Even the plants attack. Jumping cholla punctures unwary flesh. Worse than all these hardships is the Apache. He is a relentless foe. Time after time bands of Indians raid the almost defenseless colony.
Stock is driven off.
Farmers are tortured and killed. Several times the settlers are forced off the land. Still they come back to try again, two determined cultures in a fight to the finish. On March 11th of 1868 the Apache went on a particularly vicious rampage. They killed eleven men and two women.