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.

TUCSON..
he returned to camp that night, will make a person drunk
clear through, in a very short space of time.
Jimmy's excuse that it was "pure mountain dew," was
accepted; for in taste and smell it more strongly resembled
Irish whiskey than any liquor I have ever seen.
An early start the next morning, and just after noon we
entered the town of Tucson, nothing having occurred to
relieve the monotony of the journey; for Jimmy manifested not the least desire to start on any more expeditions in search of either water or information, although
he frequently complained that "thravellin' was very dhry
wark. "
Tucson, at this time, was the capital of the Teiritory,
with a population of about six hundred inhaLbitants, pearly
one-half of which were Mexicans, the balance consistidg of
a mixture of Apaches, Pimos, Papagoes, and cut-throats.
Probably never before in the history of any country were
gathered within the walls of a city such a complete assortment of horse-thieves, gamblers, murderers, vagrants, and
villains, as were to be found in the city of Tucson.
The general appearance of the place gave one the impression that it had originally been a hill, which, owing to an
unexpected but just visitation of Providence, had been
struck with lightning; and the dilapidated mud walls, and
dismantled jacals, that served as a shelter for the festering
mass of corruption that breathed upon the site, were the
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