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 OF COCHISE.
mitted to be removed to a reservation selected for them in
the southern portion of the Territory, where they remain to
the present time, subdued but not conquered, a constant
source of trouble to the Government, requiring the greatest
vigilance to prevent them from forsaking their reservation,
and continuing their raids in force, upon the people of the
Territory as well as upon those of the Mexican States of
Chihuahua and Sonora, that for so many years have been the
scene of their frequent and successful forays.
It was in June, 1874, that Cochise died. He did not
meet death upon the battlefield where he had so often sought
it, surrounded by his trusty warriors, in the full possession of
savage pride and barbarous authority; nor was the last
sound that fell upon his ears the ringing war-whoop that had
so often carried consternation and death to the hated white
race; but shorn of strength and power, humiliated by defeat, crippled by old age, and racked by the torments of
inflammatory rheumatism, he lay for months upon his couch of
bear-skins, unable to move hand or foot; a prey to torture
more acute than even his devilish ingenuity had ever devised
for the scores of victims who had perished by his hand, and
who he imagined, in his last moments, were standing beside
him, and inflicting upon him the agonizing tortures he suffered.
Thus died, at the age of nearly seventy years, one of the
most remarkable characters of modern times, whose name
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