On making known to Apache our wish to…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

have no doubt has come to the conclusion that I was a tenderfoot and a badly scared tenderfoot at that and that the terrible crowd of ruffians were merely a crowd of honest miners as harmless as kittens. Wait, my friends, wait till I get through before you form an opinion. On making known to Apache our wish to buy a wagon and team and camping outfit he told us he would look around and see what he could do to assist us. He took us to a delapi- dated old tent and told us to remain “right thar” till he returned. He was absent but a short time and on his return he informed us that he had found the very thing we wanted and told us to follow” him. He took us to the largest tent in town which was occupied by an old German and his wife who had a small stock of groceries and notions which they were selling at about five hundred per cent profit. We found the old man had a good span of states mules, a covered wagon and in fact every- thing necessary for the trip we contemplated making and we purchased the whole outfit for two hundred and seventy-five dollars.