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.

A SILVER BULLET.
over a broken and rocky country, he deliberately scalped his
victim, and throwing the bleeding, mutilated body to the
ground, flaunted the ghastly trophy he had secured in the
very face of his pursuers, and with a shout of triumph and
derision disappeared in one of the mountain defiles without
the loss of a man.
A large reward was immediately offered for the capture of
the murderer dead or alive; and a small army of fir(ontiersmen, actuated as much by a desire for revenge as by a hope
of obtaining the promised guerdon, took the field in pursuit
of the daring murderer.
Cochise found no difficulty in evading their cleverly-laid
schemes for his capture, continuing his work of rapine and
murder so successfully, that the superstitious began to believe
him protected by the foul fiend himself. The most expert
marksmen, men whose rifles had never been known to miss
before, shot wide of the mark when aimed point blank at
Cochise; and some of the best scouts in the country did not
hesitate to assert that "nothing but a silver bullet would
ever kill him."
Most frontiersmen are advocates of the doctrine of destiny;
and so generally was this assertion believed, that it was no
unusual thing for "good marksmen" to refuse to fire at him.
Aware of the fact that our Government was engaged in a
struggle for its own existence, and realizing that it must of
necessity permit its frontiers to remain in a measure unpro
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