Brief description:
AN APACHE PRINCESS. A Tale of the Indian Frontier. By Gen. Charles King.
The crowding incidents and mysteries of this story of what happened to a slender young Lieutenant of cavalry, who combined fine soldierly qualities with repose at manner and a taste tor entomology will keep the reader trying to read ahead of himself, as it were, in his eagerness to find out what is really, going to happen. The reader will read to the end, however. The Apache Princess of the title cherishes a passion for the bug-hunting young Lieutenant, [from an earlier encounter, which is revealed much later] and uses a long knife with bloody effect on two private soldiers [who threaten him]. The bug-huntlng Lieutenant lies under suspicion of lax morals, In the mind, at least, of a maiden lady at Scotch descent [this sister of another officer]. However the officer's daughter - the maiden Iady‘s youthful niece - falls in love with the Lieutenant and he with her. Then there is the French maid of a. Major’s wife, who seems conceived in the flnest spirit of melodrama. ..... However, the maid is villainous, and at the end appears guilty df bigamy. theft, arson, and other crimes.
Of course one has an Indian outbreak, galloping of troopers hither and thither, a last stand of a scouting party amid the rocks, with a rescue at the dramatic moment. A party goes out on scout, another
party goes out to rescue the first,and a third to rescue the second, and so on.
Gen, King has relieved the hurly-burly at wild alarums by saying a good deal about the petty jealousies and gossips of the ladies at the army post. which is the center of action. This part of the taIe at least
bears a relation to familiar actualities which the average... civilian will have no difficulty in appreciating. For the rest, as has been said, the story inspires the overmastering desire to read ahead at a mad gallop -- taking pages sometimes as a hunter does fences _ -- and if possible, catch the flying thread of events. That, after all, is not an uncomplimentary thing to say about a story of adventure.
Review appearing in NY Times: Oct 17, 1903
The crowding incidents and mysteries of this story of what happened to a slender young Lieutenant of cavalry, who combined fine soldierly qualities with repose at manner and a taste tor entomology will keep the reader trying to read ahead of himself, as it were, in his eagerness to find out what is really, going to happen. The reader will read to the end, however. The Apache Princess of the title cherishes a passion for the bug-hunting young Lieutenant, [from an earlier encounter, which is revealed much later] and uses a long knife with bloody effect on two private soldiers [who threaten him]. The bug-huntlng Lieutenant lies under suspicion of lax morals, In the mind, at least, of a maiden lady at Scotch descent [this sister of another officer]. However the officer's daughter - the maiden Iady‘s youthful niece - falls in love with the Lieutenant and he with her. Then there is the French maid of a. Major’s wife, who seems conceived in the flnest spirit of melodrama. ..... However, the maid is villainous, and at the end appears guilty df bigamy. theft, arson, and other crimes.
Of course one has an Indian outbreak, galloping of troopers hither and thither, a last stand of a scouting party amid the rocks, with a rescue at the dramatic moment. A party goes out on scout, another
party goes out to rescue the first,and a third to rescue the second, and so on.
Gen, King has relieved the hurly-burly at wild alarums by saying a good deal about the petty jealousies and gossips of the ladies at the army post. which is the center of action. This part of the taIe at least
bears a relation to familiar actualities which the average... civilian will have no difficulty in appreciating. For the rest, as has been said, the story inspires the overmastering desire to read ahead at a mad gallop -- taking pages sometimes as a hunter does fences _ -- and if possible, catch the flying thread of events. That, after all, is not an uncomplimentary thing to say about a story of adventure.
Review appearing in NY Times: Oct 17, 1903
Publication
Grosset & Dunlap (1905)
Original publication date
1903