This work is an account of John C. Cremony's encounters with the Indians of the Southwest.
Major John C. Cremony was an American soldier famous for creating the first dictionary of the
Apache language. His first meeting with the Apache occurred in the early 1850s when he
accompanied John R. Bartlett's boundary commission surveying the United States-Mexican border
and also ten years later when he as an officer of the California Volunteers renewed his
acquaintance particularly with the Apaches whom he came to know as few white Americans.
