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.

CONTENTS. - The Doctor's Horse stolen by Apaches.- Petrified Forest. -The Rio Grande. - Old Pennington and his seven Daughters.- Capture of Mrs. Paige by the Indians. - Her Suffer ings.- -Her Story.-Down the Rio Grande. -" Jim" Davis, the EmigraRt's Friend.- Jim swaps.- Home again.- The Alcalde. -" Enough to Eat at Home." ----- 69 CHAPTER VI. The Apaches.- The Terror of the Settler. -The Scourge of the White Man.- Eight Bands.- Their Location. - Their Depredations. -Their War Chiefs. -The Tribe as now constituted.- Their Numbers.- The Apache Pass. Cochise.- His personal Appearance. - "Howly Mother! is that an Apache?" - The lost Mules. - The Overland Mail Company.- The Massacre of the Fraziers.- The Bodies burned. - The Oatman Family. - Their Attempt to cross the Desert.- Their Surprise by the Apaches. The Massacre.- Escape of Lorenzo. - He returns and finds the dead Bodies of his Father, Mother, and Sister. Olive and Mary Captives. - Lorenzo's Sufferings. - The Fate of the Girls.- Their Tortures.- Slaves for four Years. -Death at last releases little Mary. - Olive buries her Sister at Night.- Olive finally purchased. - Olive and Lo renzo meet. -Mangus Colorado, the White Man's Friend. - The Tonto Apaches. - ---—......83 CHAPTER VII. Negotiations with Cochise.- He agrees to accompany me to the Apache Village as my Guide.- Our Journey. - A Mi rage.- The Country.- Its general Features.- A Canon on the Gila.- Thrilling Account of its Descent.- The "J1o nada del Muerte," or Journey of Death. -All the while gaining LigLt, though losing Strength.- Nature's wonder 4 11 0

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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.
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Cozzens, Samuel Woodworth, 1834-1878.
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Boston,: Lee and Shepard
1876.
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Arizona -- Description and travel
New Mexico -- Description and travel

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