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135 pages softcover. Here
is an excerpt from Arizona
In The '50s by Betty Barr
It was a rule at Apache
Pass station that no Indians were allowed inside of the corral at any
time. In
the kitchen was a big fireplace and I would let them come there to get
warm,
but never when the coaches came in. One day as the coach horn blew, I
heard
Abbot the cook say, "Uga-she," or "Go out," and a
warrior answered, "To-was-te-do," or "I don't want
to."
I went in and took him by the hair and breechcloth and
hustled
him out the doorway. I
was shutting the
door when he hurled his lance at me. The door was made of split ash
logs and
pretty well seasoned. The lance buried itself in the wood and missed me.
We had given this warrior the name of "Dirty Shirt" as
he wore a hickory shirt given him by Dr. Steck, and it was dirty and
greasy,
never having been changed since he first put it on. After he threw the
lance I
was angry enough to have killed him. I caught him by the hair and
butted his
head against the stone wall. Dirty Shirt was one of Cochise's warriors
and when
Cochise heard what I had done, he planned revenge.
When the coach came in from the east loaded with passengers,
among them being Sylvester Mowry, Cochise was handy. Louis O'Shea, the
conductor, and Brad Daily, driver, had a great terror of the Apaches.
When all
were seated to eat, I came in from the corral. At a glance, I knew that
Cochise
was there on purpose, for he had always gone from the station at other
times
when the coach came in...
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