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“Talk about sand in a man! I tell you it
takes sand in a man to try and stand off single-
handed forty or fifty Apaches, when he knows
how the scrap will end, and that the end will
be his own death. But that was just the kind
of sand that Felix Knox had when he was killed
by the Apaches. You see Knox was an all-round
gambler, such as the tenderfoot from the east
scorn so much, and know so little about, but
he had a heart in him bigger than any tender-
foot’s head. Well, it was in the spring of 1882.
Knox with his wife and baby and a Mexican
driver, were coming from Silver City to Clifton.
They got to York’s ranch, which is on the Gila
River, about thirty miles from Clifton, all right,
but were told there that signs of Apaches had
been seen, and that they had better go into
camp there for a few days, but Knox, who had
fought the Apaches dozens of times and didn’t
know what fear was, said he wanted to make
Clifton that day.