The Marvelous Country, or Three Years in Arizona and New Mexico

Cozzens’s descriptions are, as we might expect, stretched beyond modern calculations, but there is wit and wisdom hidden amidst the laughter. For Tucsonans, his two-sentence description of their fair city 150 or so years ago is an eye-opener: “Tucson, at this time, was the capital of the Territory, with a population of about six hundred inhabitants, nearly one-half of which were Mexicans, the balance consisting of a mixture of Apaches, Pimos [sic], Papagoes [sic], and cut-throats. Probably never before in the history of any country were gathered within the walls of a city such a complete assortment of horse-thieves, gamblers, murderers, vagrants, and villains, as were to be found [here].” --W. David Laird.

Cozzens, Samuel Woodworth

Boston : Shepherd and Gill, 1873.

1873

310 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

eng

book

C9791 C88 1890 Sp Coll