Not long after the Spanish conquistadores explored the region for gold, they began snatching Apaches and other natives as slaves.

One hunter who escaped the ambush reported that an overwhelming number of Apaches were in the wooded hills.

This, too, may have been by the order of the Government, but the Apaches do not understand it.

Individually, I succeeded in making friends with most of these Apaches.

Perhaps the Navaho and Apaches never had totemic names for their exogamous local groups.

Besides the risk of encountering the Apaches, there was the ever-present peril from wild beasts and venomous serpents.