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  1. Paul Andrew Hutton _ The Apache Wars: The Hunt for

    The language of the packers quickly entered the army vocabulary. A skittish, inexperienced young mule had its tail shaved so as to be instantly recognizable to the packers. "Shavetail" soon became the name for every spit-and-polish, greenhorn lieutenant from the East. A
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  2. Paul Andrew Hutton _ The Apache Wars: The Hunt for

    Unprotected by the army, the Mexican peasants were helpless to resist the Apache raiders, with scores carried off into captivity and hundreds more slaughtered. The desert now reclaimed the untilled fields. Cattle, sheep, mules, and goats wandered free only to fall prey to the great packs of wolves and coyotes that trailed the Apache raiding parties just as the raven shadows the predator on his rounds. Skeletons lined the roads, littered the burned haciendas, and were picked clean by scavengers in deserted villages. It was a perfect reign of terror.
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