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.

CHAPTER V.
T was noon the next day be
<-~pa~rk~r + fore our little party was ready
~ ~ ~~ <11 to start on the tiril through
the Sacrtmento Mountains.
.We decided to take the road
4(,' ~'~to Fort Stanton, then located
in that range, as l)ei ig the
best point from which to
sturt for the rtuins, of whi-ch
we had heard so much, and
that so few Americans had ever visited. A short journey'
ilp the beautiful valley of the Tularosa, and Dr. Parkler met
us with as fine a string of speckled trout as I ever saw
caught, even in the streams of New Enrgland, or the wilds
of Lake Superior. A few miles farther on, and our guide
(pointing to an opening hilgh up on the side of the mountain, which was sparsely covered with balsam and fir trees,
Go)vei which a fire had passed some two or three years before
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