
1:21:15
Speaker 1: known man in that section. After this incident, I determined
1:21:20
Speaker 1: quit driving stages and buckboards and casting about for some
1:21:23
Speaker 1: new line of endeavor. Went for the first time to
1:21:26
Speaker 1: the restaurant business for myself. The town needed an establishment
1:21:30
Speaker 1: of the kind I put up, and as I had
1:21:32
Speaker 1: always been a good cook. I cleaned up handsomely, especially
1:21:35
Speaker 1: as it was while I was running the restaurant that
1:21:37
Speaker 1: miner started his notorious stampede, when thousands of gold mad
1:21:41
Speaker 1: men followed a willow wisp trail to fabulously rich diggings,
1:21:44
Speaker 1: which turned out to be entirely mythical. It was astonishing
1:21:48
Speaker 1: how little was required in those days to start a stampede.
1:21:52
Speaker 1: A stranger might come in town with a poke of
1:21:54
Speaker 1: gold dust. He would naturally be asked where he had
1:21:57
Speaker 1: made the strike. As a matter of fact, he probably
1:21:59
Speaker 1: had washed a dozen different streams to get the pope full.
1:22:03
Speaker 1: But under the influenced liquor, he might reply, oh, over
1:22:06
Speaker 1: on the San Carlos, or the San Pedro, or some
1:22:09
Speaker 1: other stream. It did not require that he should state
1:22:12
Speaker 1: how rich the streak was or whether it had panned out.
1:22:15
Speaker 1: All that was necessary to start a mad rush in
1:22:17
Speaker 1: the direction he had designated was the sight of his
1:22:20
Speaker 1: gold and the magic word streak. Many were the trails
1:22:23
Speaker 1: that led to death are bitter disappointment. In Arizona's early days,
1:22:27
Speaker 1: most of the old prospectors did not see the results
1:22:30
Speaker 1: of their own strikes, nor sharing the profits from them
1:22:32
Speaker 1: after their first pope had been obtained. There was old
1:22:35
Speaker 1: John Waring, for instance, who found gold on a tributary
1:22:38
Speaker 1: with Colorado Blue and Arizona City, got drunk and told
1:22:42
Speaker 1: of his find gold, gold LUTs of it. He informed
1:22:47
Speaker 1: them drunkenly, incoherently, and woke up the next morning to
1:22:50
Speaker 1: find a half the town had disappeared in the direction
1:22:52
Speaker 1: of his claim. He rushed to the registry office to
1:22:55
Speaker 1: register his claim, which he had foolishly forgotten to do
1:22:58
Speaker 1: the night before. He found that already registered, some.
1:23:02
Speaker 2: Unscrupulous rascal had filched his secret even to the exact
1:23:05
Speaker 2: location of his claim from the aged miner, and had
1:23:08
Speaker 2: gotten ahead of him in registering it.
1:23:10
Speaker 1: No claim is really legal until it is registered, although
1:23:13
Speaker 1: in the mining camps of the old days it was
1:23:14
Speaker 1: a formality often dispensed with since claim jumpers met a
1:23:17
Speaker 1: prompt and drastic punishment. Many other instances, the big mining
1:23:22
Speaker 1: men gobbled up smaller ones basually at a later period
1:23:26
Speaker 1: when most of the big mines were grouped under a
1:23:27
Speaker 1: few large managements, with consequent great advantage over their smaller competitors. Indeed,
1:23:32
Speaker 1: there is comparatively little incentive now for a prospector to
1:23:36
Speaker 1: set out in Arizona, because if he chances to stumble
1:23:38
Speaker 1: on a really rich prospect attempts of working himself, he
1:23:42
Speaker 1: is likely to be so browbeaten that he is finally
1:23:44
Speaker 1: forced to sell out to some large concern. There are
1:23:47
Speaker 1: only a few smelters in or near the state, and
1:23:49
Speaker 1: these are controlled by large mining companies. Very well, we
1:23:53
Speaker 1: will suppose a hypothetical case. A being a prospector, finds
1:24:00
Speaker 1: opper mind. He says to himself, here's good property. It
1:24:04
Speaker 1: ought to make me rich. I won't sell it. I'll
1:24:06
Speaker 1: hold on to it and work it myself. So far,
1:24:09
Speaker 1: so good. A starts in to work his mind. He
1:24:14
Speaker 1: digs therefrom considerable rich ore. Now a problem presents itself.
1:24:20
Speaker 1: He has no concentrator, no smelter of his own. He
1:24:23
Speaker 1: cannot afford to build one. Therefore, it is perfectly obvious
1:24:27
Speaker 1: that he cannot crush his own ore. He must then
1:24:30
Speaker 1: send it elsewhere to be smelted, and to do this
1:24:33
Speaker 1: must sell his or to the smelter. In the meantime,
1:24:37
Speaker 1: a certain big mining company has investigated A's fine and
1:24:40
Speaker 1: has seen that it is rich. The company desires the property,
1:24:44
Speaker 1: as it desires all other rich properties. It offers to
1:24:47
Speaker 1: buy the mind for some far below its actual value. Naturally,
1:24:51
Speaker 1: the finder refuses, but he must smelt his horror, and
1:24:56
Speaker 1: to smelt it he finds he is compelled to sell
1:24:58
Speaker 1: it to a smelter that is controlled by the mining
1:25:00
Speaker 1: company whose offerer he has refused. He sends his or
1:25:04
Speaker 1: to the smelter, back comes to quotation for his product
1:25:07
Speaker 1: at a price ridiculously low. That's what we'll give you,
1:25:12
Speaker 1: says the company through its proxy the smelter. Take it
1:25:16
Speaker 1: or leave it, or words to the effect. Now what
1:25:20
Speaker 1: can they do? Nothing at all. He must either sell
1:25:23
Speaker 1: his ore at an actual loss, or sell his mind
1:25:25
Speaker 1: to the company. Naturally he does the latter, and not
1:25:29
Speaker 1: a figure he finds considerably lower than the first offer.
1:25:32
Speaker 1: A large concern has him where it wanted him, and
1:25:35
Speaker 1: it snuffs out his dreams of wealth and prosperity. Effectively,
1:25:39
Speaker 1: these observations are disinterested. I have never, curiously enough heeded
1:25:43
Speaker 1: the insistent call of the diggings. I have never washed
1:25:47
Speaker 1: a pan, and my name has never appeared on the
1:25:50
Speaker 1: share list of a mind. And this too has been
1:25:53
Speaker 1: in spite of the fact that I often have been
1:25:55
Speaker 1: directly in the paths of various excitements. I've always been
1:25:59
Speaker 1: wise enough to see that the men who made the
1:26:00
Speaker 1: rapid fortunes in gold were not the man who stampeded
1:26:03
Speaker 1: head over heels to the diggings, but the men who
1:26:05
Speaker 1: stayed behind and opened up some kind of business which
1:26:07
Speaker 1: the gold seekers would patronize. These were the reapers of
1:26:11
Speaker 1: the harvest, and there was a little risk in their game,
1:26:13
Speaker 1: although the stakes were high. I have said that I
1:26:16
Speaker 1: never owned a mining share. Well, I never did, but
1:26:19
Speaker 1: once I came close to owning a part share, and
1:26:21
Speaker 1: what is now the richest copper mine on earth, mine
1:26:24
Speaker 1: that with Theanikonda in Montana, almost determines the price of
1:26:28
Speaker 1: raw copper. I will tell you the tale. Along in
1:26:32
Speaker 1: the mid seventies, I think it was seventy four, I
1:26:35
Speaker 1: was a partner with a man named George Stevens at
1:26:37
Speaker 1: Eureka Springs, west of Fort Thomas and the Apache Country,
1:26:40
Speaker 1: a trading station for freighters. We were owners of the
1:26:44
Speaker 1: trading station, which was some distant south of where the
1:26:47
Speaker 1: copper cities of Globe and Miami are now situated. We
1:26:51
Speaker 1: made very good money at station, and Stevens and I
1:26:53
Speaker 1: decided to have some repairs and additions built to the store.
1:26:56
Speaker 1: We looked around for a mason, and finally hired one
1:26:59
Speaker 1: name George Warren, competent man whose only fault was a
1:27:03
Speaker 1: fineness for the cup that cheers. Warren was also a
1:27:06
Speaker 1: prospector of some note, and had made several rich strikes.
1:27:10
Speaker 1: It was known that while he had never found a bonanza,
1:27:13
Speaker 1: wherever he announced pay dirt, there pay dirt invariably was
1:27:17
Speaker 1: to be found. In other words, he had a reputation
1:27:20
Speaker 1: for reliability that was valuable to him, and of which
1:27:24
Speaker 1: he was intensely vain. He was a man with hunches,
1:27:27
Speaker 1: and hunches curiously enough that almost always made good. These
1:27:32
Speaker 1: hunters were more or less frequent at Warren. He usually
1:27:35
Speaker 1: came when he was broke. For like all prospectors, Warren
1:27:38
Speaker 1: found a highly inconvenient, ever, to be the possessor of
1:27:41
Speaker 1: a large sum of money for any length of time.
1:27:43
Speaker 1: He had been known to say to a friend, I've
1:27:45
Speaker 1: got a hunch, disappear, and in a week or two
1:27:48
Speaker 1: returned with a liberal amount of dust. Between hunches, he
1:27:51
Speaker 1: worked at his trade. When he had completed his work
1:27:55
Speaker 1: on the store at Eureka, springs for myself and Stephen's.
1:27:58
Speaker 1: Warren drew me aside one night, very confidently informed me
1:28:01
Speaker 1: that he had a hunch. Welcome to it, George, I said,
1:28:05
Speaker 1: and something calling me away at that moment. I did
1:28:08
Speaker 1: not hear of him again until I returned from New
1:28:10
Speaker 1: Fort Grant, whither I had gone with a load of hay,
1:28:13
Speaker 1: for which we had a valuable contract with the government.
1:28:16
Speaker 1: Then Stephen's informed me that Warren had told him of
1:28:19
Speaker 1: his hunch, had asked for a grub steak, and on
1:28:22
Speaker 1: being given one, had departed in a southerly direction, with
1:28:25
Speaker 1: the information that he expected to make a fine over
1:28:28
Speaker 1: in the Dose Cabezos direction. He was gone several weeks,
1:28:31
Speaker 1: and then one day stephen said to me quietly, John
1:28:35
Speaker 1: Warren's back. Yes, I answered, Did he make a strike?
1:28:41
Speaker 1: He found a copper mine, said Stevens, Oh, only copper,
1:28:46
Speaker 1: I laughed. That hunt system of his must got tarnished
1:28:48
Speaker 1: by this time. Then, you see, copper at that time
1:28:52
Speaker 1: was worth next to nothing. There was no big smelter
1:28:54
Speaker 1: in the territory, and it was almost impossible to sell
1:28:57
Speaker 1: the oar. So it was natural enough that neither myself, elf,
1:29:00
Speaker 1: nor Stevens should feel particularly jubilant over Warren's strike. One
1:29:05
Speaker 1: day thought to ask Warren whether he had christened his
1:29:07
Speaker 1: mind yet, as was the custom, I'm going to call
1:29:10
Speaker 1: it the Copper Queen, he said. I laughed at him
1:29:14
Speaker 1: for the name, but admitted it was a good one.
1:29:17
Speaker 1: That mind, today, reader, is one of the greatest copper
1:29:19
Speaker 1: properties in the world. It is worth about a billion dollars.
1:29:22
Speaker 1: The syndicate that owns it owns as well a good
1:29:24
Speaker 1: slice of Arizona syndicate. I hear you ask, why what
1:29:29
Speaker 1: about Warren, the man who found the mine, and Stevens,
1:29:31
Speaker 1: the man who grew upstaked in Ah? What about them?
1:29:35
Speaker 1: George Stevens better share on the mine against seventy five
1:29:38
Speaker 1: dollars at a horse race one day and lost. George Warren,
1:29:41
Speaker 1: the man with the infallible hunch, died years back in
1:29:44
Speaker 1: squalid misery, driven thereby drink in the memory of many
1:29:47
Speaker 1: empty discoveries. The syndicate that obtained the mind from Warren
1:29:51
Speaker 1: gave him a penchion amply sufficient for his needs. I
1:29:53
Speaker 1: believe it is but fair to state that had the
1:29:56
Speaker 1: mind been retained by Warren, the probabilities are he would
1:29:59
Speaker 1: never have been developed. Worn, like other old prospectors, was
1:30:03
Speaker 1: a genius at finding pay streaks, but a failure when
1:30:06
Speaker 1: it came to exploiting them. That, reader, is the true
1:30:10
Speaker 1: story of the discovery of the Copper Queen, the mind
1:30:12
Speaker 1: that has made a dozen fortunes in two cities Bisbee
1:30:15
Speaker 1: and Douglas. If I had gone in with Steven's and
1:30:18
Speaker 1: grubstaking poor Warren, would I, too, I wonder, have sold
1:30:22
Speaker 1: my share for some foolish trifle, or recklessly gambled away.
