b"Three Great Apache Chiefs old ghting spirit in those Apaches still free in theARIZONAS BEST SELECTIONcontinued from page 18One troop of U.S. soldiers already had pinned down this band of young Apaches near Ojo Caliente, killing fourmountains. He took the remnants of Victorios band warriors. The troopers were now preventing the Apacheinto New Mexico and was immediately joined by more raiders from crossing the border into Mexico andthan two dozen erce young Mescalero warriors. NanasOF QUALITY TACK & SADDLES!rejoining Victorios main camp. entire force now numbered 40 warriors.U.S Backup Arrives Raiding as they went, the band reached Alamo Canyon. Terrazas was being reinforced from the north rapidly.On July 17th, 1881, some of Nanas scouts ambushedMAY SPECIALS!Baylor arrived with some 20 rangers. Lieutenant Jamesan Army pack train. General Hatch at Fort Stanton was A. Manney appeared with two dozen black troops andnotied and a troop of black soldiers accompanied by Captain Charles Parker arrived with 68 ChiricahuaApache scouts set out after Nanas force. The hunt went Apache scouts. This combined force picked up the trailinto the San Andreas Mountains, then across the Rio of Victorios band and followed it to the foot of the TresGrande into Mexico, then back into New Mexico.Castillos. Terrazas could see victory was at hand. With Victorios warriors scattered in Texas and with old NanaOld Nana had learned well Victorios hit and run tactics. elsewhere in Mexico, taking Victorios camp in theThere were a couple of brief encounters, both indecisive.SELECT mountains would be easy. Two Mexicans and a woman were killed at a ranch Sends Yankees Home house; two miners and a Mexican herder were killed,ASSORTED PADSleaving a bloody trail back to the Rio Grande and into The Mexican Colonel ordered the American forcesMexico. The bodies of four Mexicans were found in the that had joined him to return to their own country. HeSan Mateo Mountains foothills.said he did not trust the Chiricahua Apache scouts to ght with his forces against Victorio. The Americans inCowboy Possethe expedition had to obey the Mexican colonel. TheyA rancher in Mexico named Mitchell rounded up a Colonel Joaquin Terrazasangrily headed back across the border. He was totally surrounded and no retreat through the36 man posse to pursue Nana and his band after they$ 30 00found their trail. The band of cowboys followed the Terrazas then marched his force to a place in thetrail into the Red Canyon and on August 1, stopped for mountains where there is a deep basin that can bebox canyon was possible. It had been closed off. Victorio,dinner. Nanas warriors, hidden throughout the canyon, reached only through a box canyon, a place he knewalready suffering several wounds, summoned his bravesstampeded the posses horses while the cowboys ate. The to be the favorite camping spot in the Tres Castillos forto plan their nal assault. posse was afoot. The Apaches in the rocks of the canyon the Apaches. When he arrived, there was no sign of thecould see the cowboys and took careful aim at them Indians. He set his pickets and camped for the night nearFelled By Sniper with their ries. The cowboys could see nothing but the box canyon. The pickets had spotted a large dustA Tarahumara scout named Mauricio, famed for hisrocks and could not get clear shots at the Apaches. Oneby Fast Back, cloud made by Victorios band, which was on the moveskill as a crack rie shot caught a glimpse of Victoriocowboy was killed, seven others badly wounded.toward the canyon and basin beyond it. Terrazas had alldirecting his small force of warriors. Mauricio leveledNana had caused them enough damage. His interestsClassic and Cactus!traces of his campres eliminated, and then posted hishis rie. His gleaming black eyes steadily drew a bead on irregulars and his Tarahumara scouts high on the cliffs ofthe Apache chief. His nger squeezed the trigger slowlywere in their horses, which his warriors rounded up. the canyon and those surrounding the basin, concealedbut deliberately. The rie cracked. Victorio was killedTwo days later, a U.S. Army lieutenant with a troop of behind boulders and ledges. instantly. His