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LIFE AMONG THE APACHES.
their faces. By this heroism and wonderful tenacity of life he saved some sixty or seventy of his people, who gained time to retreat amidst inaccessible rocks. He was only finished by receiving a pistol ball through the brain, and continued fighting, single-handed, until finally dispatched. His bow and quiver of arrows are now in the rooms of the California Pioneers.
