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Captured by the Navajos
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Title: Captured by the Navajos
Author: Charles A. Curtis
Release Date: May 8, 2006 [EBook #18352]
Language: English
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[Illustration: "EVERY ONE HELD HIS RIFLE IN READINESS TO SHOOT THE ESCAPING APACHES"]
CAPTURED BY THE NAVAJOS
BY CAPTAIN CHARLES A. CURTIS U.S.A.
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1904, by HARPER & BROTHERS.
CONTENTS
CHAP.
I. INTRODUCES THE BOYS
II. ATTACKED BY NAVAJOS
III. WARLIKE PUEBLOS
IV. IN A NAVAJO TRAP
V. A SIEGE AND AN AMBUSCADE
VI. CROSSING THE RIVER
VII. A SWOLLEN STREAM AND STOLEN PONY
VIII. OVER THE DIVIDE--A CORPORAL MISSING
IX. THE RESCUING PARTY
X. THE CORPORALS ARE PROMOTED
XI. BOTH PONIES ARE STOLEN
XII. INDIANS ON THE WAR-PATH
XIII. THE BOY SERGEANTS DO GOOD SERVICE
XIV. ON THE DESERT WITHOUT WATER
XV. THE PONIES ARE FOUND
XVI. APACHES IN SKULL VALLEY
XVII. PURSUIT OF THE APACHES
XVIII. ON THE TRAIL OF THE