| They drew straws to see who would kill
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| | while they cooked the larger portion of
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| the babies.It was a fall day at an Indian
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| | horsemeat over an open fire.When the meat
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| encampment in the Tonto Basin of Arizona.
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| | was cooked, the men gorged themselves on
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| Lined up on their cradleboards against a
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| | the sweet horseflesh, which they favored
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| rock wall were seven little Apache
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| | above all other. When the men finished,
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| babies. The weather was so nice, some
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| | the women too, then ate with gusto.
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| babies slept while others gazed out upon
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| | After tending and nursing their babies,
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| the strange world around them.The late
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| | the cherubs were returned to their
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| Roscoe G. Willson, in his Arizona Tales
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| | papoose baskets along the wall. The women
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| run regularly by The Arizona Republic
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| | joined the group of men sleeping off
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| newspaper, told this story. The story
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| | their heavy meal beneath the deep shade
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| illustrated how otherwise hard-bitten men
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| | of oak trees.Soon, a clattering of blue
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| could not overcome the power that
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| | jays signaled to the Indians that
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| emanates from a baby.All about the camp,
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| | something was amiss. Before the Indians
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| in 1871, there was a scene of great
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| | could rise to their feet, rifle shots
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| activity. The men in the Apache camp came
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| | rang out from the hillsides and oak
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| dashing in at early morn, driving a large
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| | thickets. Several Apache men and women
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| herd of horses, stolen that very morning
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| | were killed before they could rise.The
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| from the Bowers Ranch east of Prescott,
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| | attackers were settlers from Prescott, on
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| Arizona.The Apache men and women of the
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| | the hunt for the horses stolen that
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| camp were excited as they talked about
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| | morning from the Bowers Ranch. John B.
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| their great success. The women busied
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| | Townsend, an Indian fighter, headed the
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| themselves cooking the meat of a horse
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| | group. The Indians knew him to be brave
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| they had slaughtered. They laid strips of
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| | and fearless and held him in great
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| raw horseflesh on the oak bushes to dry
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| | respect.
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