Les pionniers du '49 une histoire de l'excursion de la société des pionniers de la Californie New England . tion, les garçons, avoir recours pour nofurther quarante-quatre,vidé leurs revolvers. De manière theagile wasdancing où Ben autour comme il passedswiftly sur le front de l'hilltoward Laramie, et la quantité de poussière dans l'augmentation des petits nuages allaround lui, c'est cru le boyscarelessly weaponshis ont fait leur chemin tout en prenant le loadsout. Cinq cents tombes de pionniers, dispersés dans tout l'Arizona, markthe travail mortel des Apaches ; mais,grâce à McCormick au congrès,Safford comme gouverneur, et

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The pioneers of '49 A history of the excursion of the Society of California pioneers of New England . tion, the boys, having nofurther use for forty-fours, emptied their revolvers. From theagile manner in which Ben wasdancing around as he passedswiftly over the brow of the hilltoward Laramie, and the amountof dust rising in little clouds allaround him, it is believed the boyscarelessly pointed their weaponshis way while taking the loadsout. Five hundred graves of Pioneers, scattered throughout Arizona, markthe deadly work of Apaches ; but, thanks to McCormick in Congress, Safford as governor, and GeneralCrook in the field, no hostile Indianroams these plains, and no more isheard the flight of the poisonedarrow or the whiz of the treacher-ous bullet. McCormick once saidin Congress: I went from the cityof New York to Arizona with my INDIAN ON LOOKOUT. • j- i i • £ r ii_ prejudices largely in favor of theIndian, but when I came to deal with him I could clearly understand the terrible wrongs againstwhich the people had to contend. There are Indians whose tendency is towards civilization, . THROUGH ARIZONA. 27 who live in villages, and who, while they are naturally inclined to steal and commit occasionaldepredations, are for the most part friendly and peaceable. Then there are the Apaches, who are wild and of the very lowest order of human beings. Still, the Eastern press and the Eastern pulpits continued to make war upon the whitesettlers of Arizona, and to send greeting to the redskins; and at last forced the Governmentto send out Vincent Colyer, who traveled through the Territory under a large cavalry escort, with prayer books in one hand and presents in the other. Four weeks later the Apachesattacked the La Paz stage, Nov. 4, 1871, and killed Fred. W. Loring, a noted Boston writer, Fred. Shoholm, W. G. Solomon, P. W. Hamel, C. S. Adams, and the driver, John Lance.Wm. Kruger and Mollie Sheppard escaped. The Indians did not touch the mail bag or thevaluable express box of

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