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 BRAVE MISS 0 URIAN.
man had with him seven daughters, ranging all the way
from thirteen to thirty years of age, and was going out to
make a home on the Calabasas, where he' had a son living.
He was a fine, athletic-looking person, and was thoroughly
imbued with the idea that he had just as much right to live
in this country as the cowardly Apaches.
"And," said the old man, as he straightened himself up,
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alnd significantly tapped his rifle, "I'm d-d if I don't do
it!"'
Some months later, when in Tucson, a woman named
Paige was brought into the town, who had been found in
the mountains by a party of soldiers under Captain Ewell,
since a major-general in the Rebel service. I went to see
her at the fonda, where she was carried, and such a pitiatble
sight I hope never to see again. Naturally a good-sized
woman, she was now wasted to a mere skeleton. Such a
picture of starvation can never be portrayed by language.
The glaring, hungry eyes, the sunken temples, the lips
drawn so tightly over the jaw that each tooth could be easily
counted through them, the arms scarcely larger than a man's
thumb, and the continuous cry for food, was a spectacle to
fill one with horror. I saw her a few hours later, and to
my surprise she recolgnized me, and spoke of our meeting
on the Rio Grande, near Valverde. I then learned that
she was one of old Pennington's daughters, and had
married a man named Paige, living nealr Tubac.
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