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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
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OLD CAMP GRANT ON THE RIO SAN PEDRO—DAILY ROUTINE OF LIFE—ARCHITECTURE
OF THE GILA—SOLDIERS AS LABORERS—THE MESCAL
AND ITS USES—DRINK AND GAMBLING—RATTLESNAKE BITES AND THE
GOLONDRINA WEED—SODA LAKE AND THE DEATH VALLEY—FELMER
AND HIS RANCH. 1


CHAPTER II.

STRANGE VISITORS—SOME APACHE CUSTOMS—MEXICAN CAPTIVES—SPEEDY
AND THE GHOST—THE ATTACK UPON KENNEDY AND ISRAEL'S TRAIN—FINDING
THE BODIES—THE DEAD APACHE—A FRONTIER BURIAL—HOW
LIEUTENANT YEATON RECEIVED HIS DEATH WOUND—ON THE
TRAIL WITH LIEUTENANT CUSHING—REVENGE IS SWEET. 17


CHAPTER III.

THE RETURN TO CAMP GRANT—LANCED TO DEATH BY APACHES—THE KILLING
OF MILLER AND TAPPAN—COMPANY QUARTERS—APACHE CAPTIVES—THE
CLOUD-BURST—APACHE CORN-FIELDS—MEETING COLONEL SANFORD—ENTRAPPED
IN AN APACHE AMBUSCADE—AN OLD-TIMER'S REMINISCENCES
OF TUCSON—FUNERAL CROSSES ON THE ROADSIDE—PADRE
EUSEBIO KINO—FIRST VIEW OF TUCSON—THE "SHOO FLY" RESTAURANT. 34


CHAPTER IV.

SOME OF THE FRIENDS MET IN OLD TUCSON—JACK LONG—HIS DIVORCE—MARSHAL
DUFFIELD AND "WACO BILL"—"THEM 'ERE'S MEE VISITIN'
KEE-YARD"—JUDGE TITUS AND CHARLES O. BROWN—HOW DUFFIELD
WAS KILLED—UNCLE BILLY N—— AND HIS THREE GLASS EYES—AL.
GARRETT—DOCTOR SEMIG AND LIEUTENANT SHERWOOD—DON ESTEVAN
OCHOA—BISHOP SALPOINTE—PETE KITCHEN AND HIS RANCH. 66


CHAPTER V.

THE DIVERSIONS OF TUCSON—THE GAMBLING SALOONS—BOB CRANDALL
AND HIS DIAMOND—"SLAP-JACK BILLY"—TIGHT-ROPE WALKERS—THE
THEATRE—THE DUEÑAS—BAILES—THE NEWSPAPERS—STAGE-DRIVERS. 80