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.

STATE OF TUCSON SOCIETY.
that we had tarried at Tucson quite as long as we cared to,
and were nothing loath to take our leave. We made no inquiries into the cause of the difficulty. The verdict of the
people was, that Colonel Robinson was justified, and no
further notice was taken of the affair. We had learned the
lesson never to see nor hear in Arizona, and it had more than
once served us a good turn.
In a conversation that night with Colonel Douglas, who
resided on a beautiful ranche a few miles below Tucson, we
learned that more than thirty persons had been killed there
within the past year; and the colonel added, as an excuse
for this wholesale slaughter, that "some of the fellers killed
was awful provokin'!"
In addition to the other excitements of the day, we
were told that a woman who had been carried off by the
Apaches some time before had been retaken and brought
into town in a starving condition. Of course we went to
see her, and a most pitiable object she was. The sight of
her emaciated form, and staring, hungry eyes, was enough
to make any one who saw her, swear vengeance on the
whole Apache race. I visited her again a few hours later, and
much to my surprise she recognized me; and I found upon
inquiry, that she was one of old Pennington's daughters,
whose story I have related in a former chapter.
Notwithstanding the unpleasant scenes of the day, we
passed a very pleasant evening, in company with Colonel
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