All the same thar's a load o' lies told East concernin' the Injun.

I was wont from time to time to discuss these red folks with Gen'ral Stanton, who for years is stationed about in Arizona, an'-- merely for the love he b'ars to fightin'-- performs as chief of scouts for Gen'ral Crook.
"'Our divers wars with the Apaches,' says Gen'ral Stanton, 'comes more as the frootes of a misdeal by a locoed marshal than anything else besides.

When Crook first shows up in Arizona--this is in the long ago--an' starts to inculcate peace among the Apaches, he gets old Jeffords to bring Cochise to him to have a pow-wow.

Jeffords rounds up Cochise an' herds him with soft words an' big promises into the presence of Crook.

The Grey Fox--which was the Injun name for Crook--makes Cochise a talk.