SERIES: Pictorial History of the United States and Territories
SCENES: General Miles Attacking the Forces of Geronimo in the Mountain Passes, 1890; Spanish Explorers Discovering Cave Dwellings, 1540.
SIZE: 3" x 5"
DATE: 1892
LITHOGRAPHER: Donaldson Brothers, N.Y.
CONDITION: Good to very good, I'd say. This card is only lightly soiled with somewhat worn edges and rounded corners. There are small creases across the upper left and lower right corners, along with a tiny tear in the top margin. (Please see scans.)
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REVERSE TEXT: ARIZONA.
ALL over the great territory of Arizona are the fortresses and cliff-dwellings, the mines and terraces, and the great system of canals, which belonged to the partly-civilized people who dwelt there seven or eight centuries ago. The cliff-houses of the Rio d'Chelly and the cañons of the Colorado still present their problems to the antiquaries, some of whom believed the early Arizonians to have been of the Pueblo stock, while others trace them to the Aztecs. The modern discoverers of Arizona were an Italian monk, Fray Marcos de Neza, a former companion of Pizarra in Peru, and Estevanico, a freed African slave. In 1589 these two went northward from Culican and reached the Gila Valley. In 1687, and later, Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries did great work in this heathen land and founded many towns; but the civilization which arose in their train vanished before the forays of the pitiless Apache warriors. During the Mexican war, in 1847, General S. W. Kearny marched his command through the Gila Valley and first brought this country to the notice of Americans. Between 1864 and 1876 Indians massacred more than 1,000 whites in Arizona. As late as 1882 or 1883 the Apaches left their reservations and murdered many citizens of the Gila Valley. They finally took refuge in the Sierra Madre, where General Crook, acting by arrangement with the Mexican Government, defeated them. Another foray occurred in 1885 and 1886, when Geronimo killed fifty persons before General Miles captured the red warriors in the mountains of Sonora.
