Whetstone Mountains

This is a very different family from Bascom of the Confederate ex-roads.

Lieutenant Bascom's command pursued some Apaches who had been raiding in Sonora in the Whetstone Mountains, where they called a parley.

The Apaches were summoned to camp under a white flag and, feeling perfectly innocent of having committed a crime against the Americans, fearlessly presented themselves before Lieutenant Bascom and his boys in blue.

They positively denied having seen the boy or stolen the oxen, and they told the truth, as was well known afterward, but the lieutenant was not satisfied and ordered them seized and executed.