1:30:26
Speaker 1: I wonder probably I should. End of chapter five, Chapter
1:30:39
Speaker 1: six Arizona's Yesterday by John Caddie and Basil wound this
1:30:46
Speaker 1: LibriVox recordings into public domain recording by Tony Pissante, a
1:30:52
Speaker 1: frontier businessman, the chip of Chisel Humble saw the stones
1:31:00
Speaker 1: ugus laide. The city grew, and, helped by its law men,
1:31:04
Speaker 1: many fortunes made. Song of the City by T. Burgess.
1:31:11
Speaker 1: The Phoenix Man was in Patagonia recently, and I don't
1:31:15
Speaker 1: say he was a typical Phoenix man commented in a
1:31:18
Speaker 1: spare tone on the size of the town. Why he said,
1:31:23
Speaker 1: as if he clinched the argument, Phoenix would make ten
1:31:26
Speaker 1: Patagonias and then some I assented. But sonny, I built
1:31:32
Speaker 1: the third house in Phoenix, did you know that? And
1:31:34
Speaker 1: I burnt Indian green fields in the Salt River Valley
1:31:36
Speaker 1: long before anyone ever thought of building a city there.
1:31:40
Speaker 1: Even a big city has had some time to be
1:31:42
Speaker 1: a small one that settled it. The Phoenix gentleman said
1:31:47
Speaker 1: no more. I told him only the exact truth when
1:31:50
Speaker 1: I said that I had built the third house in Phoenix.
1:31:54
Speaker 1: After I had started at the Wickenberg restaurant, came rumors
1:31:57
Speaker 1: that a new city was to be started in the
1:31:58
Speaker 1: fertile Salt River Valley alley between Sacaton and Prescott, some
1:32:02
Speaker 1: forty or fifty miles north of the former place. Stories
1:32:06
Speaker 1: came the men had tilled the land of the valley
1:32:08
Speaker 1: and have found it would grow almost anything. As indeed,
1:32:11
Speaker 1: it has since been found that any land in Arizona
1:32:14
Speaker 1: will do, providing the waters obtained to irrigate it. One
1:32:18
Speaker 1: of Arizona's most wonderful phenomenon is the sudden greening of
1:32:22
Speaker 1: the sandy stretches after a heavy rain. One day, everything
1:32:26
Speaker 1: is sun dried brown. As far as the eye can see,
1:32:29
Speaker 1: every arroyo is dry. The very cactus seems shriveled, and
1:32:32
Speaker 1: the deep blue the sky gives no promise of any relief.
1:32:36
Speaker 1: Then in the night, thunder clouds roll up from the
1:32:39
Speaker 1: panted hills, a tropical deluge resembling a cloud burst falls,
1:32:43
Speaker 1: and in the morning low whereas yellow sand parched from
1:32:47
Speaker 1: months to drought, is now spread in green grass. It
1:32:50
Speaker 1: is a marvelous transformation, a miracle never to be forgotten
1:32:54
Speaker 1: by one who has seen it. However, irrigation is absolutely
1:32:59
Speaker 1: necessary to till the soil in most districts of Arizona,
1:33:02
Speaker 1: though in some sections of the state dry farming has
1:33:05
Speaker 1: been successfully resorted to. It has been said that Arizona
1:33:09
Speaker 1: has more rivers and less water than any state in
1:33:11
Speaker 1: the Union, and this is true. Many of these are
1:33:14
Speaker 1: rivers only in their any season, which in the desert
1:33:17
Speaker 1: generally comes about the middle of July and last until
1:33:19
Speaker 1: early fall. Others are what is known as sinking rivers,
1:33:23
Speaker 1: flowing above ground for parts of their course, sand as
1:33:26
Speaker 1: frequently sinking below the sand to reappur further. Along. The
1:33:31
Speaker 1: Sonoita upon which Patagonia is situated, is one of these
1:33:34
Speaker 1: disappearing rivers, the water coming up out of the sand
1:33:37
Speaker 1: about a half mile from the main street. The big rivers,
1:33:41
Speaker 1: the Colorado, the Salt, the Upper Hill, and the San
1:33:44
Speaker 1: Pedro run the year round, and there are several smaller
1:33:47
Speaker 1: streams in the more fertile districts that do the same thing.
1:33:51
Speaker 1: Larger part of the Arizona Desert is not barren sand,
1:33:54
Speaker 1: but fertile sealed in adobe, needing only water to make
1:33:57
Speaker 1: it the best possible soil for farming purposes. Favored by
1:34:01
Speaker 1: a mild winter climate, the Salt River Valley can be
1:34:04
Speaker 1: made to produce crops of some kind each month in
1:34:06
Speaker 1: the year, fruits in the fall, vegetables in the winter season,
1:34:10
Speaker 1: grains and spring in alfalfa the principal crop throughout the summer.
1:34:15
Speaker 1: A succession of crops may oftentimes be grown during the
1:34:18
Speaker 1: year on one farm, so that irrigated lands in Arizona
1:34:21
Speaker 1: yields several times to produce obtainable in the Eastern States,
1:34:26
Speaker 1: alfalfa may be cut six or seven times a year,
1:34:28
Speaker 1: with a yield as much as ten tons to the acre.
1:34:32
Speaker 1: Finest Egyptian cotton free from the bowl weevil scourge may
1:34:36
Speaker 1: also be grown successfully and is fast becoming one of
1:34:38
Speaker 1: the staple products of the state. Potatoes, strawberries, pears, peaches,
1:34:43
Speaker 1: and melons from temperate climates, and citrus fruits, sourgum, grains
1:34:48
Speaker 1: and date palms from subtropical regions. Gives some idea of
1:34:52
Speaker 1: the range of crops possible here. Many farmers from the
1:34:55
Speaker 1: Eastern and Southern States and from California, finding this out,
1:34:58
Speaker 1: begin to take up land, the irrigating ditches and make homes.
1:35:02
Speaker 1: In Arizona, fifteen or twenty pioneers had gone to the
1:35:06
Speaker 1: Salt River Valley while I was at Wickenberg, and there
1:35:09
Speaker 1: had taken up quarter sections on which they raised chiefly barley, wheat, corn,
1:35:14
Speaker 1: and hay. Little fruit was also experimented in. Some of
1:35:18
Speaker 1: the men who were on the ground beginning I remember
1:35:21
Speaker 1: to have been Dennis and Murphy, Tom Gray, Jack Walters, Johnny, George,
1:35:27
Speaker 1: George Monroe, Joe Fugit, Jack Swilling, Patterson, the Parkers, the Sorrels,
1:35:33
Speaker 1: the Fenters, and a few others whose names I do
1:35:36
Speaker 1: not recall. A town site had been laid out, streets surveyed,
1:35:40
Speaker 1: and before long it became known that the territory had
1:35:42
Speaker 1: a new city, the name of which was Phoenix. The
1:35:47
Speaker 1: story of the Way in which the name Phoenix was
1:35:49
Speaker 1: given to the city that in future days was to
1:35:51
Speaker 1: become the metropolis of the state. Is interesting. When the
1:35:55
Speaker 1: minor excitement was over outside and moved to the new
1:35:57
Speaker 1: Salt River town site, and soon after my arrival there
1:36:00
Speaker 1: attended a meeting of citizens gathered together to name the
1:36:02
Speaker 1: new city. Practically every settler in the valley was at
1:36:06
Speaker 1: this meeting, which was destined to become a historic Among
1:36:10
Speaker 1: those present was a Frenchman named Darryl Duper or Dupierre,
1:36:14
Speaker 1: as his name has sometimes been written, who was a
1:36:17
Speaker 1: highly educated man and had lived in Arizona for a
1:36:19
Speaker 1: number of years. When the question of naming the town
1:36:23
Speaker 1: site came up, several suggestions were offered, among them being
1:36:26
Speaker 1: Salt City, Aricropolis, and others. Duper rose to his feet
1:36:31
Speaker 1: suggested the city be called Phoenix, because he explained that
1:36:35
Speaker 1: Phoenix was a bird of beautiful plumage and exceptional voice,
1:36:39
Speaker 1: which lived for five hundred years, and then, after channing
1:36:41
Speaker 1: its death song, pared to Charlele House for itself and
1:36:44
Speaker 1: was cremated, after which a new and glorified bird arose
1:36:47
Speaker 1: from the ashes to live a magnificent existence forever. Duper
1:36:51
Speaker 1: finished his suggestion and explanation, the meeting voted on the names,
1:36:54
Speaker 1: and the Frenchman's choice was decided upon Phoenix. It has
1:36:58
Speaker 1: been ever since before I had been in Phoenix many days.
1:37:02
Speaker 1: I commenced the building of a restaurant, which I named
1:37:04
Speaker 1: the Capitol Restaurant. The capital was then at Prescott, having
1:37:08
Speaker 1: been moved from Tucson. But my name evidently must have
1:37:11
Speaker 1: been prophetic, for the capital city of Arizona is now
1:37:13
Speaker 1: none other than Phoenix, which at the present day probably
1:37:16
Speaker 1: has the largest population of the state, over twenty thousand.
1:37:21
Speaker 1: Soon did I gained another interest in Phoenix. Beside the restaurant.
1:37:25
Speaker 1: The Capital made me much money, and I invested what
1:37:27
Speaker 1: I did not spend in having a good time in
1:37:30
Speaker 1: various other enterprises. I went into the butcher business with
1:37:33
Speaker 1: steel and Copeland built the first bakery in Phoenix. I
1:37:37
Speaker 1: staked two men to a ranch north of the city,
1:37:39
Speaker 1: from which I later on proceeded to flood the territory
1:37:42
Speaker 1: with sweet potatoes. I was the first man, by the way,
1:37:45
Speaker 1: to grow sweet potatoes in Arizona. I built a saloon
1:37:48
Speaker 1: in Dance Hall, and in this naturally was my quickest turnover.
1:37:54
Speaker 1: I am not an apologist, least of all for myself.
1:37:57
Speaker 1: And as this is the true story of a life
1:37:59
Speaker 1: I believed have been exceptionally varied, I think that in
1:38:02
Speaker 1: it should be related to things I did which might
1:38:05
Speaker 1: be considered bad nowadays, as well as the things I did, which,
1:38:10
Speaker 1: by the same token present day's civilization may consider good.
1:38:15
Speaker 1: I may relate therefore that for some years I was
1:38:17
Speaker 1: known as the largest liquor dealer in the territory, as
1:38:20
Speaker 1: well as one of the shrewdest hands at cards. Although
1:38:24
Speaker 1: I employed men to do the work, often players would
1:38:26
Speaker 1: assist on my deal in the mondy deck or laying
1:38:28
Speaker 1: down the Pharaoh layout for them. I played for big steaks, too,
1:38:32
Speaker 1: bigger steaks than people play for nowadays in the West.
1:38:37
Speaker 1: Many times I have sat down with the equivalent of
1:38:39
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars in chips and played them all away,
1:38:42
Speaker 1: only to regain them again, without thinking it anything particularly
1:38:45
Speaker 1: unusual as games go, I was considered lucky for a gambler,
1:38:51
Speaker 1: well not superstitious. I believe in this luck mine, and
1:38:55
Speaker 1: this is probably the reason that it held good for
1:38:57
Speaker 1: so long. If of late, various things, things, chiefly the
1:39:00
Speaker 1: mining depression, have made my fortunes all to the bad.
1:39:04
Speaker 1: I am no man of wine. At the inevitable I
1:39:07
Speaker 1: could take my eppicac along with the next man. There
1:39:12
Speaker 1: were few men in the old days in Phoenix, or
1:39:14
Speaker 1: indeed the entire territory, who did not drink liquor, and
1:39:17
Speaker 1: lots of it. In fact, it may be said that
1:39:19
Speaker 1: the entire fabric of the territory was constructed on liquor.
1:39:23
Speaker 1: The pioneers are most of them whisky fiends, as were
1:39:25
Speaker 1: the gamblers. By this I am not defending the liquor traffic.
1:39:30
Speaker 1: I have sold more liquor than any man in Arizona
1:39:32
Speaker 1: over the bar in my lifetime. But I voted dry
1:39:35
Speaker 1: at the last election. I hear to my belief that
1:39:37
Speaker 1: a whiskeyless Arizona will be the best for our children
1:39:40
Speaker 1: and our children's children. During my residence in Phoenix, Daryldoper,
1:39:46
Speaker 1: the man who had christened the town, became one of
1:39:48
Speaker 1: my best friends. He kept a post and trading storey
1:39:50
Speaker 1: desert station, at which place was the only water to
1:39:53
Speaker 1: be found between Phoenix and Wickenberg, if I remember correctly,
1:39:57
Speaker 1: The station made him wealthy. Duper was originally Count Duperre
1:40:02
Speaker 1: and came of a noted aristocratic French family. His forefathers
1:40:06
Speaker 1: were I believe, prominent in the court of Louis the
1:40:09
Speaker 1: fourteenth When a young man, he committed some foolhardy act
1:40:13
Speaker 1: in France and was banished by his people, who sent
1:40:15
Speaker 1: him a monthly remittance on condition that he get as
1:40:18
Speaker 1: far away from his home as he could and stay
1:40:21
Speaker 1: there to fulfill the terms of this agreement to Perry
1:40:25
Speaker 1: came to Arizona among the early pioneers, and soon proved
1:40:29
Speaker 1: that he had the stuff of a real man in him.
