Arizona republican., 1922-04-12
'NA-D|S-AH, !" 4
SQUAW Of PIONEER
DAYS IN ARIZONA
BY A. C. Grossmar, ouartzsits, Ariz.

During Arizona's last Indian war,
in 1886, as the soldiers and citizens in
Cochise county began to press the
Indians pretty hard, they began to
split up into small. punches. Some
of these lunches were pressed harder
than others, especially when the
hardy cattlemen, prospectors and
miners were in the saddle behind
them. This constant close pressure
wore down the Indian ponies, no mat
ter how shardy they were: and these
jaded Indian ponies forced the In
dians TO rest them or steal fresh
horses. And very often Chief Geroni-
mo or his next in command would
order bunch of eight or ten Indians
to make quick rushes on the outlying
white or Mexican ranches for new
saddle horses. One day. just before
dark. one of these bands OF saddle
horse rustlers approached the SANDY
Bob" ranch, which was well supplied
with livestock of that kind, this
Sandy Bob running the leading
stage lines at that time in the county,
Now, old Sandy Bob being a good
judge, of real cowboys, always kept
the genuine article on his ranch
While the cowboys were somewhat
outnumbered, they made it up in WILL
ingness to fight. With a murderous
fire, they met the Indians and forced
them off the ranch before they could
stampede the riding stock of the
ranch. After exchanging many shots
without much damage, the Indians
turned tail and ran for it. The cow
boys became somewhat uneasy fear
ing a trap, which was common in the
Indian days. But still they pressed
he T,.l
close upon them. Finally one Of the
Indians swerved to the left and
rushed into a blind canyon. Part of
the cowboys went into the canyon
after this one Indian, while the other
cowboys stayed at the mouth Of the
canyon to avert a possible rear at
tack. As these cowboys followed
very closely upon the Indian in the
blind canyon the Indian suddenly
stopped his horse, with no attempt to
shoot or speak a word. AS the cow
boys rode up and spoke to the Indian
the only words he would utter were
No sabe!" When one spoke TO him
in Spanish it was the same thing,
NO sabei"
The cowboy. looking closer at the
Indian, yellod out suddenly: "By
! CD, boys, she is a squaw!n And a
SqudW Sle WIS In man Ci0IleS. Sne
wore a thick duck miners coat. The
! cowboys brought the squaw to the
county seat, Tombstone. There she
was temporarily locked up in a small
ealaboose by herself. On being care
fully searched this duck coat she
wore had a copy OF the Record
Epitaph, the morning paper, in which
a heavy reward was offered for Ge-
%onimo and two of his leaders. The
officers could force no information
whatever from this squaw, only tina;
her name was Maids af." To ev-
erything else she would answer, "Nc
sabe!"
Several days after the incarcera-
ton of INA dis-ah" a young lady
printer remarked that she would like
to see this squaw. A printer work
ing on the Evening Tombstone re-
marked that he would gladly escort
the young lady printer over to the
| calaboose to see the squaw. She Inn
mediately took him up on Tlle inNi-
tation. AS the pair entered the Gala
boose door the squaw was sitting or
the floor with bowed head, but as
she got one glance at the White WON
an she immediately became alive
! These two women seemed TO look
right through each other, sever / TX
ing their eyes from eacn other. The
/ white woman moved "A little To the
right with her eyes always on The