Apache Campaigns - Fort Huachuca - U.S. Army

Troop I, 4th Cavalry, in the mouth of Bisbee Canyon, 1884. Sgt. Emil Pauly is standing on the
right with stripes on arm. Photo courtesy Lt. Col. John H. Healy.
This brought the Sierra Madre campaign to an official and now successful close. Many of
the Apaches, like Jason Betzinez, would remember General Crook’s “good fatherly advice”
given in the Sierra Madres, “mainly to settle down and go to work.” Betzinez said, “I took this
to heart and have followed General Crook’s word ever since.” 104
The campaign had combined unprecedented boldness and sound military tactics to bring to
an end a situation that held the probability for extreme loss of life. Crook wrote in his annual
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