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Sieber Goes Down

by | Jun 13, 2012 | Inside History

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June 1, 1887 Absent from duty for five days, the Apache Kid, along with four other Apache scouts under his command, rides single file into the headquarters of the San Carlos Reservation (near Globe, Arizona). The Kid has been serving as the acting chief of scouts while Al Sieber was away at Fort Apache and the White River Subagency. Now that Sieber is back in San Carlos, he has summoned the Kid after hearing he killed another Apache in an alcohol-fueled family feud. (The offending liquor?


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