1:40:31
Speaker 1: He learned English and americanized his name to Duper. He
1:40:35
Speaker 1: engaged in various enterprises, and finally started a desert station,
1:40:39
Speaker 1: where he made his fortune. He was a curious character
1:40:42
Speaker 1: as he became older. Sometimes he would stay away from
1:40:45
Speaker 1: Phoenix for several months, and then one day he would
1:40:48
Speaker 1: appear with a few thousand dollars, more or less, spend
1:40:51
Speaker 1: every cent of it in treating the boys of my house,
1:40:53
Speaker 1: and blow back home again, generally in my debt. He
1:40:57
Speaker 1: used to sing Lie Marseilles. It was the only he knew,
1:41:01
Speaker 1: and after the first few drinks, would solemnly mounted table,
1:41:04
Speaker 1: sing a few verses of the magnificent revolutionary song call
1:41:08
Speaker 1: on me to do likewise, and then treat the house.
1:41:13
Speaker 1: Often he did this several times each night, and as
1:41:16
Speaker 1: treating the house invariably cost at least thirty dollars, and
1:41:20
Speaker 1: he was an inveterate gambler, we will be seen that
1:41:23
Speaker 1: in one way or another I managed to secure considerable
1:41:26
Speaker 1: of old Duper's fortune. His partiality did Marseilles leads me
1:41:31
Speaker 1: to the belief that he was banished for participation in
1:41:34
Speaker 1: one of the French revolutions, but this I cannot state positively.
1:41:40
Speaker 1: One occasion, I remember that I was visiting with Duper
1:41:42
Speaker 1: and we made a trip together somewhere, Duper leaving his
1:41:45
Speaker 1: cook in charge. When we return, nobody noticed us, and
1:41:49
Speaker 1: I happened to look through a window before entering the house. Hastily,
1:41:53
Speaker 1: I beckoned to Duper. The frenchman's cook was sitting on
1:41:56
Speaker 1: his bed with a pile of money, the day's takings
1:41:59
Speaker 1: in front of him. He was dividing the pile into
1:42:01
Speaker 1: two halves. Taking one bill off the pile, he would
1:42:04
Speaker 1: lay it to one side and say, this is for Duper.
1:42:07
Speaker 1: Then he'd take the next bill, lay it on another
1:42:09
Speaker 1: spot and say and this one is for me. We
1:42:13
Speaker 1: watched him through the window unoticed until he came to
1:42:15
Speaker 1: the last ten other bill. It was odd. The cook
1:42:18
Speaker 1: deliberated a few moments, finally put the bill on top
1:42:21
Speaker 1: of the pile he had reserved for himself. Then Duper,
1:42:25
Speaker 1: whose face had been a study in emotions, could keep
1:42:28
Speaker 1: still no longer. Hey there, he yelled, play fair, play fair,
1:42:34
Speaker 1: Give you up that tense spot. What happened afterwards to
1:42:39
Speaker 1: that cook? I do not remember. Duper was good sport.
1:42:44
Speaker 1: End of chapter six, Chapter seven, Arizona's Yesterday by John
1:42:56
Speaker 1: Katie and Basso Wound. This LibriVox recording is in the
1:43:00
Speaker 1: public domain recording by Tony Pissante Ventures and Adventures. Hush,
1:43:10
Speaker 1: what brooding stillness is hanging over all? What's this talk
1:43:14
Speaker 1: in whispers? And that placard on the wall? Ah? I
1:43:18
Speaker 1: see it now they are going to hang a man.
1:43:22
Speaker 1: Judge Lynch is on the ramparts and the laws and
1:43:26
Speaker 1: also ran Wound. Reader. Have you ever seen the look
1:43:33
Speaker 1: in the man's eyes after he has been condemned by
1:43:35
Speaker 1: that Court of last appeal his fellow men? I have
1:43:40
Speaker 1: many times. It is a look without a shadow of
1:43:43
Speaker 1: hope left a look of dread at the ferocity of
1:43:46
Speaker 1: the mob, a look of fear at what is to
1:43:48
Speaker 1: come afterwards, and seldom a hint of defiance lurks in
1:43:52
Speaker 1: such a man's expression. I have seen him figured in
1:43:56
Speaker 1: many lynchings. In the old days. They were the inseparables,
1:43:59
Speaker 1: the frontier and Judge Lynch. If a white man killed
1:44:04
Speaker 1: a Mexican or Indian, nothing was done except perhaps the
1:44:07
Speaker 1: hole the farce of a trial with the killer in
1:44:09
Speaker 1: the end turned loose. And if a white man killed
1:44:13
Speaker 1: another white man there was seldom much outcry, unless the
1:44:16
Speaker 1: case was cold blood and murder, or the killer was
1:44:18
Speaker 1: already unpopular. But let a Mexican or an Indian lift
1:44:22
Speaker 1: one finger against a white man, and the whole strength
1:44:25
Speaker 1: of the whites was against him. In a moment. He
1:44:27
Speaker 1: was hounded to his whole dragged forth, tried by a
1:44:31
Speaker 1: committee of citizens, over whom Judge Lynch sat with awful solemnity,
1:44:36
Speaker 1: and was forthwith hung. More or less of this was
1:44:40
Speaker 1: in some degree necessary. The killing him an apache was
1:44:43
Speaker 1: account of a good day's work, since it probably meant
1:44:46
Speaker 1: that the murder of several white men had gone to
1:44:48
Speaker 1: his doom to kill a Mexican only meant that another
1:44:52
Speaker 1: bad umbre had gone to his just desserts. And most
1:44:56
Speaker 1: of the Mexicans in Arizona in yearly days were bad horaize.
1:45:01
Speaker 1: There was no doubt about that. It was they who
1:45:04
Speaker 1: gave the Mexican such a bad name on the frontier,
1:45:07
Speaker 1: and it was they who first earned the title greaser.
1:45:10
Speaker 1: They were a murderous, treacherous lot of rascals. In the
1:45:14
Speaker 1: Wickenberg Stage massacre, for instance, it was known that several
1:45:17
Speaker 1: Mexicans were involved with choppers. One of these Mexicans was
1:45:22
Speaker 1: hunting for weeks and was caught. Soon after I arrived
1:45:24
Speaker 1: in Phoenix. I was running my dance hall when a
1:45:27
Speaker 1: committee of citizens met in a mass meeting and decided
1:45:30
Speaker 1: that the law was too slow in its working and
1:45:32
Speaker 1: gave the Mexican too great an opportunity to escape. The
1:45:35
Speaker 1: meeting then resolved itself into a hanging committee, broke up
1:45:39
Speaker 1: in the jail, seized the prisoner from the arms of
1:45:41
Speaker 1: the sheriff, and hung them to the rafters just inside
1:45:44
Speaker 1: the jail door. That done, they returned to their homes
1:45:47
Speaker 1: and occupations, satisfied that at least one greaser had not
1:45:50
Speaker 1: evaded the full penalty of his crimes. Soon after, a
1:45:54
Speaker 1: Mexican arrived in town with a string of cows to sell.
1:45:57
Speaker 1: Somebody recognized the cows as ones that belonged to a
1:46:00
Speaker 1: rancher named Patterson. The Mexican was arrested by citizens and
1:46:03
Speaker 1: horsemen sent out to investigate. Patterson was found killed at
1:46:08
Speaker 1: once and with little ceremony. The Mexican with the cattle
1:46:11
Speaker 1: was strung up to the cross of a gate post,
1:46:14
Speaker 1: his body being left to sway in the wind until
1:46:16
Speaker 1: somebody came along with sufficient decency to cut it down.
1:46:20
Speaker 1: Talking about lynchings reminds me of an incident that almost
1:46:23
Speaker 1: slipped my mind. Before I went to Wickenberg from Tucson,
1:46:26
Speaker 1: I became partners with a man named Robert Swope in
1:46:29
Speaker 1: a bar and gambling layout in a little place called Adamsville,
1:46:33
Speaker 1: a few miles below where Florence now is on the
1:46:36
Speaker 1: heathl River. Swope was tending bar one night when an
1:46:39
Speaker 1: American shot him dead and got away. The murderer was
1:46:42
Speaker 1: soon afterwards captured in Twoside and lynched in company with
1:46:45
Speaker 1: two Mexicans who were concerned in the murder of a
1:46:47
Speaker 1: pawnbroker there in Phoenix, I married my first wife, whose
1:46:51
Speaker 1: given name was Ruficia. Soon afterwards I moved to Tucson, where,
1:46:56
Speaker 1: after being award one child, I had domestic trouble which
1:46:59
Speaker 1: ended in courts. My wife finally returned to Phoenix, being
1:47:03
Speaker 1: free again, married a man named Murphy. After this experience,
1:47:07
Speaker 1: I determined to take no further chances with matrimony. Whoever,
1:47:10
Speaker 1: I needed a help mate, so I solved a difficulty
1:47:13
Speaker 1: by marrying Paolo or Tega by contract for five years.
1:47:17
Speaker 1: Contract marriages were universally recognized and indulged in in the
1:47:20
Speaker 1: West of the early days. My relations with Paola were
1:47:24
Speaker 1: eminently satisfactory until the expiration of the contract, when she
1:47:28
Speaker 1: went her way and I mine. Before I leave the
1:47:31
Speaker 1: subject of Phoenix, it will be well to mention that
1:47:33
Speaker 1: when I left, I sold all my property there, consisting
1:47:36
Speaker 1: of some twenty two lots, all in the heart of
1:47:39
Speaker 1: the city, for practically a song. Six of these lots
1:47:42
Speaker 1: were situated were now as a big planning mill. Several
1:47:46
Speaker 1: lots I sold to a German for a span of mules.
1:47:49
Speaker 1: The German is alive today and lives in Phoenix, a
1:47:51
Speaker 1: wealthy man, simply because he had the foresight and acumen
1:47:54
Speaker 1: to do what I did not do hang on to
1:47:56
Speaker 1: his real estate. If I had kept those twenty two
1:47:59
Speaker 1: lots until now wow, without doing more than simply pay
1:48:01
Speaker 1: my taxes on them, my fortune today would be comfortably
1:48:05
Speaker 1: up in the six figures. Whoever I sold the lots.
1:48:08
Speaker 1: And there's no use crying over spilt milk. Men are
1:48:10
Speaker 1: doing today all over the world just what I did then.
1:48:14
Speaker 1: I had not been in Tucson long before I built
1:48:17
Speaker 1: there the largest saloon dance hall in the territory, excepting
1:48:21
Speaker 1: for one flyer in Florence, which I shall speak of
1:48:23
Speaker 1: later on. This was to be my last venture into
1:48:26
Speaker 1: the liquor business. My hall was modeled after those on
1:48:29
Speaker 1: the Barbary Coast. It costs four bits and drinks to dance,
1:48:33
Speaker 1: and the dances lasted only a few minutes. At one
1:48:36
Speaker 1: time I had thirteen Mexican girls dancing in the hall,
1:48:38
Speaker 1: and this number was increased on special days till the
1:48:41
Speaker 1: flora was crowded. I always did good business, so good
1:48:44
Speaker 1: in fact, that jealousy aroused in the minds of my
1:48:47
Speaker 1: rivals finally forced me out. Since then, as I have said,
1:48:51
Speaker 1: with the single Florence exception, I have not been in
1:48:53
Speaker 1: the dance hall business, excepting that I now have, at
1:48:56
Speaker 1: some expense, put a ball room into my hotel at Padagoon,
1:49:00
Speaker 1: in which are held at times social dances which most
1:49:03
Speaker 1: of the young folk of the county attend, the liquor
1:49:06
Speaker 1: element being entirely absent, of course, besides paying a heavy
1:49:11
Speaker 1: license for the privilege of selling liquor in my Tucson
1:49:13
Speaker 1: dance hall, I was compelled every morning, in addition to
1:49:17
Speaker 1: pay over five dollars as a license for the dance
1:49:20
Speaker 1: hall on a dollar fifty collector's fee, which, if not
1:49:22
Speaker 1: paid out every morning as regularly as clockwork, would have
1:49:26
Speaker 1: threatened my business. I did not complain of this tax.
1:49:30
Speaker 1: It was a fair one considering the volume of trade
1:49:32
Speaker 1: I did. But my patronage grew and grew, until there
1:49:35
Speaker 1: came a day when Katie's Place, as it was known,
1:49:38
Speaker 1: was making more money for its owner than any similar
1:49:40
Speaker 1: establishment in Arizona. The saloon keepers in Tucson became inordinately
1:49:45
Speaker 1: jealous and determined to put in to my luck, as
1:49:48
Speaker 1: they called it. Accordingly, nine months after I had opened
1:49:51
Speaker 1: my place, these gentlemen used their influence quietly with the
1:49:54
Speaker 1: legislature and jobbed me. The license was raised for dance
1:49:58
Speaker 1: halls at one bound to twenty five dollars per night.
1:50:01
Speaker 1: This was the heavier tax that even my business would stand.
