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What can you tell me about U.S. Army scout Al Sieber?

by | Mar 1, 2006 | Inside History

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ftlupton From True West’s Online Forum Al Sieber was chief of scouts for Gen. George Crook during the Apache Wars. Born in Germany, he came to America in 1849. He was a tough, relentless fighter who had, at times, 100 Apache scouts under his command. He was badly wounded in 1887 during an incident involving the Apache Kid. After surviving all sorts of hardships, Sieber was killed in 1907 in a construction accident—a rock fell on him while he was working near the Roosevelt Dam. It was rumore


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