Tontos

How about the "Table of Tontos" Now I know why the owner of Salvador's started a new place down the street.

Wednesday Tianguis 2003

You say Tontos must not steal cattle, but we must steal or starve.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

At last, however, they fought a battle with fifteen or twenty Tontos, whose presence the soldiers divined when arrows began whizzing past their heads in the dense forest.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

By the end of July, the eighteen hundred Indians who had lived in relative contentment at Fort Apache were driven south and forced to cohabit with Aravaipas, Tontos, and Yavapais.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

The new San Carlos agent, a man already infamous for his corrupt practices the effects of which contributed to Apache misery, requested additional troops from the colonel in charge, warning darkly of “trouble with White Mountain Indians, Tontos and San Carlos Indians, growing out of the evil advice of a bad medicine man.”

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

At San Carlos, where tensions were the most volatile, Aravaipas and Tontos camped in mutual hostility.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

By the end of July, the eighteen hundred Indians who had lived in relative contentment at Fort Apache were driven south and forced to cohabit with Aravaipas, Tontos, and Yavapais.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

Ruling by iron edict and bloody reprisal, Crook had broken the spirit of the Tontos.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

But when they approached the cliff, the soldiers saw the two Tontos running down “the merest thread of a trail outlined in the vertical face of the basalt.”

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

This may have been just what Crook wanted: he was itching to go after Cochise with his soldiers and scouts and give the Chiricahua the “whipping” he had given the Tontos.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994