Roman Chiquito was confined in the mili-…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

Roman Chiquito was confined in the mili- tary prison at Leavenworth nearly a year and was then removed to Fort Riley in Kansas. How he escaped with three other Apaches from prison, how they found their way back to the Mescalero reservation, a distance of twelve hun- dred miles, without being seen by a white man enroute, is the subject of this true story. The unparalleled adventure of these four Indians was related to me by Roman Chiquito himself. I would like to tell it in his own simple words, but as he spoke a mixture of Apache, Spanish and English his exact language cannot of course be given, but I have endeavored to preserve his style.