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.

COGHISE AGAIN.
guide, Cochise, was elected principal chief, which position he
held until his death in 1874.
It has been asserted, that, before accepting the mantle of
Mangus Colorado, he was required to take an Indian oath,
that, for every Apache so despicably murdered in Fort McLane, a hundred white men should die, - an oath which has
been most religiously kept.
Acting under his directions, the Apaches immediately separated into small bands, rendezvousing in the most inaccessible
portions of the almost impenetrable mountain fastnesses so
peculiar to this portion of the country. From these "lairs"
they swooped down upon travellers, or raided upon the settlers, killing, burning, and destroying, seemingly actuated by
one motive, viz., the destruction of the entire white race.
It is a somewhat singular coincidence, that not alone Mangus Colorado, but his immediate predecessor, should have met
his death through treachery on the part of Americans. Such
is nevertheless the fact, and serves to account in some manner for the terrible revenge taken by the tribe subsequent to
the cowardly murder at Fort McLane.
The circumstances were these: In the year 1837, the government of Chihuahua, in order to put a stop to Apache
depredations in that state, issued what was called a Proyecto
de Guerra,* fixing a scale of prices to be paid by the government for Apache scalps, also declaring that any booty taken
* Proclamation of war.
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