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.

PARLEY STEWAR T'S SAD S TORY.
from time to time. Later in the day, we succeeded in
getting from him his sad, sad story.
He was a Missourian, by name Parley Stewart, and had
left his home two months before, for the purpose of going to
Los Angeles, California, by the thirty-fifth parallel route.
Near Los Angeles he had a son living, whose wife and child
were accompanying him, in addition to which his own wife
and six children, the youngest being a girl thirteen years of
age, made up the party, in all, ten persons: four grown men,
and six women and children.
Their household effects they carried in four covered
wagons, each one being drawn by two mules; and without
doubt it was the party that the cacique had mentioned to ais,
as passing Zuni some days before our arrival there, and
whose camp we had discovered at the Carizo Springs.
They had mnet with no accident since leaving home; had
passed to the south of what they had supposed to be the
Moquis country, and a couple of days' journey beyond it,
without seeing any signs of hostile Indians, when, upon
coming to a beautiful valley abounding in fine grass, through
which ran a stream of clear, beautiful water, they determined to halt for a few days, for the purpose of giving their
weary animals a little much-needed rest.
From Mr. Stewart's description of the place, the cacique,
as well as the Moquis, thought that it was without doubt
upon one of the tributaries of the Colorado, perhaps upon
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