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.

IVILL YOU ACCOMFPANY rUS?
trip alone, had I been unable to find anybody to accompany
me.
The preceding pages contain the early history of the country which we proposed to visit at this time, and we asked
ourselves the questions many times over,- Shall we be able
to recognize the different localities from the slight knowledge
we have of them? Shall we find, inhabiting the pueblos, descendants of the people so minutely described by Father
Niza and Coronado, possessing any of the characteristics
and li.:bits of their ancestors?
Reader, will you tccompany us in our journey, or shall
we part here? Do you rare to encamp with us at each
stoppiing-place we make on the long, dusty drive to Albuqurqte, or will you be content to know that we crossed the
ongI jornada of ninety miles without water, in safety? That
on our right hand we saw each day the peaks o)f the Sierra
Blanca, the Organos, and the Oscruro; and oni our left those
of the Mimbres, while afar off, to the north and west, the
snowv-clad peaks of the Sierra Madre range glistened each day
in the bright sunshine like huge cones of crystal, stretchiing
from seven to nine thousand feet in the air; that after a
weary journey of five days we were at last delighted with a
sight of the twin spires on the church in Albuqurque; that
we found here one of the neatest, and at the same time most
interesting towns we had yet seen in the country; that we
accepted the generous hospitality of our friend, Judge Baird,
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