General Crook and the Fighting Apaches

Excerpt from General Crook and the Fighting Apaches IT should not be expected that an Indian who has lived as a barbarian all his life will become an angel the moment he comes on a reservation and promises to behave himself or that he has that strict sense of honor which a person should have who has had the advantage of civilization all his life and the benefit of a moral training and character which has been transmitted to him through a long line Of ancestors. It requires constant watching and knowledge of their character to keep them from going wrong. They are children in ignorance not in innocence. I do not wish to be understood as in the least palliating their crimes but I wish to say a word to stem the torrent of invective and abuse which has almost universally been indulged in against the Whole Apache race. Greed and avarice on the part of the whites - in other words the almighty dollar - is at the bottom of nine-tenths. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.