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.

DIABOLICAL OUTRAG.E.
seventeen or eighteen years of age, smart and energetic; the
next a girl, about sixteen, who drove one of the wagons,
while the mother drove the other. They expected to reach
Tucson in about a week, where they intended to recruit their
teams and wait for company, before going on to San Diego.
Two days later the conductor on the stage from Tucson
reported that just beyond the mouth of the canion they had
found the remnants of two wagons, with the dead an(l
mutilated bodies of Frazier and his son tied to the wheels
and partially burned. Everything of value had been carried
off, even to the iron about the wagons. The fate of the
mother and children was never known.
Major De Rythe sent out the next morning for the remains of the unfortunate men, but no effort was made to
capture and punish the murderers or retake the captives.
I have no doubt myself but that the same band of Indians
who were visiting us each day, smoking our tobacco and
drinking our whiskey, were the parties who committed the
murder; and yet we were powerless to revenge the injury.
This outrage, in some particulars, resembles that of the
Oatman family, the facts of which I will give as I learned
them from one familiar with the details of the atrocious
transaction, merely for the purpose of showing the brutality
and diabolical cruelty with which the Apaches always treat
those who fall into their clutches.
On the 11th of March, 1851, Mr. Royse Oatman, with
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