CHAPTER XXXV.
Trouble With the Apaches--Defeat of the Soldiers--Colonel Cook's Expedition Against Them--It Meets With Only Partial Success--Major Brooks' Attempt to Punish the Apaches--A Third Expedition.
Just as Carson suspected, the Apaches were insincere in their professions of good will toward the settlers.

He had scarcely reached home, when they renewed their outrages.

The sinewy horsemen, as daring as the Crusaders who invaded the Holy Land, seemed to be everywhere.
We have already referred to those extraordinary warriors, who, for many years have caused our Government more trouble in the southwest than all the other tribes combined, and it is not necessary, therefore, to say that when any branch of the Apaches went on the war path the most frightful scenes were sure to follow.
Carson knew when to be gentle and when to be stern.

If the former measures failed, he did not hesitate to use the latter.

Coercive means were taken, but, in the first encounter between the red men and the United States troops, the latter were decisively defeated.
As a consequence, the Apaches became more troublesome than ever.