Captured by the Navajos

Captured by the Navajos by Charles A. Curtis

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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

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

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