The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

SOLD TO THE MOJAVES.
wards compelled to labor from morning until night, in a
state of such filth and abject misery, that it is difficult to
realize how, young as they were, they could endure the
extreme hardships to which they were subjected, and live.
'I'hey were o)ften without food for two days at a time, save
as they could steal a few roots or berries while at work.
About a year after their capture, the Apaches sold them
to a band of Mojaves, for some corn and skins. Now came
the time of Olive's severest trial. Mary, worn out by toil
and suffering, weary with watching and waiting for some
sign of relief from a life of brutality and privation, at last
yielded to despair and prayed earnestly that her sufferings
might be ended by death. And that night, singing the
hymns she had learned in happier days, her soul was
ushered into eternity, and the weary little body buried, by
the loving hands of her sister, in a spot of earth that, during their servitude, they had cultivated together for these
inhuman wretches.
Olive remained four years among the Mojaves, enduring
great hardships. In 1856, she was purchased by a Mr.
Grinnell, who took her to Fort Yuma, and a few weeks
later she was sent to her brother, then living at Los
Angeles, California.
Such is a true history of the Oatman family, as corroborated by both Lorenzo and Olive. A sad one indeed, yet not
uncommon for Arizona. Not one in a hunired, however,
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