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.

GEN. CROOK.
tected, he seized his advantage with a comprehension that
was indeed surprising to all.
Shortly after the close of our Civil War, Brig.-Gen. George
Crook was appointed to the command of the military department in Arizona, and immediately took the field in person
against this most redoubtable chief, whose desperate daring,
shrewd cunning, and diabolical cruelty, have fairly and
honestly earned for him the reputation of being the bravest
as well as most sagacious and barbarous Indian chief that
has lived upon American soil within the past two centuries.
Although an experienced Indian fighter, Gen. Crook found
it impossible to properly garrison, with the small force at his
command, the vast extent of country over which the
Apaches roamed; while the arid and barren nature of the
soil, together with its peculiar configuration, enabled his
wary adversary to render fiutile every aggressive movement
against him. Gen. Crook persevered, however, in the face of
the greatest difficulties, for years, resorting to every means in
his power to rid the country of the scourge which for so many
centuries had devastated its thriving settlements, ruined its
industries, and depleted its population.
Cochise ever refused to entertain any proposition looking
toward a cessation of hostilities; and it was only after long
continued ill health and old age incapacitated him from
longer leading his warriors in person, that he reluctantly
assented to a peace, and, with the remnant of his band, sub
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