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.

CORONADO'S ARMY.
flower and chivalry of the province, together with eight
hundred emancipated Indians.
The army set forth the day following Easter, 1540, and
marched to the outermost limit of the province of Culican,
where it halted for rest. Coronado, however, could ill
brook even this delay; so he determined to push on ahead,
in company with Father Niza, fifty chosen horsemen, and
seventy archers, entrusting the command of the remainder
of his army to one Don Tristran de Arellano, with instructions to remain in camp fifteen days, and then follow the
route pursued bv himself.
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