1:50:04
Speaker 1: So I set out about once looking for somebody on
1:50:07
Speaker 1: whom to unload the property. I claim originality, if not
1:50:11
Speaker 1: a particular observance of ethics in doing this. One day
1:50:15
Speaker 1: a man came along, when he saw the crowd in
1:50:17
Speaker 1: the hall, suggested I sell him a share in the enterprise. No,
1:50:21
Speaker 1: I replied, I'm not selling you a share, but to
1:50:23
Speaker 1: tell you the truth, I'm getting tired of this business
1:50:25
Speaker 1: and want to get out of it for good. I'll
1:50:27
Speaker 1: sell you the whole shooting match. If you want to buy,
1:50:30
Speaker 1: Suppose you stayed at night with my barkeep and see
1:50:32
Speaker 1: what kind of business I do. He agreed, and I
1:50:35
Speaker 1: put two hundred dollars in my pocket and started around town.
1:50:39
Speaker 1: I spent that two hundred dollars to such good purpose
1:50:41
Speaker 1: that that night the hall was crowded to the doors.
1:50:44
Speaker 1: The prospective purchaser looked down with blinking eyes at the
1:50:47
Speaker 1: thought of the profits that must accrue to the owner.
1:50:50
Speaker 1: Would he buy the place? Would he well? Say? He
1:50:55
Speaker 1: was so anxious to buy it that he wanted to
1:50:57
Speaker 1: pass over with the cash. When he saw me counting
1:50:59
Speaker 1: up my takings and small hours of the morning, takings
1:51:02
Speaker 1: were I remember four hundred seventeen dollars. But I told
1:51:06
Speaker 1: him not to be in a hurry, to go home
1:51:08
Speaker 1: and sleep over the proposition and come back the next day.
1:51:12
Speaker 1: After he had gone, the collector came around, took his
1:51:14
Speaker 1: twenty six fifty, and departed on his heels. Came, my man,
1:51:19
Speaker 1: you still want to buy? I asked him, you bet
1:51:22
Speaker 1: your sweet life I want to buy. He replied, you're
1:51:26
Speaker 1: sure you've investigated the proposition fully? I asked him customers
1:51:30
Speaker 1: thought of that four hundred and seventeen dollars taking in
1:51:33
Speaker 1: over the bar the night before? And said he had
1:51:36
Speaker 1: and over the money. Then I said, promptly, the place
1:51:39
Speaker 1: is yours. The next morning he came to me with
1:51:42
Speaker 1: a lugubrious countenance. Well, I greeted him, how much did
1:51:47
Speaker 1: you make last night? Took in ninety six dollars? He answered, sadly, Katie,
1:51:53
Speaker 1: why didn't you tell me about that twenty five dollar tax?
1:51:56
Speaker 1: Tell you about it?
1:51:57
Speaker 2: I repeated, as if astonished, Why didn't I ask you
1:52:01
Speaker 2: if you investigated thing fully? Did I ask you to
1:52:04
Speaker 2: go into the deal blindfold? It wasn't my business to
1:52:07
Speaker 2: tell you about any tax. And with that he had
1:52:11
Speaker 2: to be content.
1:52:13
Speaker 1: I was now out of the dance, all business for good,
1:52:15
Speaker 1: and I looked about for some other and more prosaic
1:52:18
Speaker 1: occupation to indulge in. Thanks to the deal I had
1:52:22
Speaker 1: put through with the confiding stranger, with the ready cash,
1:52:24
Speaker 1: I was pretty well healed so far as money went,
1:52:28
Speaker 1: and all my debts were paid. Finally I decided I
1:52:30
Speaker 1: would go into business again and bought a grocery store
1:52:33
Speaker 1: on Macilla Street, handling out of can tomatoes and salt
1:52:37
Speaker 1: soda crackers. However, speedily got on my nerves. I was
1:52:41
Speaker 1: still a comparatively young man, and my restless spirit longed
1:52:44
Speaker 1: for expression in some new environment. About this time, Paola,
1:52:49
Speaker 1: my contract wife, who was everything that a wife should
1:52:52
Speaker 1: be in my opinion, became a little homesick and spoke
1:52:55
Speaker 1: often of the home she had left. It sactual, a
1:52:58
Speaker 1: small Gulf coast port in Lower California. Accordingly, one morning
1:53:03
Speaker 1: I took it into my head to take her home
1:53:05
Speaker 1: on a visit to see her people, and the thought
1:53:08
Speaker 1: being always father to the action with me. I traded
1:53:11
Speaker 1: my grocery store for a buckboard and team and some money,
1:53:14
Speaker 1: and set forth in this conveyance for Yuma. This was
1:53:17
Speaker 1: a trip not considered so very dangerous except for the
1:53:19
Speaker 1: lack of water, for the Indians along the route were
1:53:22
Speaker 1: mostly peaceable and partly civilized. Only for a short distance
1:53:27
Speaker 1: I Tucson did the Apache hold sozerity, and this is
1:53:30
Speaker 1: only when sufficient Papagoes, whose territory really was could not
1:53:34
Speaker 1: be mustered together and forced to drive them off. The
1:53:37
Speaker 1: Papago Indians hated the Apaches quite as much as the
1:53:40
Speaker 1: white man did, for the Papago lacked the stamina and
1:53:43
Speaker 1: fighting qualities the Apache, and another characteristics, was an entirely
1:53:47
Speaker 1: different type of Indian. I have reason to believe that
1:53:50
Speaker 1: the Apaches were not originally natives of Arizona, but were
1:53:53
Speaker 1: an offshoot of one of the more ferocious tribes further north.
1:53:57
Speaker 1: This I think because, for one thing, the facial characteristic
1:54:00
Speaker 1: of the other Arizona Indians Pimas, Papa, goos, Yumas, Maricopas,
1:54:04
Speaker 1: and others are very similar to each other, but totally
1:54:07
Speaker 1: different from those of the various Apache tribes. As was
1:54:10
Speaker 1: the language they spoke. The Papagoes, Pimas, Humas, Maricopas, and
1:54:15
Speaker 1: other peaceable Indian peoples were of a settled nature and
1:54:17
Speaker 1: had lived in their respective territories for ages before the
1:54:20
Speaker 1: white Man came to the west. The Pache, on the
1:54:23
Speaker 1: other hand, was a nomad, with no definite country to
1:54:26
Speaker 1: call his zone and recognizing no boundary lines of other tribes.
1:54:30
Speaker 1: It was owing to Apache depredations on the Papagoes and
1:54:33
Speaker 1: Pimas that the latter were so willingly enlisted on the
1:54:35
Speaker 1: side of the white Man and the latter's fight for civilization.
1:54:39
Speaker 1: Reaching Yuma without any event to record that I remember,
1:54:42
Speaker 1: we took one of the Colorado river boats to the
1:54:44
Speaker 1: mouth of the Colorado, where transfers were made to the
1:54:47
Speaker 1: deep sea ships plying between the Colorado Gulf and San Francisco.
1:54:52
Speaker 1: One of these steamers, which were credible to the times,
1:54:56
Speaker 1: we took to La Paz. At La Paz, Paola was
1:54:59
Speaker 1: fortunate enough to meet her padrina or godfather, who furnished
1:55:03
Speaker 1: us with mules and horses, with which we reached Saxhall
1:55:07
Speaker 1: Piol's home. There we stayed with her family for some time.
1:55:11
Speaker 1: While staying at Saxall. I went to a f yesterday
1:55:14
Speaker 1: in the Arroyo San Luis, and there began playing kum
1:55:17
Speaker 1: Khan with an old rancher who was accounted one of
1:55:19
Speaker 1: the most wealthy inhabitants of the country. I went from
1:55:23
Speaker 1: him two thousand oranges, five gallons of wine, seventeen buckskins,
1:55:26
Speaker 1: and two hundred halfers. The effers I presented the pail
1:55:29
Speaker 1: and the buckskins I gave to her brothers to make
1:55:31
Speaker 1: leggings out of the wine and oranges. I took the
1:55:34
Speaker 1: LAPAs and sold netting and eat little sum. Thereby. Sixty
1:55:39
Speaker 1: miles from La Pas was El Triumphal, one of the
1:55:41
Speaker 1: best producing silver mines in Lower California, managed by a
1:55:44
Speaker 1: man named Blake Obeying in Impolse. I one day went
1:55:47
Speaker 1: out to the mine and secured a job, working at
1:55:49
Speaker 1: it for some time and among other things, starting a
1:55:52
Speaker 1: small store which was patronized by the company's workmen. And
1:55:56
Speaker 1: on tired this occupation, I returned to socks All Fetch
1:56:00
Speaker 1: and with her return to Yuma or Arizona City, where
1:56:03
Speaker 1: I started a small chicken ranch a few miles up
1:56:05
Speaker 1: the river counties. And wolves killed my poultry, however, and
1:56:09
Speaker 1: sores occasioned by a ranch where it broke out in
1:56:11
Speaker 1: my hands. So I sold a chicken ranch and moved
1:56:14
Speaker 1: to Arizona City, opening a restaurant on the main street.
1:56:17
Speaker 1: In this cafe I med a specialty of pickled feet,
1:56:21
Speaker 1: not pig's feet, but bull's feet, for which delicacy I
1:56:23
Speaker 1: claim original creation. It was some dish too. They sold
1:56:28
Speaker 1: like hot cakes. While I was in Lower California, I
1:56:31
Speaker 1: witnessed a sight that is well worth speaking of. It
1:56:34
Speaker 1: was a Mexican funeral, and the queerest one I ever
1:56:36
Speaker 1: saw or expect to see, though I have read of
1:56:40
Speaker 1: Chinese funerals that perhaps approach it in peculiarity. It was
1:56:44
Speaker 1: while on my way back to socks All from La
1:56:46
Speaker 1: Pazza I met the cortege. Corpse was that of a
1:56:50
Speaker 1: wealthy rancher's wife, and the coffin was strung on two
1:56:52
Speaker 1: long poles borne by four men. Accompanying the coffin alongside
1:56:56
Speaker 1: of those carrying it were about two hundred horsemen. The
1:57:00
Speaker 1: errors kept up a jog trot, never once faltering on
1:57:02
Speaker 1: the way, each horseman taking his turn on the poles.
1:57:06
Speaker 1: When it became a man's turn to act as bearer.
1:57:08
Speaker 1: Nobody told him, but he slipped off his horse, let
1:57:11
Speaker 1: it run wherever he pleased, ran to the coffin, ducked
1:57:13
Speaker 1: under the pole, and started with the others under jog trot,
1:57:16
Speaker 1: while the man whose place he had taken caught his horse.
1:57:19
Speaker 1: Never once in a carry of one hundred and fifty
1:57:21
Speaker 1: miles at that coffin stop, and never once did that
1:57:23
Speaker 1: jog trot falter. The Cortege followers ate at the various
1:57:28
Speaker 1: ranches they passed, nobody thinking of refusing them food. One
1:57:31
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty mile journey to San Luis was necessary
1:57:34
Speaker 1: in order to reach a priest who had bury the
1:57:36
Speaker 1: dead woman. All the dead were treated in the same manner.
1:57:40
Speaker 1: While I was in Yuma, the railroad reached those Palmis
1:57:43
Speaker 1: southern California, and one day I went there with a
1:57:45
Speaker 1: wagon and bought a load of apples, which, with one
1:57:48
Speaker 1: man to accompany me, I hauled all the wid Tucson.
1:57:52
Speaker 1: That wagon load of apples was first fruit to arrive
1:57:54
Speaker 1: in the territory and was held with a claim. I
1:57:57
Speaker 1: sold the lot for one thousand dollars, making the profit
1:57:59
Speaker 1: well over fifty percent. Then with the wagon, I returned
1:58:02
Speaker 1: to Yuma on the way. As I was nearing Yuma,
1:58:05
Speaker 1: I stopped at Kenyon station, which a man named Ed
1:58:08
Speaker 1: Lumley kept. Just as we drove up, an old priest
1:58:11
Speaker 1: came out of Lumbey's house, crying something aloud. We hastened up,
1:58:15
Speaker 1: and he motioned inside, and then we saw poor Lumley dead,
1:58:18
Speaker 1: with both his hands slashed off and his body bearing
1:58:21
Speaker 1: other marks of mutilation. It turned out the two Mexicans
1:58:24
Speaker 1: to whom Lumley had given shelter, had killed him because
1:58:26
Speaker 1: he refused to tell him where he kept his money.
1:58:29
Speaker 1: Mexicans were afterwards caught in California, taken to Maricopa County,
1:58:33
Speaker 1: and there after trial by the usual method, received a
1:58:36
Speaker 1: just penalty for their crime. From Yuma, I moved to Florence, Arizona,
1:58:41
Speaker 1: where I built a dance hall and saloon, which I
1:58:43
Speaker 1: sold almost meatily to an Italian named Gendani. Then I
1:58:48
Speaker 1: moved back to Tucson, my old stamping ground. End of
1:58:52
Speaker 1: chapter seven, Chapter eight, Arizona's Yesterday, the Gian Caddy and
1:59:04
Speaker 1: Basal Wound. This LibriVox according is in the public domain
1:59:09
Speaker 1: recording by Tony Pissante Indian Warfare when strong men fought
1:59:19
Speaker 1: and loved and lost, and might was right throughout the land,
1:59:23
Speaker 1: when life was wine, and wine was life, and God
1:59:26
Speaker 1: looked down endless strife, where murder, lust and hate were rife.
