Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1896-04-18
ARCHIE MCINTOSH.
An Interesting Description of tn,
Noted Half Breed Scotchman

An Interesting Description of the
Noted half Breed Scotchman
and Scout.
The following letter was written by
Sim Pick, at Fort Apache, to the Hol-
brook Argus and appeared in that in
teresting Journal April 9th.
There's a chiel amang yes takin notes,
And faith he1 prent EN-"
BIOGRAPHY OF ARCHIE M'INrosH.
Born at Fort William, Mich, Sept. il,
1884. of Scotch Indian lareutage-hle
father being Scctchm6n frum Scot-
land emu his mother full-bioOd CnIp
pewa Indian woman Of fair knowledge
Of Lhe English language and the way
of the whites. At the ag- of ten years,
ArchIe's parents lived at the the head oi
he Frazier river, British possessions,
where his father was employed by the
Hudson Bay Company. Archle's Onlj
source of schooling at this place, Wac
his father who would teacn him how tU
speli and hear him recit5 the multIplIcH-
tion table while his fatner Owed the
ca .Ce and Archie Ets ared IT. around tbs
small lakes on their daily visits TO the
tr .ps, and various other occupations.
It wss On one of these canoeing lrIus
that Archie witnessed. The death Of his
father while they were about 10 land,
shot from am bueh, the bail piercing the
sku of his father, causing him Instant
desth.
From Frazier river Archie's mother,
three SISTERS, thr younger brothers
and himself e5ct p=d in the light o Stew
ards lake, rs IL was r-pOr Ell that tie
white man's family was to be , xte nina
ted, thence to Vancouver, W. eIe be
went to school until be v as Lwelve ears
Of age, when be embarked for ElIn-
burgh. Scotland, via Cape Horn, for the
purpose OF Obta!Dipg an education. Al
the end OF two years he retur..ed To Van
couver and went TO school uLtll he was
eighteen yesrs Of age, when be accept, c
clerkship in the Hudson Bay companys
service, which be held for one Year.
Archie entered the U. S. government
service under Captain lGgails, U. 5.
army. In 1855, and was dispatched to the
front with a small expedition against
the Colum bis River 10 'IaJs whose de-
predations and war yells were at thai
me making things unpleasant for th-
settlers along the Colum bia river. Dur
ipg this exped tiop, Archie and another
half breed named Donald Mckay, who
now resid. at Peodlrton, O.e., dislln-
gulshed themselves, by Ihslr lid en
cunning, by leading the demoraliZ d
troops TO Fort Dallas, Ore, through Il
red-hot skirmlsh fire OF the hostile.
whose numbers were so great that the
whole booy OF troopers would have be- d
Inl q g. Al
egy of these tEo cunning half breeds.
February, 1867, Mcintosh was General
Crooks favorite guide against the Nor
tnern Piutes, at the head of tie Pr
river, CAL; was engaged 10 battle with
the PIutes AID Pitt River Tribes at To-
ferDal caves, in which battle, Lieuten-
ant MadIgan, Twenty y-third infantry.
was killed, and nineteen soldiers and
Lieutenant ParDell of Troop H. . Frs,
cavalry were wounded; the hostile loss
was many killed and captured, but
many made their escape through under
ground passage ways. March of the
same year Mcintosh, with his never fail
ing faculty for iocality, led Crooks com
mand across thirty-mile desert in a
blizzard, TO Camp Wagner, Ore, for
which feat ne was cOUpnmented by the
General. and looked upon by his immed
late associates Is being possessed with
the faculty of bl cd hou d. AID by the
IodiaB scouts, as somei hing super-hu-
man. But Archie told the writer how
he accomplished the wonderful feat.
Il knew there was gong TO be a biz
zard, and wa ched the course OF the
wind. When it (the blIzzard) w8s apon
US, General Crook asked { We bad not
better go into camp until il pa. eed, but
l SAID, follow me- and will pat you 10
TO Camp Warner toy o'clok D. NJ So
the General said no more but kept close
behind me. and you bet | pt the wind
90 my right cheek for nine long hcurs.
but had 1t changed irs direction ten de-
gTees, my goose would have been cook
ed"
In 1871, General Scofield, who was
then commanding the DIVISION of the
West, kept the wires hot and the mails
busy in making Inquiries as to McIn-
tosh's whereabouts, WITH view Of en-
ploying him as chief of scouts for the
whole OF Arizona. He was finally loca-
ted at Camp Oy-hee, Idaho, then COM
mandeu by Colonel CopI inger. He
promptly IL sponded te the call and was
assigned to General Crook against the
hostile Tontos nd San Carlos A parhes,
arriving at Tucson, A. T, in Jure OF the
same year. During this can paign Ar
chic was engaged in the battle of Four
Peaks and The Caves, twenty-five miles
east OF Fort Mcdowell. on the 26 IF De-
cember, 1872. and at Old Picket Post,
twenty-five miles east of Florence, Feb
ruary' 1874; 10 this the Tontos and San
Carlos. combined under the leadership
OF Es.kim-in-zin, whose earthly career
ended at San Carlos less than six