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 TERRIBLE SCOURGE.
Otherwise they fight bravely and desperately. In no portion of our country have the settlers upon the frontier
suffered so severely as in Arizona. There is scarcely a
mile on any road in the Territory where the traveller
is not pointed out some spot which the Apaches have consecrated with the blood of a victim; nor is there a family
that has not suffered in some manner from their depredationis.
There were formerly three principal war-chiefs of the
tribe, under whose directions all hostile parties were marshalled: Mangus Colorado, Cochise, and Delgadito. Of
these three, the only one now living, who exercises any
control over them, is Cochise, of the Pinal tribe, which
a few years ago was the only recognized tribe, but which
has since been divided into several bands.
For more than four centuries these pests of the country
have scourged northern Mexico and Arizona, and nothing
has been sacred from them. Nor call anything ever prosper
in a country that they itllabit. They have desolated Sonora
and( Arizona, which latter place, ill 1860, had a popula:ltion
of thirty-four thousand, while in 1870 it hatd less tlitin ten
thbousand.
At the time of my residence in the Territory, iii'58,'59,
and'60, the Apaches were generally regarded as being, at
peace with the white man; and during these three years
there were probably fewer outrages committed than during
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