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.

THE "DOUBTFUL PASS."
the entrance to the "Doubtful Pass." It is, in fact, a
canon of the dividing ridge between the waters of the
Atlantic and the Pacific; or in other words, the door of
entrance to the Pacific slope.
Through this caion our road for a couple of miles lay
between two high walls of massive rock, barely wide
enough to allow a wagon to pass. A solid wall of rock
towered far above us on either side, and the road itself,
which in the rainy season became a mere water-course, was
washed and gullied by recent rains, until it was almost
impassable for any wheeled vehicle. In addition to this, we
were constantly ascending a very steep grade, which made
our progress slow and laborious. Our patient mules, however, acquitted themselves nobly, and for the next six hours
we toiled up the steep ascent, every step bringing us nearer
to safety and a resting-place.
The scenery at this point was grand, gloomy, and peculiar. Immense gravel-hills, barren as the rocks which
surrounded them; huge granite boulders and masses of sandstone flung out of the earth at random, met our gaze; strange
jagged mountain-peaks rose on all sides, while towering
high above all was the snow-clad summit of Stein's Peak
looking down upon us, cold and silent, keeping its solitary
"watch and ward," as it lifted itself far above the desolate
wastes around.
At last we see the low thatched roof of Stein's Peak
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