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.

FATE OF MANGUS COLORADO.
indignities, were cruelly and barbarously tortured to death.
In either event, death must have been a most welcome
relief from their sufferings.
Let us hope that this unfortunate family, whose history I
have related in these chapters, have all crossed the deep
waters in safety, and are, at last, reunited on that "shiling
shore," where partings are unknown, where the "wicked
cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest."
But little more than two years after the incidents narrated
in this work occurred, Mangus Colorado, the chief of all
the Apaches, was invited to visit Fort McLane, a United
States military post, near the head waters of the Rio Mimbres, for the purpose of making a treaty and receiving
presents. He came with four sub-chiefs in all the pomp of
savage royalty; gayly decorated with eagles' feathers and
brass ornaments, and gaudily painted in vermilion and
ochre.
Upon reaching the fort, the party were treacherously
seized and imprisoned in the guard-house; during, the night
the sentry purposely unfastened their prison door, and as the
chief and his companions were endeavoring to avail themselves of the means of escape thus voluntarily offered, they
were deliberately shot down by the soldiers in the fort, who
had been stationed for that purpose.
The base and treacherous cruelty of this act roused the
whole Apache tribe to vengeance. My old friend and
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