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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.