The whole country at the time was kept in…
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

The whole country at the time was kept in commotion by Indian depredations; to the in- habitants they were a holy terror, and every trip they made there was an attack on the pack- mule train going or coming from the mines; but Kirker was so successful in repulsing them that he soon acquired a reputation as an Indian fighter, and some of the principal men of Chi- huahua held out inducements to him to raise a company to fight the Apaches.