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.

EARLY HISTORY.
voyage of discovery, under the leadership of one Francisco de
Lujo, accompanied by nearly a thousand Tlascalan Indians,
whom he had secured as allies. This expedition, like the
two which succeeded it, never returned, and their ultimate
end is one of the many questions concerning the history of
the Conquerors, which time has never solved.
The most reliable information to be obtained demonstrates
pretty accurately that the present Territory of Arizona covered a large portion of the country then known as the kingdom of Cibola, which extended south far enough to include
the Mexican States of Chihuahua and Sonora of the present
day; and which was, in truth, the land from which came
by far the greater portion of Montezuma's coveted wealth.
Of the races that originally peopled Mexico, we have no
written history. We know that the Toltecs were succeeded,
somewhere about 1070, by the Chichimecas, who in their
turn were succeeded by the Mexicans, or Aztecs, about
the year 1170.
The only information to be obtained concerning these remniarkable nations, is to be found in the traditionary legends
of their descendants; and from them we know that as early
as 1325, the Aztecs founded upon the shores of Lake Tez.
cuco, the city of Tenochtitlan, now known as the city of
Mexico.
These facts are found recorded in a copy of the Gronica
de la Veuva Espaia, published at Medina, in Spain, as
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