Complex sentence: Back at the camp Skinner recognizes the danger and attempts to track down the Apache on his own, planning to catch them off guard and burn the brush around the camp in the hopes of burning them to death.
Split into simpler sentences: Back at the camp Skinner recognizes the danger and attempts to track down the Apache on his own, planning to catch them off-guard. He ignites the brush around the camp in the hopes of burning them to death.