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.

DEATH AND BURIAL OF MR. STEWART. 525
We buried him just outside the town, beneath the
spreading branches of a beautiful American elm, and there
his body rests to-day, as quietly as though we had been permitted to place it in consecrated ground.
The last sad offices performed, I wrote to the post-master
at Los Angeles, requesting him to send me the address of one
Parley Stewart, Jr., if he was to be found in that city or
vicinity; and three weeks from the day that we buried Mr.
Stewart, senior, upon the banks of the Rio Grande, I received
a letter stating that his son had been living on, and was
the owner of, a fine ranche about three miles from the
city, but about two months before he had been brutally
murdered by a couple of his Mexican herders with whom it
was supposed he had had some difficulty, and to revenge
either a real or fancied wrong, they had shot him in his. own
house. The letter further stated that he had left a handsome
property, awaiting the claim of his relatives.
But where were they? The last one of Parley Stewart's
family had undoubtedly passed away, for although every inquiry was made by me, as well as by the military authorities stationed in the Territory, we failed to obtain the
slightest trace of the two girls who had so mysteriously disappeared at the time of the massacre. They either wandered
away and died from exposure and starvation, or were cap)tured by the Indians, and after being obliged to endure the
most fiendish and brutal treatment, as well as terrible