An Apache Campaign, in the Sierra Madre - An Account of the Expedition in Pursuit of the Hostile Chiricahua, Apaches in the Spring of 1883 #220196

There is this difference to be noted, however of the one hundred and twenty-five (125) fight ing men brought back from the Sierra Madre, less than one-third have engaged in the present hostilities, from which fact an additional infer ence may be drawn both of the difficulties to be overcome in the repression of these distur bances and of the horrors which would surely have accumulated upon the heads of our citi zens had the whole fighting force of this fierce band taken to the mountains.