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.

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sion of, and the Apaches driven into the mountains; these
savages were undoubtedly driven into the mountains by the
Aztecs as barbarous hordes, whom they found it impossible
to subdue, who continually harassed them and obliged them
to invent means to protect their settlements atainst surprise; thus they introduced the art of building houses of
stone and adobe; they chose the most commanding positions
upon the summits of the mesas, overlooking large tracts of
fertile bottom-lands, and added story to story in such a manner that a few resolute defenders could keep almost any
number of assailants at bay."
He thinks that these town-builders gradually pushed their
way north, until they were stopped by the immense canons
of the Colorado and Flax (Colorado ChiquLito) Rivers, thence
striking east they established the. kingdom of Cibola, lid
pushing still farther into the wilderness of what now is the
Navajoe country, they built the large towns in the Canion de
Chaco, and in the valley of the Rio tle Chelly, and then by
following up the head-waters of the Sall Juan, finally came
to the beautiful valley of the Rio Gr,ilnde.
Here they found such unusual facilities for their settlements, that they crowded in, in great numbers, gradually
working their way down from the north, until the valley
became so densely populated that they found it no longer
necessary to live in fortified towns for mutual protection.
If this be the correct theory, the fact that no such struc
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