long and nal ght to save the Apaches wascavalry took up Nanas trail where the Mitchell posse hadCheck out newTHE FRESHEST ROPES IN ARIZONA! over in an instant. In the hours that followed, most ofbeen forced to abandon it. The troopers spotted Nanas Rides Into Death Trap his band followed him in death. Only a few escaped andband two days later near Santa Monica Springs but thestyles just in!Victorio headed his band into the box canyon andthey were harried relentlessly through the mountains,Apaches immediately disappeared.through to the deep basin totally unaware of the presenceleaderless, in total disarray, living like wild animals of Terrazas' forces. When the Apaches, mostly old men,ahead of the hunt until they were nally captured.Only Two Dozen Warriorswomen and children with few warriors among them, wereOld Nanas band had suffered some losses. He now only through the box canyon and into the basin, they wereIn the three years of Victorios last stand for the Apaches,had about 25 ghting men left. Eight troops of cavalry, greeted by a withering barrage of rie re from all sides. from 1877 to 1880, the great Warm Springs warrior hadeight companies of infantry and two companies of run circles around two American generals, outwittingIndian scouts were hunting Nana and his tiny band. their troops at virtually every turn, and thoughNana, lled with hatred and bitterness, crossed theFIRST PLACE TO STOP, BEST PLACE TO SHOPoutnumbered, was never defeated in numerous clashesdesert to La Savoya.with the U.S. Army.On August 11th, the U.S. Army troops following him In Mexico, he had once captured over 500 horses fromfound the mutilated bodies of two Mexicans. Two the Governor of Chihuahua State himself and outwittedMexican women had been carried off by the band. The the top Mexican general there repeatedly. He had killedcavalry troop was falling behind, despite pushing as50 OFF DAYS more than 200 white citizens in New Mexico alone, anhard as 40 miles a day, far exceeding the regulationsVISIT OUR equal number of Mexican citizens south of the border,limiting mounted marches to 25 miles a day. Soonfor HAY &TACK TRAILERS and more than 100 U.S. and Mexican soldiers. If histhe troopers had been left far behind by Nana and hisBAGGED FEED people had been permitted by the U.S. Army to remainquick moving band. Another troop of cavalry, fromTuesdays & Thursdays AT THE WS in their homeland and had not been ordered moved tothe black 9th, had decided to cut off Nana at an angle.Pick Up Only! ROPINGS, HIGH the hated San Carlos Reservation in Arizona Territory,It did, about 25 miles west of Sabinal. After a brief all of this carnage most likely would have been preventedexchange, in which one trooper was killed and threeSCHOOL AND and Victorio and his people would have lived in peace. wounded, the Apaches disappeared. AJRA RODEOS!Forced to take the helm of the Apaches as the rightfulThe old man had led his tiny force into eight battles heir to Mangas Coloradas and Cochise as the seniorwith the U.S. Army and civilians who joined the hunt statesman of the Apache nation, Victorio foughtfor him. He won them all, killing some 40 to 50 of his gallantly, ruthlessly and brilliantly for his people againstenemy and wounding scores more. He had captured overwhelming odds, and won, for a while. two women and some 200 horses and mules, and outfoxed more than 1000 U.S. troopers as well as After Victorio several hundred civilian pursuers. He did it all withWith Victorio dead, the few scattered bands of Apachesbut 40 warriors, losing 15.still roaming free looked to old Nana for guidance. TheOld Nana, always just a warrior, and a trusted28232 N. 42nd StreetCave Creek, AZ85331old man was in his 80s, short, fat, wrinkled, and wracked with rheumatism that almost crippled him. lieutenant, of Mangas Coloradas, Cochise and Victorio, Victorio had fallen in November of 1880. By July ofhad learned their strategies well.He avenged them all480-585-4073dynamitehorsemansupply.comin 1881, much to the dismay of General Hatch and the Nana 1881, old Nana had managed, somehow, to instill thatU.S. Army.MonFri: 8am-5pmSat: 8am-3pmSun: Closed20 May 2019"