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 Expedition of De Cardenas. - What it found.Don Tristanii arrives with his Army. -A Terrible March. - Coronado's Report to Charles V.- Acuco. - Crookedbacked Oxen. - Coronado marches on Tiguex. - A Desperate Fight. - Pecos. - Montezuma's Temple.- The Fire-worshippers and the Sacred Flame.- The Legend of Montezuma.- His Prophecy. - Singular fulfilment of it. — The Sacred Flame kept burning for more than three Centuries.- What happened in 1542.- Coronado deter. mines to return to Culican. -An Accident. -He departs in April, 1543. - Conjectures. - We leave for Zuni. - The Valley of the Rio Grande.- Albuquerque. - Kit Carson the Veritable. - He "don't fear no Injun a-livin'."- WVe take a Guide.- All about Don Rafael. - Off for Zuni at last. - Our Camp at Isletta. - What happened there.The Rio Grande on a "Bender." - Jimmy dumbfounded. - He calls loudly on the Virgin. -On which side of the River are we? - Singular Freak of the Rio Grande. Jimmy pronounces it "the Divil's own Work,' sure." - - - 263 CHAPTER XVIII. On the Road to Laguna. -The Valley of the Rio Puerco. New Mexican Sheep.-The Herders and their Dogs. Wonderful Sagacity. - Navajoe Depredations. - What they have stolen.- Expeditions against them.- How the Government treated them. -The Puerco.-In Camp.- Don Rafael's Stories.- Game of the Country.-Jimmny deter mines to go Deer hunting. - He shows us how they hunt Deer in "Ould Ireland." - A Misfortune.- Jimmy's sud den Disappearance. - How the "Powther laked out of his Gun." - The Rio San Jose. - The Puteblo of Laguna. How the Houses are built without Doors or Windows. The Temple - An Extinct Volcano. - We ascend to the top of the Temple. -Peach and Apricot Orchards. -- E Route for Acoma. -Its Situation on the top of a Rook 18

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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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