On the Trail of Geronimo: In the Apache Country by E. S. Ellis

On the Trail of Geronimo: Or, In the Apache Country by by Edward Sylvester Ellis. - (1889). - 355 pages 

"AT WEST POINT
At last the four years arduous course at West Point Academy was finished.  Who of us that have been through the study, dill and training at that admirable institution can forget a single day of the eventful term spent there ? 

With what timidity we made our way up the long, sloping hill to the array of buildings and presented our "appointment," which some of us had brought all the way from the Pacific slope or the Gulf, picturing in our mind what West Point looked like, and how we would conduct ourselves after we got there? And, as is always the case, how different the reality proved from..."

And then what could look more awe inspiring than the upper class men, as we caught sight of them here, there, and everywhere, eyesight us as we can imagine that cannibals might eye a party of prisoners from which they are to select their victims. 

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