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About Scouting In Arizona, 1890
“Detailing the pursuit of the renegade Indians who murdered Geo. Herbert…culminating fight with the Apache renegades.” -Arizona Silver Belt, Aug. 12, 1897“Apaches who murdered George Herbert…were overtaken…on Salt River…by…Lieutenant James Watson, 10th Cavalry…had a sharp fight with the Indians.” -Salem Daily News, Mar. 10, 1890"Watson...has served so long with Indian scouts that he has acquired many of their methods." -Frederic Remington, Harper's, March 22, 1890 What actions did the famous Tenth Cavalry take after Apaches ambushed a freighter in Arizona in 1890? Would they turn a blind eye to this lone murder or dispatch one of their best Lieutenants to restore law and order on the frontier? In 1897, Lieutenant James Waterman Watson (1854-1920) would write harrowing account of his pursuit and capture of the Apaches responsible for the 1890 murder of the Arizona freighter, in a short 24-page work titled "Scouting in Arizona, 1890." In introducing his work, Watson writes: “The trail of the murderers was soon found, taken up, and followed by the united forces. The murderers had taken with them the two large horses of the dead freighter, and their large tracks aided the scouts very much in following the trail, which led up the bare, rugged sides of the Gila range of mountains. Sunset found us about fifty miles on the trail…” About the author: James Waterman Watson (1854-1920) attended West Point and became an officer in the 10th calvary (Buffalo Soldiers) Served in Arizona, Montana, and was at San Juan Hill in Cuba. Was subject of article by Fredric Remington about scouting in west.