1:59:32
Speaker 1: What footprints time left in the sun womb. In the
1:59:39
Speaker 1: seventies and early eighties, the hostility of the various patche
1:59:43
Speaker 1: Indian tribes was at its height, and there was scarcely
1:59:45
Speaker 1: a man in the territory who had not at some
1:59:47
Speaker 1: time felt the dread of these implacable enemies. I frequent
1:59:51
Speaker 1: raids on the immigrants, wagons, and und freighting outfits. The
1:59:54
Speaker 1: Indians had succeeded in arming themselves fairly successfully with the
1:59:58
Speaker 1: rifle of the white man, and they kept themselves in
2:00:01
Speaker 1: ammunition by raids on lonely ranches and by jumping or
2:00:04
Speaker 1: ambushing prospectors and loan travelers. If a man was outnumbered
2:00:09
Speaker 1: by apaches, he often shot himself, for he knew that
2:00:12
Speaker 1: if captured, he would probably be tortured by one of
2:00:15
Speaker 1: the fiendish methods made use of by these Indians. If
2:00:19
Speaker 1: he had a woman with him, it was an act
2:00:21
Speaker 1: of kindness to shoot her too, for to her also,
2:00:24
Speaker 1: even if the element of torture were absent captivity with
2:00:27
Speaker 1: the Indians would invariably be an even sadder fate. Sometimes
2:00:32
Speaker 1: bands of whites would take the place of the soldiers
2:00:35
Speaker 1: and revenge themselves on Apache raiders. There was the raid
2:00:39
Speaker 1: on the Wooster Ranch, for instance. This ranch was near
2:00:41
Speaker 1: two Back. Wooster lived alone on the ranch with his
2:00:44
Speaker 1: wife and one hired man. One morning, Apaches swooped down
2:00:48
Speaker 1: on the place, killed Wooster and carried off his wife.
2:00:52
Speaker 1: As she has never been heard of since, it has
2:00:54
Speaker 1: always been supposed that she was killed. This outrage resulted
2:00:58
Speaker 1: in the famous Camp Grant Man, the tale of which
2:01:01
Speaker 1: echoed all over the world, together with the indignant protests
2:01:04
Speaker 1: from centers of culture in the East that the whites
2:01:07
Speaker 1: of Arizona were more savage than the savages themselves. I
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Speaker 1: leave it to the reader to judge whether this was
2:01:14
Speaker 1: a fact. The Wooster raid and slaughter was merely the
2:01:17
Speaker 1: culminating tragedy of a series of murders, robberies, and depredations
2:01:21
Speaker 1: carried on by the Apaches for years. Soldiers would follow
2:01:25
Speaker 1: the raiders, kill a few of them in retaliation, and
2:01:28
Speaker 1: a few days later another outrage would be perpetrated. The
2:01:31
Speaker 1: Apaches were absolutely fearless in the warfare they carried on
2:01:34
Speaker 1: for possession of what they rightfully or wrongly considered their
2:01:38
Speaker 1: invaded territory. The Apache, with the greatest number of murders
2:01:42
Speaker 1: to his name, was most highly thought of by his tribe.
2:01:46
Speaker 1: When the Wooster raid occurred. I was in Tucson. Everybody
2:01:49
Speaker 1: in Tucson you Wooster and liked him. There was general
2:01:53
Speaker 1: mourning and cry for instant revenge when his murder was
2:01:55
Speaker 1: heard of. For a long time, it had been believed
2:01:58
Speaker 1: that the Indians wintering on the government reservation to Camp
2:02:01
Speaker 1: Grant at the expense of Uncle Sam were the authors
2:02:04
Speaker 1: of the numerous raids in the vicinity of Tucson, though
2:02:07
Speaker 1: until that time it had been hard to convince the
2:02:09
Speaker 1: authorities that such was the case. This time, however, it
2:02:13
Speaker 1: became obvious that something had to be done. The white
2:02:16
Speaker 1: Man of Tucson held a meeting at which I was present.
2:02:20
Speaker 1: Sidney R. DeLong, first Mayor of Tucson, was also there.
2:02:24
Speaker 1: After the meaning had been called order, DeLong rose and said, boys,
2:02:29
Speaker 1: this thing has got to be stopped. The military won't
2:02:32
Speaker 1: believe us when we tell them that the charity to
2:02:34
Speaker 1: the Indians is our undoing that the government's wards are
2:02:37
Speaker 1: a pack of murderers and cattle thieves. What shall we do?
2:02:42
Speaker 1: Let the military go hang and the government too, growled
2:02:45
Speaker 1: one man, Old Bill Lory, a considerable figure in the
2:02:48
Speaker 1: life of early Tucson and an ex Confederate soldier, meaning applauded.
2:02:53
Speaker 1: We can do what the soldiers want. I said, right,
2:02:57
Speaker 1: said oury savagely. Let's give these devils a taste of
2:03:02
Speaker 1: their own medicine. Maybe after a few dozen 'em are killed,
2:03:05
Speaker 1: they'll learn some respect for the white man. Nobody vetoed
2:03:09
Speaker 1: this suggestion. The following day, six white men, myself long
2:03:14
Speaker 1: and fierce Ottle Bill Orry among them, rode out of
2:03:17
Speaker 1: Tucson by for two back with us. We had three
2:03:19
Speaker 1: Papago Indian trailers arrived at the Wooster Ranch. The Papagoes
2:03:23
Speaker 1: were set to work and followed a trail that led
2:03:25
Speaker 1: plain as daylight to the evening camp at Fort Grant.
2:03:28
Speaker 1: A cry escaped all of us. At disjustification of our suspicions.
2:03:33
Speaker 1: That settles it, ground Hourlory between his set teeth. It's
2:03:37
Speaker 1: demenjuns are us, and it won't be us. We returned
2:03:41
Speaker 1: to Tucson, rounded up a party consisting of about fifty Papagos,
2:03:45
Speaker 1: forty five Mexicans, and ourselves, and set out for Camp Grant.
2:03:50
Speaker 1: We reached the ford at break the day, or just before,
2:03:53
Speaker 1: and before the star Apaches could fully awaken to what
2:03:56
Speaker 1: was happening, or the nearby soldiers gathered their wits together.
2:03:59
Speaker 1: He the seven our ravpie Apaches had been slain as
2:04:02
Speaker 1: they lay. The Papagos accounted for most of the dead,
2:04:06
Speaker 1: but we six white men and our Mexican friends did
2:04:08
Speaker 1: our part. It was bloody work, but it was justice,
2:04:12
Speaker 1: and on the frontier then the whites made their own justice.
2:04:16
Speaker 1: All of us were arrested as a matter of course,
2:04:19
Speaker 1: and when word reached General Sherman at Washington from the
2:04:21
Speaker 1: commander of the military forces at Fort Grant, an order
2:04:25
Speaker 1: was issued that all of us were to be tried
2:04:26
Speaker 1: for murder. We suffered no qualms, for we knew that
2:04:30
Speaker 1: according to frontiers standards, what we had done was right
2:04:33
Speaker 1: and would inevitably have been done some time or another
2:04:36
Speaker 1: by somebody. We were tried and judge Titus's territorial court,
2:04:42
Speaker 1: but to the dismay of the military and General Sherman,
2:04:45
Speaker 1: who of course knew nothing of events that had proceeded
2:04:47
Speaker 1: to massacre. Not a man in the jury could be
2:04:50
Speaker 1: found who would hang us. Territory was searched for citizens
2:04:53
Speaker 1: impartial enough to adjudge the slaying of a hostile Apache
2:04:56
Speaker 1: as murder, but none could be found. Trial turned out
2:05:00
Speaker 1: out of farce, and we were all acquitted to receive
2:05:02
Speaker 1: the greatest demonstration outside the courtroom that man on trial
2:05:05
Speaker 1: for their lives ever received in Arizona. I think one
2:05:09
Speaker 1: thing that made our acquittal more than certain was the
2:05:11
Speaker 1: fact brought out at the trial that the dress of
2:05:14
Speaker 1: Missus Wooster and a pair of mooxins belonging to her
2:05:17
Speaker 1: husband were found on the bodies of Indians whom we killed.
2:05:20
Speaker 1: Lieutenant Whitman, who was in command at Fort Grant, and
2:05:23
Speaker 1: on whom the responsibility for the conduct of the Indians
2:05:26
Speaker 1: wintering there chiefly rested, was soon relieved from duty and
2:05:29
Speaker 1: transferred to another post. General George Crook arrived to take
2:05:33
Speaker 1: his place. In eighteen seventy one. Massacre had occurred on
2:05:36
Speaker 1: the last day of April of that year. Other raids occurred.
2:05:41
Speaker 1: Al Peck, an old and valued friend of mine, had
2:05:44
Speaker 1: several experiences with the Apaches, were culminated in the Peck
2:05:47
Speaker 1: grade of April twenty seventh, eighteen eighty six, when Apaches
2:05:51
Speaker 1: jumped his ranch, killed his wife and a man named
2:05:53
Speaker 1: Charles Owens, and carried off Peck's niece. Apparently satisfied with this,
2:05:58
Speaker 1: they turned Peck loose after burning ranch house. The unfortunate
2:06:02
Speaker 1: man's step niece was found some six weeks later by
2:06:05
Speaker 1: Mexican cowpunchers and the Cocoa Pie Mountains in Old Mexico.
2:06:09
Speaker 1: The famous massacre of the Sam Man Diego freight teams
2:06:12
Speaker 1: and instruction of his outfit at Cedar Springs between Fort
2:06:15
Speaker 1: Thomas and Wilcox was witnessed by Charles Beck, another friend
2:06:18
Speaker 1: of mine. Beck had come in with a quantity of
2:06:21
Speaker 1: fruit and was unloading it when he heard a fuseil
2:06:23
Speaker 1: out of shots around a bend in the road. A
2:06:25
Speaker 1: moment later, a boy came by a helter skelter on
2:06:27
Speaker 1: a horse Apaches. He g asked the boy and rode on.
2:06:32
Speaker 1: Beck waited to hear no more. He knew that to
2:06:34
Speaker 1: attack one of San Diego's outfits, there must be at
2:06:36
Speaker 1: least a hundred Indians in the neighborhood. Un Hitching his horse,
2:06:40
Speaker 1: he jumped on its back and rode for dear life
2:06:42
Speaker 1: in the direction of Eureka Springs. Indians sighted him as
2:06:45
Speaker 1: he swept into the open and followed, firing as they
2:06:48
Speaker 1: rode my leck. However, and the fact that his horse
2:06:51
Speaker 1: was fresher than those of his pursuers, Beck got safely away.
2:06:55
Speaker 1: Thirteen men were killed at this Cedar Springs massacre, and
2:06:58
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars worth the freight was carried off or destroyed.
2:07:02
Speaker 1: Raid was unexpected owing to the fact that the San
2:07:04
Speaker 1: man Diego brothers had contracts with the government and the
2:07:07
Speaker 1: stuff in their outfit was intended for the very Indians
2:07:09
Speaker 1: concerned in Niamboscade. One of the San man Diegos was
2:07:13
Speaker 1: slain at this massacre. Then there was the Tumaka Coori
2:07:17
Speaker 1: raid at Barnett's ranch in at Tumacacori Mountains, when Charlie
2:07:20
Speaker 1: Murray and Tom Shaw were killed. Old Man Frenchie as
2:07:23
Speaker 1: he was called, suffered the severe loss of his freight
2:07:26
Speaker 1: in teams when the Indians burned him up across the Siega.
2:07:29
Speaker 1: Many other raids occurred, particularly as of which are not
2:07:32
Speaker 1: to hand, but those I have related will serve as
2:07:35
Speaker 1: samples of the work of the Indians and will show
2:07:37
Speaker 1: just how it was the Apaches gained the name of
2:07:40
Speaker 1: they did, of being veritable fiends in human form. After
2:07:45
Speaker 1: the expiration of my contract with Ola Ortega, I remained
2:07:49
Speaker 1: in a state of single blessedness for some time and
2:07:52
Speaker 1: then married Gregoria Sosa in the summer of eighteen seventy nine.
2:07:56
Speaker 1: Gregoria rewarded me with one child, a boy, who is
2:08:00
Speaker 1: now living in the Gallis. In December twenty third, eighteen
2:08:03
Speaker 1: eighty nine, Gregoria died, and in October eighteen ninety I
2:08:07
Speaker 1: married my present wife, whose maiden name was Dona pas Paderes,
2:08:11
Speaker 1: and who belongs to an old line of Spanish aristocracy
2:08:13
Speaker 1: in Mexico. We are now living together in the peace
2:08:17
Speaker 1: and contentment of old age, well occupied in bringing up
2:08:19
Speaker 1: and providing for our family of two children, Mary who
2:08:22
Speaker 1: will be twenty years old February twenty fifth, nineteen fifteen,
2:08:25
Speaker 1: and Charlie, who will be sixteen on the same date.
2:08:28
Speaker 1: With our children, by the grace of God, had been
2:08:29
Speaker 1: spared us after severe illnesses, to make hundreds of implacable enemies.
2:08:34
Speaker 1: That one stroke is something any man would very naturally
2:08:37
Speaker 1: hesitate to do, but I did just that. It's about
2:08:40
Speaker 1: a year after I commenced working for D. A. Sandford,
2:08:42
Speaker 1: one of the biggest ranchers between the railroad and the border.
