Wide Awake Volume 25 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...hand upon his knife. "I made them," the boy continued, "to cook my dinner. I had no idea that they would be taken as signals." "But what were you doing here at my lookout? Fifty years have I been Medicine-Man and seer for the Apaches. I travel before them with my bear and the Navajo Church is an old signal-station of ours, the northernmost one we have. Geronimo never ventures so far except when he sees the smoke banner waving from its summit. Lucky if I am not too late to warn him. What were you doing here, I say?" "I was hunting eagles," Howling Wolf explained, pointing to the cabin which he had built and extending the feathers. "You are a Medicine-Man, and you know the value of these. Take them as a present, and if you have any charm that will save my friends give it to me." "I have no charm," replied the Medicine-Man, "but Geronimo may be able to rescue them. Ride straight to that saddle-shaped mountain, and when you reach it, if there is a buffalo's skull on the summit, keep on to the south. You will find the Apaches in the next canon." Howling Wolf hesitated. "When are Manuelito and Tomas to be hung?" he asked. "They are to be sent to the Fort with a small escort to-morrow. They will never leave it alive. If you wish to save them your only hope is to get Geronimo to stampede the party on their way to the fort." "And this is what they get for serving the white men " Howling Wolf mused bitterly. "Treats them right," replied the Medicine-Man, striking his bear roughly; "the only luck-bringing Medicine for the Indian is the war-path. In fighting he may be the match of the white man; in treachery and cheating he can never be his equal." &q...