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.

DISADVANTAGES.
from the State of California by a desert, across which it requires a man of stout heart to venture, and then only when
provided with a numerous escort, and no niggardly amount
of ammunition and provisions; surrounded by ranges of
almost impassable mountains; twelve hundred miles from
Lavaca, the nearest seaport in Texas, six hundred of which
are through a country almost destitute of water, and inhabited
by a race of Indians second only to the Apaches in barbarity
and cruelty.
Is it any wonder that Arizona, rich though it is in its
mineral wealth, with its fertile valleys untilled, its uplands
shorn of their flocks and herds, its settlers' homes ravished
and desolated by bands of marauding savages, should fail
to attract by its beauties, what it embraces but to destroy?
That its mines are less known than those of Washoe, Idaho,
Nevada, or Colorado?
Remember, too, that Arizona never yet possessed a population of more than two thousand Americans, and those
the worst class of gamblers, renegades, and cut-throats that
could, by any possibility, be gathered together from the four
quarters of the globe, a very large portion of whom sought
a home in Arizona, only when driven by the Vigilance
Committees of Texas and California, to find some country
where law was unknown, and justice recognized only so far
as it suited the particular ideas of the party administering
it, and who, under its sacred guise, assumed the right to
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