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The Marvellous Country: Or, Three Years in Arizona and New Mexico
by Samuel Woodworth Cozzens
Samuel Woodworth Cozzens
The Marvellous Country: Or, Three Years in Arizona and New Mexico
by Samuel Woodworth Cozzens
Samuel Woodworth Cozzens
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"Cozzens...whilst among the savages...witnessed...a dance by women around the bleeding scalps of prisoners killed by the Apaches." -Reynolds Newspaper, Jan. 3, 1875
"Cozzens tells of...under the guidance of Chief Cochise...being guided...into rough country where he found the wild Apaches in an undisturbed state...met the great Mangas Coloradas, chief of the Mimbreno Apaches...stirred the pioneer blood within me." -Arizona Republic, Feb. 18, 1951
"The Marvellous Country...had a tremendous impact because of its promise of a land of vast opportunities...plan was made to organize a colony...their flagstaff stood for some years...the name was applied to the town." -Arizona Daily Sun, March 31, 1980
"The Apaches are still the terror of the entire region, spreading misery and horror for scores or hundreds of miles. Mr. Cozzens nevertheless ventured to visit them in their home, of which he gives a full and very graphic description." - The Saturday Review 1875
In his 1875 book "The Marvellous Country," Samuel Woodworth Cozzens narrates his time among the Apaches in the late 1850s while exploring Arizona.
As he relates, "I first met Cochise at the 'Apache Pass,' a narrow gorge through the Chiricahui Mountains, and through which pass ran the only road connecting the settlements on the Rio Grande with Tucson and Port Yuma.
"At the time of my residence in the Territory, in '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 any one year before or since. An overland mail coach was occasionally attacked, or an emigrant party massacred, and all the animals that could be stolen were driven off. Still these years were regarded as quiet ones. And thus I was enabled to pursue my explorations in the Territory with but little annoyance during that time, especially as the since renowned Cochise was persuaded to act as my guide through portions of the Apache country rarely pressed by the foot of a white man."
According to Mr. Cozzens, the Jesuit missionaries first made their way into this not easily accessible country, and, finding there a friendly people and vast stores of silver, drew after them the tide, not of Spanish conquest, but of Spanish trade. The natives fell tinder the missionary influence much as did those of Paraguay, and were willing to dig silver for their teachers. But in course of time the Spaniards provoked a collision with the fierce Apaches, and, being by them debarred from access to the mines, deserted the country, leaving their unwarlike subjects at the mercy of the savage intruders, by whose ferocious raids Arizona has been well nigh desolated.
The Apaches were still the terror of the entire region. They had closed the wealthiest mines, and forbade access to them; they made savage raids both on American settlers and Mexican neighbours. Mr. Cozzens nevertheless ventured to visit them in their home, of which he gives a full and very graphic description, and returned in perfect safety. The fertile valley in which the lodges of the Apaches were scattered present a striking contrast to that broken ground of rock, cleft, canyon, and valley which forms the greater part of Arizona, and which renders its scenery as wild, strange, and unlike anything else on earth as that which we have had occasion briefly to depict in speaking of the Colorado and Yellowstone rivers.
In describing a fall off an 800 foot cliff, which resulted in his experiencing a "near death experience" Cozzens writes:
"I was aware that we were standing upon a narrow shelf scarcely twelve inches in width, although eight hundred feet above the plain. Stepping upon a small stone which rolled under my foot, before I could possibly recover myself I was precipitated over the bluff, and in a moment found myself sliding down its almost perpendicular side, feet foremost...."
The author's adventures among the fierce Apaches, the quiet Zunis, and other inhabitants of this unparalleled region, if somewhat flippantly told, are both interesting and amusing.
About the author:
Samuel Woodworth Cozzens was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, 14 April, 1834; died in Thomaston, Georgia, 4 November, 1878. He was a lawyer who spent three years exploring the Arizona, then was appointed judge of the first judicial district of a provisional government organized April 2, 1860, for Southern New Mexico then including Arizona.
