"Owing to the strength of this [the Navajo] tribe which numbered then not less than sixty or seventy thousand (60 or 7…"

"The government now tried coercion and vigorous campaign reduced a portion of them [the Navajos] to apparent submissio…"

"Early in 1861 the Rebellion broke out, and all minor affairs were swallowed up in the major one of preserving the Uni…"

"Shortly after the ignominious expulsion of the Texas invaders, General J.H. Carleton was appointed to the command of …"

"Particular care should be taken that every promise made to them [the Navajo and Mescalero Apache] should be observed …"

"Jis' to think of that dog Chivington and his dirty hounds, up thar at Sand Creek. His men shot down squaws, and blew …"

"An oft-repeated anecdote is that which relates of an army officer, somewhat of a hero-worshiper, who, upon meeting Ca…"

"Well, I'll tell ye. I war down on the plains, an' the Comanches got after me. Thar war 'bout five hundred of 'em, an'…"

"Peters laid it on a leetle too thick."

"From California we have intelligence to the 16th of September. The State election, which took plum on the 7th, result…"