2:08:46
Speaker 1: The explanation of this lies in one word, sheep. If
2:08:49
Speaker 1: there was one man whom cattleman hated with a fierce
2:08:51
Speaker 1: and reasoning hatred, it was the man who ran sheep
2:08:53
Speaker 1: over the open range, a proceeding perfectly legal, but one
2:08:57
Speaker 1: which threatened the grazing of cattle inasmuch as where the
2:08:59
Speaker 1: sheep had grazed, it was impossible for the cattle to
2:09:02
Speaker 1: feed for some weeks or until the grass had time
2:09:04
Speaker 1: to grow again. Sheep crop almost to the ground and
2:09:08
Speaker 1: feeding great herds close together, and the range after a
2:09:10
Speaker 1: herd of sheep has passed over it looks as if
2:09:12
Speaker 1: somebody had gone over it with a lawnmower. In eighteen
2:09:16
Speaker 1: eighty one I closed out the old Sandford ranch stock
2:09:18
Speaker 1: and was informed by my employer that he had foreclosed
2:09:21
Speaker 1: a mortgage and thirteen thousand had a sheep owned by Tully,
2:09:25
Speaker 1: Ochoa and de Long of Tucson. This firm was the
2:09:28
Speaker 1: biggest at that time in the territory, and the DeLong
2:09:31
Speaker 1: of the company was one of the six men who
2:09:33
Speaker 1: led the Papagoes and the Camp Grant massacre. He died
2:09:35
Speaker 1: in Tucson recently, and I am now the only white
2:09:38
Speaker 1: survivor of that occurrence. Tully Ocho and the Long were
2:09:42
Speaker 1: forced out of business by the coming of the railroad
2:09:44
Speaker 1: in eighteen eighty, which cheapened things so much that the
2:09:47
Speaker 1: large stock held by the company was sold at prices
2:09:49
Speaker 1: below what it had cost, necessitating bankruptcy. I was not
2:09:53
Speaker 1: surprised to hear that Sandford intended to earn sheep, though
2:09:57
Speaker 1: I will admit that the information was scarcely welcome. Sheep, however,
2:10:01
Speaker 1: at that time, were much scarcer than cattle, and fetched
2:10:04
Speaker 1: consequently much higher prices. My employer, D. A. Sanford, who
2:10:08
Speaker 1: now lives in Washington, d c. Was one of the
2:10:10
Speaker 1: shrewdest business men in the territory, and was as well
2:10:13
Speaker 1: one of the best natured of men. His business acumen
2:10:16
Speaker 1: is testified to by the fact that he is now
2:10:19
Speaker 1: sufficiently wealthy to count his pile in the seven figures.
2:10:24
Speaker 1: Mister Sandford's wishes being my own in the matter of course,
2:10:27
Speaker 1: I did as I was told, closed out the cattle stock,
2:10:29
Speaker 1: and set the sheep grazing on the range. Cattlemen were
2:10:32
Speaker 1: angry and sent me an ultimatum to the effect that
2:10:34
Speaker 1: if the sheep were not at once taken off the grass,
2:10:37
Speaker 1: there would be trouble. I told them, as Sandford was
2:10:41
Speaker 1: my boss, not them, that I would take his orders
2:10:43
Speaker 1: and nobody else's until he told me to take the
2:10:45
Speaker 1: sheep off the range, they'd stay precisely where they were.
2:10:49
Speaker 1: My reply angered the cattleman more, and before long I
2:10:52
Speaker 1: became subject to many annoyances. Sheep, profound dead stock, was
2:10:57
Speaker 1: driven off my ranch. Hands were shot at several times.
2:11:00
Speaker 1: I myself narrowly escaped death at the hands of enraged cattlemen.
2:11:05
Speaker 1: I determined not to give in until I received orders
2:11:07
Speaker 1: to that effect from mister Sandford. But I will admit
2:11:10
Speaker 1: that it was with a feeling of distinct relief that
2:11:12
Speaker 1: I hailed those orders when they came three years later.
2:11:16
Speaker 1: For one thing, before the sheep business came up, most
2:11:18
Speaker 1: of the cattlemen who were now my enemies had been
2:11:20
Speaker 1: my close friends and hurt me to lose their esteem.
2:11:24
Speaker 1: I am glad to say, however, that most of these
2:11:26
Speaker 1: cattlemen and cowboys who when I ran sheep would cheerfully
2:11:29
Speaker 1: have been responsible for my funeral. Are my very good
2:11:32
Speaker 1: friends at the present time, and I trust they will
2:11:34
Speaker 1: always remain so. Most of them are good fellows, and
2:11:37
Speaker 1: I have always admitted that their side had the best argument.
2:11:41
Speaker 1: In spite of the opposition of the cattleman. I made
2:11:44
Speaker 1: the sheep business a paying one for mister Sandford, clearing
2:11:46
Speaker 1: about seventeen thousand at the end of three years. When
2:11:50
Speaker 1: that period had elapsed, I had brought shearers to Sanford
2:11:53
Speaker 1: Station to shear the sheep, but was stopped in my
2:11:55
Speaker 1: attention with the news that Sandford had sold a lot
2:11:58
Speaker 1: to push and Zellweger of Tucsons. I paid off the
2:12:01
Speaker 1: men I hired, satisfied them, and thus closed my last
2:12:05
Speaker 1: deal in the sheep business. One of the men, he
2:12:09
Speaker 1: SEUs Maybo, I heard go to the rodeo with me,
2:12:12
Speaker 1: while the Chinese gardener heard another named Fernando. Then occurred
2:12:16
Speaker 1: that curious succession of fatalities among the Chinamen in the
2:12:20
Speaker 1: neighborhood that puzzled us all for years, and ended by
2:12:23
Speaker 1: its being impossible to obtain a chinaman to fill the
2:12:26
Speaker 1: last man's place. End of chapter eight, Chapter nine, Arizona's
2:12:39
Speaker 1: Yesterday by John Katy and base a Wound. His LibriVox
2:12:43
Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. Recording by Tony Pissante,
2:12:50
Speaker 1: Deputy Sheriff, cattleman and farmer. You kin have yo turn
2:12:56
Speaker 1: us on sets. He never painted one like the Saint
2:13:00
Speaker 1: Reina Mountains at the setting of the sun. Yo, ken
2:13:05
Speaker 1: of your eastern corn fields, with the crops that never
2:13:08
Speaker 1: change me. I've all Arizona and best of all the
2:13:13
Speaker 1: range wound. About this time, Sheriff Bob Paul reigned in
2:13:21
Speaker 1: Tucson and made me one of his deputies. I had
2:13:24
Speaker 1: numerous adventures in that capacity, but remember only one as
2:13:27
Speaker 1: being worth recording. Here. One of the toughest characters in
2:13:30
Speaker 1: the West at that time, a man feared throughout the
2:13:33
Speaker 1: territory was Pat Cannon. He had a score of killings
2:13:36
Speaker 1: to his credit. Finally, when Paul became sheriff, a warrant
2:13:39
Speaker 1: was issued for his arrest on charge of murder. After
2:13:42
Speaker 1: he had to warrant, Paul came to me Katy. He said,
2:13:46
Speaker 1: you know Pat Cannon, don't you. I worked with him.
2:13:49
Speaker 1: Once I answered, well, returned Paul, here's a warrant for
2:13:54
Speaker 1: his arrest on a murder charge go get em. I
2:13:57
Speaker 1: obtain to carry all an Italian boy his driver in
2:14:00
Speaker 1: Tucson and started for Camp Grant. Right there, I was
2:14:04
Speaker 1: informed that I was believed Ken was at Smithy's wood
2:14:07
Speaker 1: camp several miles away. We went on Smithy's wood camp.
2:14:12
Speaker 1: Sure enough, Pat was there, very much so. He was
2:14:15
Speaker 1: the first man I spotted as I drove into the camp.
2:14:18
Speaker 1: Kennon was sitting at the door of his shack, two
2:14:20
Speaker 1: revolvers belted on him, and his rifle standing up by
2:14:23
Speaker 1: the door at his side within easy reach. I knew
2:14:27
Speaker 1: that Pat didn't know that I was a deputy, so
2:14:29
Speaker 1: I drove right up Oho. I called, how's the chance
2:14:33
Speaker 1: for a game of poker? Pretty good? He returned amiably,
2:14:38
Speaker 1: Smithvie'll be in in a few moments. John, stick around.
2:14:41
Speaker 1: We have a game every night. Sure, I responded and descended.
2:14:46
Speaker 1: As I did so, I drew my six shooter and
2:14:48
Speaker 1: rolled around. I mean the weapon at him point blank.
2:14:51
Speaker 1: Hands up, Pat, you son of a gun, I said,
2:14:53
Speaker 1: and I guess I grinned you're my prisoner. I had
2:14:58
Speaker 1: told the Italian boy what to do before hand, and
2:15:00
Speaker 1: he now gave me the steel bracelets, which I snapped
2:15:03
Speaker 1: on ken, whose face bore an expression seemingly a mixture
2:15:06
Speaker 1: of intense astonishment and disgust. Finally, when I had him
2:15:10
Speaker 1: safely in the carryall, he spat out a huge chew
2:15:12
Speaker 1: of tobacco and swore. He said nothing to me for
2:15:16
Speaker 1: a while, and then he remarked, in an injured way, well, Johnny,
2:15:20
Speaker 1: I sure would never have thought it of you. He
2:15:23
Speaker 1: said nothing more except to ask me to twist him
2:15:26
Speaker 1: a cigarette or two. And when we reached Tucson, I
2:15:28
Speaker 1: turned him over safely to Sheriff Paul. You who read
2:15:33
Speaker 1: this in your stuffy city room or crowded subway seat, imagine,
2:15:36
Speaker 1: if you can, the following scene above, the perfect, gall
2:15:39
Speaker 1: embracing blue of the Arizona sky set flaming in the
2:15:42
Speaker 1: middle of it, the sun a glorious blazing orb whose
2:15:45
Speaker 1: beoty one may dare to gaze upon only through smoke glasses.
2:15:50
Speaker 1: Beneath the range, which far from being a desert, is
2:15:53
Speaker 1: covered with a gruff of grass which grows thicker and
2:15:56
Speaker 1: greener as the river's banks are reached. All around Arizona,
2:16:00
Speaker 1: the painted hills looking as though somebody had carefully swept
2:16:03
Speaker 1: them early in the morning with the broom, the valleys
2:16:05
Speaker 1: studded with ski trees and grease woods, and dotted here
2:16:08
Speaker 1: and there with brown specks, which even the un in
2:16:11
Speaker 1: the shade will know. Our cattle. And the river, one
2:16:14
Speaker 1: of Arizona's minor streams, a few yards across and only
2:16:17
Speaker 1: a couple of feet deep, with swift, rushing pebble strewn
2:16:20
Speaker 1: and clear as crystal. Last, but not least, a heterogeneous
2:16:24
Speaker 1: mob of cowboys and the carrols, with their horses, champing
2:16:27
Speaker 1: at the bit and eager to be off on their work.
2:16:30
Speaker 1: In the foreground, a rough, unpainted corral were our more ponies,
2:16:33
Speaker 1: wicked looking, intelligent little beggars, but quick turning as though
2:16:37
Speaker 1: they owned but two legs instead of four, and hence
2:16:40
Speaker 1: priceless for the work of the round them. In the distance,
2:16:43
Speaker 1: some of them quietly inempudently grazing quite close in hand,
2:16:48
Speaker 1: are the cattle the object of the days gathering. Cowboys
2:16:52
Speaker 1: from perhaps a dozen or more ranches are gathered here,
2:16:54
Speaker 1: for this is the commencement of the rodeo, the round
2:16:57
Speaker 1: up of cattle that takes place semiannually. Even ranches whose
2:17:01
Speaker 1: cattle are not grazed on this particular range have representatives here,
2:17:05
Speaker 1: for often there are strays with brands that show them
2:17:07
Speaker 1: to have traveled many scores of miles. The business of
2:17:10
Speaker 1: the cowboys is to round up and crowl the cattle
2:17:12
Speaker 1: and pick out their own brands from the herd they
2:17:15
Speaker 1: didn't see. The unbranded cast belonging to the cows of
2:17:17
Speaker 1: their brand are properly marked with the hot iron and
2:17:20
Speaker 1: with the ear slit, check up the number of earlings
2:17:23
Speaker 1: for the benefit of their employers, and take charge of
2:17:25
Speaker 1: such cattle. It is considered advisable to drive back to
2:17:28
Speaker 1: the home ranch. So much sentimental nonsense has been talked
2:17:33
Speaker 1: of the cruelty of branding and slitting caws. That is
2:17:35
Speaker 1: worth while here perhaps to state positivity that the branding
2:17:39
Speaker 1: irons do not penetrate the skin, and serve simply the
2:17:41
Speaker 1: burned rates of the hair, so that the bald marks
2:17:44
Speaker 1: will show to which ranch the calf belongs. There is
2:17:47
Speaker 1: little pain to the calf attached to the operation, and
2:17:49
Speaker 1: one rarely, if ever, even sees a calf liking its
2:17:53
Speaker 1: brand after it has been applied. And as is well
2:17:56
Speaker 1: known to cow's remedy for an injury like that of
2:17:59
Speaker 1: a dog is always de licked as to the ear
2:18:02
Speaker 1: slitting used by most ranches as a check on their brands,
2:18:05
Speaker 1: it may be said that if the human ear is
2:18:07
Speaker 1: somewhat callous to pain, as it is, the cow's ear
2:18:10
Speaker 1: is even more so. One may slice a cow's ear
2:18:13
Speaker 1: in half in a certain way, and she will feel
2:18:15
Speaker 1: only slight pain, not sufficient to make her give voice.
