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.

WAR WITH THE APACHES.
As often as the missionaries returned, and were attacked,
the natives rallied to their defence; but the constant war
waged by the Apaches soon destroyed many of their finest
cities and towns, completely ravaging their most thriving
settlements, massacring the people, and thus, ultimately,
compelling the Jesuits to abandon their missions, and seek
refuge far in the interior of Mexico, while the remnants of
a once happy and prosperous people became victims to a
horde of blood-thirsty savages, who thus commenced the
extirpation of a civilization, the remains of which are to-day
a source of wonder and admiration, the like of which may
never again be seen on that portion of our continent. Today Arizona presents a sad spectacle, one that cannot fail
to impress the beholder with wonder and regret; for its
mute sentinels silently point to a civilization centuries old,
which has not even the poor consolation of a history to
'ecord its rise and fall.
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