In the Great Apache Forest

In the Great Apache Forest is the true story of 17-year-old white settler George Crosby who being too young to serve his country in France during World War I becomes a member of the forest service in Arizona where he encounters troublesome outlaws and helps to rout them with the help of a Hopi boy and his tribal elders. The Apache National Forest covered most of Greenlee County Arizona southern Apache County Arizona and part of western Catron County New Mexico. It was a rare untouched place far from the nearest railroad and boasted grizzly bears black bears mule deer and Mexican whitetail deer and wild turkeys and blue grouse in great numbers.