2:18:19
Speaker 1: The sitting of a cow's ear draws very little blood.
2:18:22
Speaker 1: While I am on the subject, it was amusing to
2:18:24
Speaker 1: note the unbounded astonishment of the cattleman of Arizona a
2:18:28
Speaker 1: few years ago when some altruistic society of Boston came
2:18:32
Speaker 1: for with a brilliant idea that was to abolish the
2:18:34
Speaker 1: cruelty of branding cows entirely. What was the idea? Oh,
2:18:40
Speaker 1: they were going to hang a collar around the cow's
2:18:42
Speaker 1: neck with a brass tag on it to tell the
2:18:44
Speaker 1: name of the owner. Or if that wasn't feasible, they
2:18:48
Speaker 1: thought that a simple ring and tag put through the
2:18:50
Speaker 1: cow's eir lobe would prove eminently satisfactory. The feelings of
2:18:55
Speaker 1: the cowboys, when told that they would be required to
2:18:57
Speaker 1: dismount from their horses, walk up to each cow, turned
2:19:00
Speaker 1: and politely examined. Her tag, perhaps with the aid of spectacles,
2:19:04
Speaker 1: may be better imagined than described. It is sufficient to
2:19:07
Speaker 1: say that the New England Society's idea never got further
2:19:10
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts, if it was indeed used there, which is doubtful.
2:19:15
Speaker 1: The brand is absolutely necessary as long as there is
2:19:17
Speaker 1: an open range, and the abolishment of the open range
2:19:19
Speaker 1: will mean the abandonment of the cow ranch. At the
2:19:22
Speaker 1: time i am speaking of, the whole territory of Arizona
2:19:25
Speaker 1: was one vast open range, over the grassy portions of
2:19:28
Speaker 1: which cattle belonging to hundreds of different ranches from the will.
2:19:32
Speaker 1: Most of the big ranches employed a few cowboys the
2:19:35
Speaker 1: year round to keep the fences in repair and prevent
2:19:37
Speaker 1: cows from straying too far from the home range. The
2:19:40
Speaker 1: home range was generally anywhere within twenty mile radius of
2:19:43
Speaker 1: the ranch house. Year's slate was first found necessary because
2:19:47
Speaker 1: of the activities of the wrestlers. There were two kinds
2:19:50
Speaker 1: of these gentry, the kind that owned the ranches and
2:19:52
Speaker 1: passed themselves off as honest ranchers, and the open out laws,
2:19:56
Speaker 1: who drove off cattle by first stampeding them in the
2:19:59
Speaker 1: Indian man rushed them across the international line, and then
2:20:02
Speaker 1: sold them to none too scrupulous Mexican ranchers. Of the two,
2:20:06
Speaker 1: it is difficult to say which was the most dangerous
2:20:09
Speaker 1: or the most reviled by the honest cattlemen. The ranches
2:20:12
Speaker 1: within twenty or thirty miles of the border perhaps suffered
2:20:15
Speaker 1: more from the stampeders than from the small ranchers, But
2:20:19
Speaker 1: those on the northern ranges had constantly to cope with
2:20:21
Speaker 1: the activities of dishonest cattlemen, who on considerably more calves
2:20:25
Speaker 1: than they had cows. As a rule, the difficulty was
2:20:29
Speaker 1: to prove that these calves had been stolen. It was
2:20:31
Speaker 1: no difficult thing to steal cattle successfully, providing the rustler
2:20:35
Speaker 1: exercised ordinary caution, and that the most in favor among
2:20:38
Speaker 1: the wrestlers was as follows. Some weeks, the wrestler would
2:20:42
Speaker 1: ride a range, noting where cows were unbranded calves were grazing. Then,
2:20:46
Speaker 1: when he had ascertained that no cowboys from neighboring ranches
2:20:49
Speaker 1: were riding that way, he would drive these cows in
2:20:52
Speaker 1: their calves into one of the secluded and natural corrals
2:20:55
Speaker 1: from which the range bounds roped calves, ran them with
2:20:59
Speaker 1: his own brand, hobble, and sometimes killed the mother cows
2:21:02
Speaker 1: to prevent them from following their offspring and drive the
2:21:05
Speaker 1: ladder to his home corral, where in the course of
2:21:07
Speaker 1: a few weeks they would forget their mothers and be
2:21:09
Speaker 1: successfully weaned. They would then be turned out to graze
2:21:12
Speaker 1: under range. Sometimes, when the rustler did not kill the
2:21:16
Speaker 1: mother cow, the calf proved not to have been successfully
2:21:19
Speaker 1: weaned and went back to its mother, the worst possible
2:21:22
Speaker 1: advertisement of the wrestler's dirty work. Generally, therefore, the mother
2:21:26
Speaker 1: cow was killed and little trace left to the crime,
2:21:29
Speaker 1: for the coyotes speedily clean flesh branding off from the
2:21:32
Speaker 1: bones of the slain animal. The motto of most of
2:21:35
Speaker 1: these rustlers was the dead cow tells no tales. Another
2:21:39
Speaker 1: method of the wrestlers was to adopt brand, much like
2:21:42
Speaker 1: to have a big ranch near by and to overbrand
2:21:45
Speaker 1: the cattle. For instance, a big ranch with thousands of
2:21:47
Speaker 1: cattle owns the brand cross bar. An X rustler adopts
2:21:52
Speaker 1: the brand cross l x L and by the addition
2:21:55
Speaker 1: of a vertical mark to the bar and the first
2:21:57
Speaker 1: brand completely changed. Brand was always a puzzle for the
2:22:01
Speaker 1: ranchers to find brands that would not be easily changed.
2:22:04
Speaker 1: Wrestlers engaged in this work invariably took grave chances, For
2:22:07
Speaker 1: a good puncher could tell had changed brand in an instant.
2:22:10
Speaker 1: Anne often knew every cow belonging to his ranch by
2:22:12
Speaker 1: sight without looking at the brand. When one of these
2:22:15
Speaker 1: expert cowboys found a suspicious brand, he lost no time
2:22:18
Speaker 1: hunting up proof. And if he found that there had
2:22:21
Speaker 1: actually been dirty work, they'restler responsible if wise would skip
2:22:24
Speaker 1: the country without leaving a note of his destination. For
2:22:27
Speaker 1: in the days of which I speak, the penalty for
2:22:29
Speaker 1: cow stealing was almost always deaf, except when the sheriff
2:22:33
Speaker 1: happened to be on the spot. Since the sheriff was
2:22:35
Speaker 1: invariably hard and sold a cattleman himself, he generally took
2:22:38
Speaker 1: care that he wasn't anywhere in the neighborhood when a
2:22:41
Speaker 1: cattle thief met as just deserts. Even now, this rule
2:22:44
Speaker 1: holds effect in cattlelands. Only two years ago, a prominent
2:22:47
Speaker 1: rancher in this country the Senoia Range, shot and killed
2:22:51
Speaker 1: a Mexican with whom a partner had been caught red
2:22:53
Speaker 1: handed in the act of stealing cattle. With the gradual
2:22:57
Speaker 1: disappearance of the open range cattle stealing has practiced, although
2:23:00
Speaker 1: one still hears at times of cases of the kind
2:23:03
Speaker 1: isolated but bearing traces of the same old methods. Stampeding
2:23:07
Speaker 1: is of course now done away with. During the years
2:23:11
Speaker 1: I worked for D. A. Sanford, I had more or
2:23:13
Speaker 1: less trouble all the time with cattle thieves, but succeeded
2:23:16
Speaker 1: fairly well in either detecting the guilty ones or in
2:23:18
Speaker 1: getting back to stolen cattle. I meet it out swift
2:23:22
Speaker 1: and sure justice to rustlers, and before long it became
2:23:24
Speaker 1: rumored around that it was wise to let cattle with
2:23:27
Speaker 1: the D. S brand alone. The Sanford brand was changed
2:23:31
Speaker 1: three times. The D S brand I sold to the
2:23:33
Speaker 1: Veil Interests for Sanford, and the Sanford brand was changed
2:23:36
Speaker 1: to the Dipper, which, afterwards, following the closing out of
2:23:39
Speaker 1: the Sanford stock, was again altered to the ninety seven brand.
2:23:43
Speaker 1: Cattle with the ninety seven brand on them still roamed
2:23:45
Speaker 1: to range about the Sonoida. It was too rodeo, similar
2:23:50
Speaker 1: to the one which I have attempted to describe. That
2:23:52
Speaker 1: HAYESOUSS Malbot and I had departed following an incident of
2:23:55
Speaker 1: the selling of the sheep. We were gone a week.
2:23:58
Speaker 1: When we returned, I put up my horse and was
2:24:00
Speaker 1: seeing that he had some fee, when a shout from Hayesus,
2:24:02
Speaker 1: whom I had sent to find a Chinese gardener to
2:24:04
Speaker 1: tell him we need something neat came to my ears.
2:24:07
Speaker 1: We hey, Senor Caddy, Heyesus was crying. Alcino Monte hurried
2:24:12
Speaker 1: down in the field where Mabot stood and found him
2:24:14
Speaker 1: gazing at the Chinaman, who was lying face downward near
2:24:17
Speaker 1: the fence, quite dead. By the smelling general aon, I
2:24:21
Speaker 1: reckon he had been dead some three days. I told
2:24:24
Speaker 1: may about stay with him, and, jumping out my horse,
2:24:26
Speaker 1: rode to Critain and where I obtained a coroner and
2:24:28
Speaker 1: jury that would sit under Chinaman's death. The next morning,
2:24:32
Speaker 1: the jury found that he had been killed by some
2:24:34
Speaker 1: person or person's unknown, and let it go at that.
2:24:38
Speaker 1: Two weeks later I had occasion to go to Tucson, and,
2:24:41
Speaker 1: untying my horse outside the Italian Brothers saloon, noticed a
2:24:44
Speaker 1: man I thought looked from her sitting on the bench outside.
2:24:47
Speaker 1: As I came up, he pulled his hat over his
2:24:49
Speaker 1: face so that I could not see it. I went
2:24:52
Speaker 1: inside order to drink and looked in the mirror. It
2:24:54
Speaker 1: gave a perfect reflection of a man outside, and I
2:24:57
Speaker 1: saw that he was the Mexican Fernando, whom the Chinese
2:25:00
Speaker 1: the gardener had hired when I had engaged Maybot. I
2:25:03
Speaker 1: had my suspicions right then as to who had killed
2:25:06
Speaker 1: the chentleman, but having nothing by which to prove them,
2:25:09
Speaker 1: I was forced to let the matter drop. Two or
2:25:12
Speaker 1: three years after this I hired as Vcaro a Mexican
2:25:14
Speaker 1: name Nclecto, who, after a year, quit work and went
2:25:18
Speaker 1: for a visit to the Galis. Neclecto bought his provisions
2:25:22
Speaker 1: from the Chinaman who kept the store I had built
2:25:24
Speaker 1: on the ranch, and so as we were responsible for
2:25:26
Speaker 1: the debt, Bob Bloxton, son in law of Sanford, came
2:25:30
Speaker 1: to pay the Mexican off. He did so in the
2:25:32
Speaker 1: Chinaman's store. The next morning Neclecto company bloxed in to
2:25:36
Speaker 1: the train, and looking back, Bob saw the Mexican and
2:25:38
Speaker 1: another man ride off in the direction of the ranch.
2:25:41
Speaker 1: After it happened, Neclecto owned up that he had been
2:25:44
Speaker 1: in the Chinaman's that night drinking, but insisted that he
2:25:47
Speaker 1: had left without any trouble with the yellow skin storekeeper.
2:25:51
Speaker 1: From that day onward, the chinaman was never seen again.
2:25:54
Speaker 1: Loxton persuaded me to return to the ranch from the Gallas,
2:25:57
Speaker 1: and we visited the chinaman's house, where we found the
2:25:59
Speaker 1: floor dug out up as though somebody had been hunting treasure.
2:26:02
Speaker 1: My wife found a ten dollar gold piece hidden in
2:26:04
Speaker 1: the crack between the adobe bricks, and later my son
2:26:07
Speaker 1: john On earthed twelve Mexican dollars beneath some minera in
2:26:10
Speaker 1: the hancoop. Whether this had belonged to the Chiaman Lewis
2:26:13
Speaker 1: who had disappeared, or to another Chinaman who had been
2:26:15
Speaker 1: staying with him, we could not determine. In any way.