"Cozzens tells of...under the guidance of Chief Cochise...being guided...into rough country where he found the wild Apaches in an undisturbed state...met the great Mangas Coloradas, chief of the Mimbreno Apaches...stirred the pioneer blood within me." -Arizona Republic, Feb. 18, 1951
"The Marvellous Country...had a tremendous impact because of its promise of a land of vast opportunities...plan was made to organize a colony...their flagstaff stood for some years...the name was applied to the town." -Arizona Daily Sun, March 31, 1980
"The Apaches are still the terror of the entire region, spreading misery and horror for scores or hundreds of miles. Mr. Cozzens nevertheless ventured to visit them in their home, of which he gives a full and very graphic description." - The Saturday Review 1875
In his 1875 book "The Marvellous Country," Samuel Woodworth Cozzens narrates his time among the Apaches in the late 1850s while exploring Arizona.
As he relates, "I first met Cochise at the 'Apache Pass,' a narrow gorge through the Chiricahui Mountains, and through which pass ran the only road connecting the settlements on the Rio Grande with Tucson and Port Yuma.
"At the time of my residence in the Territory, in '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 any one year before or since. An overland mail coach was occasionally attacked, or an emigrant party massacred, and all the animals that could be stolen were driven off. Still these years were regarded as quiet ones. And thus I was enabled to pursue my explorations in the Territory with but little annoyance during that time, especially as the since renowned Cochise was persuaded to act as my guide through portions of the Apache country rarely pressed by the foot of a white man."
According to Mr. Cozzens, the Jesuit missionaries first made their way into this not easily accessible country, and, finding there a friendly people and vast stores of silver, drew after them the tide, not of Spanish conquest, but of Spanish trade. The natives fell tinder the missionary influence much as did those of Paraguay, and were willing to dig silver for their teachers. But in course of time the Spaniards provoked a collision with the fierce Apaches, and, being by them debarred from access to the mines, deserted the country, leaving their unwarlike subjects at the mercy of the savage intruders, by whose ferocious raids Arizona has been well nigh desolated.
The Apaches were still the terror of the entire region. They had closed the wealthiest mines, and forbade access to them; they made savage raids both on American settlers and Mexican neighbours. Mr. Cozzens nevertheless ventured to visit them in their home, of which he gives a full and very graphic description, and returned in perfect safety. The fertile valley in which the lodges of the Apaches were scattered present a striking contrast to that broken ground of rock, cleft, canyon, and valley which forms the greater part of Arizona, and which renders its scenery as wild, strange, and unlike anything else on earth as that which we have had occasion briefly to depict in speaking of the Colorado and Yellowstone rivers.
In describing a fall off an 800 foot cliff, which resulted in his experiencing a "near death experience" Cozzens writes:
"I was aware that we were standing upon a narrow shelf scarcely twelve inches in width, although eight hundred feet above the plain. Stepping upon a small stone which rolled under my foot, before I could possibly recover myself I was precipitated over the bluff, and in a moment found myself sliding down its almost perpendicular side, feet foremost...."
The author's adventures among the fierce Apaches, the quiet Zunis, and other inhabitants of this unparalleled region, if somewhat flippantly told, are both interesting and amusing.
About the author:
Samuel Woodworth Cozzens was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, 14 April, 1834; died in Thomaston, Georgia, 4 November, 1878. He was a lawyer who spent three years exploring the Arizona, then was appointed judge of the first judicial district of a provisional government organized April 2, 1860, for Southern New Mexico then including Arizona.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940186349884 |
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| Publisher: | Far West Travel Adventure |
| Publication date: | 07/17/2022 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 6 MB |
About the Author
Samuel Woodworth Cozzens was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, 14 April, 1834; died in Thomaston, Georgia, 4 November, 1878. He was a lawyer who spent three years exploring the Arizona, then was appointed judge of the first judicial district of a provisional government organized April 2, 1860, for Southern New Mexico then including Arizona.
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