2:26:18
Speaker 1: We found no traceably or his body. Even this was
2:26:21
Speaker 1: not to be the end of the strange series of
2:26:23
Speaker 1: fatalities to Chinamen on the Sanford ranch. In eighteen ninety seven,
2:26:27
Speaker 1: I quit the Sandford Formership after working for my employer
2:26:30
Speaker 1: seventeen years, and turned the ranch over to Amos Bloxton,
2:26:33
Speaker 1: another son in law of Sandford. I ranted agricultural land
2:26:36
Speaker 1: from Sandford and fell to farming near my place. Crazy John,
2:26:40
Speaker 1: a Chinaman, had his gardens where he made adobe bricks.
2:26:43
Speaker 1: Besides growing produce We were living then in the old
2:26:46
Speaker 1: store building, and the Chinaman was making bricks about a
2:26:48
Speaker 1: quarter mile away with a Mexican whom he employed. One
2:26:51
Speaker 1: day we found him dead and the Mexican gone. After that,
2:26:55
Speaker 1: as was natural, we could never persuade a chentleman to
2:26:57
Speaker 1: live anywhere near the place. I later built a house
2:27:00
Speaker 1: so the bricks that chanaman was making when he met
2:27:01
Speaker 1: his death. The Mexican escaped to Sonora, came back when
2:27:05
Speaker 1: he thought the affair had blown over, and went to
2:27:07
Speaker 1: work for the railroad at Sonoila. There he had a
2:27:09
Speaker 1: fractus with the section for him and stabbed him and
2:27:11
Speaker 1: made off into the hills. Sheriff Wakefield from Tucson came
2:27:15
Speaker 1: down to get the man and shot him dead near Greaterville,
2:27:18
Speaker 1: which ended the incident. In the proceeding I mentioned the railroad.
2:27:23
Speaker 1: This was the Benson Urmacio Road, built by the Santa
2:27:25
Speaker 1: Fe and later sold to the Southern Pacific, which extended
2:27:28
Speaker 1: the line of San Blasson a Quachia, which is now
2:27:31
Speaker 1: in the process of extending it further to the Sea
2:27:33
Speaker 1: of Tepek. I was one of those who helped survey
2:27:36
Speaker 1: the original line from Benson In the Galls. I think
2:27:39
Speaker 1: the date was eighteen eighty three. In future times, I
2:27:42
Speaker 1: had ventured to state that this road will be one
2:27:44
Speaker 1: of the best paying properties of the Southern Pacific Company,
2:27:47
Speaker 1: which has had the courage and foresight to open up
2:27:49
Speaker 1: the immensely rich empire of Western Mexico. West coast of
2:27:53
Speaker 1: Mexico is yet in the baby stage of its development.
2:27:56
Speaker 1: The revolutions have hindered progress there considerably. But when peace
2:27:59
Speaker 1: comes at last, and those now shouldering arms for this
2:28:02
Speaker 1: and that faction and the Republic returned to the peaceful
2:28:05
Speaker 1: vocations they owned before the war began, there is no
2:28:07
Speaker 1: doubt that the world will stand astonished at the riches
2:28:10
Speaker 1: of this at present undeveloped country. There are portions of
2:28:13
Speaker 1: the west coast that have never been surveyed, that are
2:28:16
Speaker 1: inhabited to this day with peaceful Indians who have seldom
2:28:19
Speaker 1: seen a white face. The country is scattered with the
2:28:22
Speaker 1: ruins of wonderful temples and cathedrals, and doubtless much of
2:28:25
Speaker 1: the old Aztec treasure still lies buried for some enterprising
2:28:29
Speaker 1: fortune seekers on earth. There are also immense forests of
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Speaker 1: cedar and mahogany and other hardwoods to be cut and
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Speaker 1: extensive areas of land suitable for sugar planting and other
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Speaker 1: farming to be brought under cultivation. When all this is
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Speaker 1: opened up, the West Coast cannot help taking its place
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Speaker 1: as a wonderfully rich and productive region. End of chapter nine,
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Speaker 1: Chapter ten Arizona's Yesterday by John Katy and Basil Wound.
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Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain recording by
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Speaker 1: Tony Pisante. In age, the cricket chirps and brings a
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Speaker 1: faltering step on life's highway, a grip on the bottom rung,
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Speaker 1: A few good deeds done here and there, and my
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Speaker 1: life's song is sung. It's not what you get in
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Speaker 1: velt that counts. It's not your time in the race.
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Speaker 1: For most of us draw the slaughter mounts, and our
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Speaker 1: deeds cannot keep the pace. It's for each what he's
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Speaker 1: done of kindness, and for each what he's done of cheer.
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Speaker 1: It goes on the maker's score book with each succeeding year. Wound.
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Speaker 1: While I was farming on the Sanford ranch, the brother
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Speaker 1: in law of d. A. Sanford, Frank Lawrence by name,
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Speaker 1: came to live with me. Frank was a splendid fellow
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Speaker 1: and we were fast friends. One day, during the rodeo,
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Speaker 1: we were out when the vicarios were working, and on
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Speaker 1: our return found our home adobe house burned down, and
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Speaker 1: all our belongings with it, including considerable provisions. My loss
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Speaker 1: was slight, for in those days I owned a prejudice
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Speaker 1: against acquiring any more worldly goods than I could with
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Speaker 1: comfort pack on my back. But Frank lost a trunk
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Speaker 1: containing several perfectly good suits of clothes and various other
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Speaker 1: more or less valuable articles, which he set great store by,
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Speaker 1: besides over a hundred dollars in green backs. We hunted
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Speaker 1: among the ruins, of course, but not a vestage of
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Speaker 1: anything savable did we find. Three days later, however, Sandford
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Speaker 1: himself arrived and took one look at the ruins. Then,
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Speaker 1: without a word, he started poking about with his stick.
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Speaker 1: From underneath where his bed had been, he dug up
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Speaker 1: a little box containing several hundred dollars in green backs,
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Speaker 1: and from the earth beneath the charred ruins of the
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Speaker 1: chest of drawers he did likewise. Then he stood up
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Speaker 1: and laughed at us. I will admit that he had
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Speaker 1: a perfect right to laugh. He the one man of
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Speaker 1: the three of us who could best afford to lose
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Speaker 1: anything was the only man whose money had been saved,
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Speaker 1: which only goes to prove the proverbial luck of the
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Speaker 1: rich man. Not long after his experience, I moved to Crittenden,
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Speaker 1: where I farmed awhile running buggy trips to the mines
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Speaker 1: in the neighborhood as a side lion. One day a
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Speaker 1: man named Wheeler of Wheeler and Perry, a Tucson merchandise establishment,
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Speaker 1: came to critten and and I drove him out to
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Speaker 1: De Casni. On the way, Wheeler caught sight of a
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Speaker 1: large fur pine growing on the sloop over hill. He
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Speaker 1: pointed to it and said, say, John, I'd give you
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Speaker 1: somethin have that tree in my house at Christmas, was
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Speaker 1: then a week or so to the twenty fifth of December.
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Speaker 1: I glanced at the tree and asked him you would eh,
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Speaker 1: now about how much would you give? I'd give five dollars?
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Speaker 1: He said done. I said, you give me five dollars
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Speaker 1: and count that tree years for Christmas, and we shook
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Speaker 1: hands on it. A few days later I rigged up
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Speaker 1: a wagon, took along three Mexicans with axes, and cut
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Speaker 1: a load Christmas trees. I think there were some three
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Speaker 1: hundred in the load. Then I drove the wagon to Tucson,
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Speaker 1: and after delivering wheeler is a special tree and receiving
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Speaker 1: the stipulate five dollars for it, commenced peddling to rest
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Speaker 1: on streets and say those Christmas trees sold like wildfire.
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Speaker 1: Everybody won one. I sold them for as low as
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Speaker 1: six bits and as high as five dollars, and before
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Speaker 1: I left, pretty nearly everybody in Tucson on one of
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Speaker 1: my trees. When I counted up, I found my trip
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Speaker 1: at neetemie over and above expenses just one thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: This you'll have to admit, was some profit for a
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Speaker 1: load of Christmas trees. Sad to relate. However, a year later,
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Speaker 1: when I tried to repeat the performance, I found about
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Speaker 1: forty other fellows ahead of me loaded to the guards
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Speaker 1: with Christmas trees of all kinds and sizes. For a time,
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Speaker 1: Christmas trees were cheaper than a skiep brush. As the
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Speaker 1: overstocked crowd endeavor doneload and over splied town. I escaped
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Speaker 1: with myle fit, my life, but no profits that time.
2:32:49
Speaker 1: On December fifteenth, nineteen hundred, I moved to Patagonia, which
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Speaker 1: had just been born on the wave of the copper boom,
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Speaker 1: rented a house which I ran successfully for one year,
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Speaker 1: and then started the building of the first wing of
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Speaker 1: the Patagonia Hotel, which I still own and run together
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Speaker 1: with the dance hall, gating rink and restaurant. Since that
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Speaker 1: first wing was built, the hotel has changed considerably in appearance.
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Speaker 1: For whenever I got far enough ahead justify it, I
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Speaker 1: built additions. I think I may say now that the
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Speaker 1: hotel is one of the best structures of its kind
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Speaker 1: in the county. I am considering the advisability of more editions,
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Speaker 1: including a large skating rink and dance hall, but the
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Speaker 1: copper situation does not justify me in the outlay. At present,
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Speaker 1: I am entirely satisfied with my location. However, Patagonia is
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Speaker 1: not a large place, but it is full of congenial
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Speaker 1: friends and will one day, when the copper industry again
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Speaker 1: finds its feet, be a large town. It is in
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Speaker 1: the very heart of the richest mining zone in the world,
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Speaker 1: if the assayers are to be believed. Some of the
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Speaker 1: mining properties, now nearly all temporarily closed down, are world famous.
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Speaker 1: I quote, for example, the Three Hours, the World's Fair,
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Speaker 1: the Flux, the Santa Cruz, the Hartchell, the Heart to Oramosa,
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Speaker 1: the Mattezuma, the Mansfield, and the Maori. This last nine
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Speaker 1: miles from Patagonia was a producer long before the Civil War.
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Speaker 1: Lead in silver mind at the Maori were transported to
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Speaker 1: Galveston to be made into bullets for the war. Imagine
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Speaker 1: being hit with a silver bullet. Eighteen fifty seven, Sylvester Mouri,
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Speaker 1: owner of the Maori mine and one of the earliest
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Speaker 1: pioneers of Arizona, was chosen to delegate to Congress by
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Speaker 1: a petition of the people, who was not admitted to
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Speaker 1: his seat. Maori was subsequently banished from Arizona by Commander
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Speaker 1: Carleton and his mind confiscated for reasons which were never
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Speaker 1: quite clear. My purpose for writing these memoirs is twofold. First,
2:34:39
Speaker 1: I desired that my children should have a record which
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Speaker 1: could be referred to by them after I am gone.
2:34:44
Speaker 1: And secondly, that the state of Arizona, my adopt at home,
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Speaker 1: should be richer for the possession of the facts that
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Speaker 1: I have at my disposal. I want the reader to
2:34:53
Speaker 1: understand that even though the process of evolution has taken
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Speaker 1: a lifetime, I cannot cease wondering at the marvelous development
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Speaker 1: of the territory later state of Arizona. I glanced back
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Speaker 1: over a vista of years and see the old, and
2:35:06
Speaker 1: then opened my eyes to survey the new. It is
2:35:08
Speaker 1: almost as though a Verne or a Haggard's sketch had
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Speaker 1: come to life. Who, in an uneventful stop over Adronimo
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Speaker 1: Graham County would believe that these same old Indians who
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Speaker 1: sit so peaceibly mouthing their cigarros at the trading store
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Speaker 1: were the terrible apaches of former days, The same avenging
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Speaker 1: demons who murdered emigrants, fought the modernly equipped soldier with
2:35:29
Speaker 1: bow and arrow, robbed and looted right and left, and
2:35:31
Speaker 1: finally were forced to give in to the greatest enemy, civilization.
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Speaker 1: And who shall begin to conjecture to the thoughts that
2:35:38
Speaker 1: now and again passed through the brains of these old
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Speaker 1: Apache relics, living now so quietly on the bounty of
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Speaker 1: an unto generous government, with dreams of settlement, massacres, of
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Speaker 1: stage robberies, of desperate fights, that they may conjure up
2:35:50
Speaker 1: until the wheezy arrival of the Arizona Eastern Locomotive disperses
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Speaker 1: their visions with the blast of sword actuality. For the
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Speaker 1: Arizona that I knew back in the frontier days, with
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Speaker 1: the embodiment of the old West, the west of sudden
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Speaker 1: fortune and still more sudden death, the West of romance
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Speaker 1: and of gold, of bad whiskey and doubtful women, of
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Speaker 1: the hearty prospector, and the old cattleman, who must gaze
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Speaker 1: a little sadly back along the trail as they near
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Speaker 1: the end of it, at the thought of the days
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Speaker 1: that may never come again. And now I myself am
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Speaker 1: reaching the end of my long and eventful journey. And
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Speaker 1: I can say, bringing to mind my youth and all
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Speaker 1: that followed it, that I have lived, really lived, and
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Speaker 1: I am content. D end end of chapter ten, End
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Speaker 1: of Arizona's Yesterday by John Caddy and Basilon