" Just here Jerry gave one of his peculiar chuckles; and, seeing that I got but little information from the boy, I dismissed him with the remark, that, when we got to Tucson, he should have a suit of clothes.

A ride of eight miles brought us to the town of Tucson, through which our wagons passed to the Pico Chico Mountain, five miles beyond, where we made our camp.

The boys and myself spent several hours in Tucson, looking about the town, and its many curiosities, being especially interested in several half-naked, dirty Apaches, which were lounging about, with large nuggets of gold tied up in their filthy rags.

Tucson is located in the heart of the great silver and gold bearing regions of Arizona, and it was exceedingly difficult to prevent the boys from loading themselves with specimens of the many ores offered for sale, by every loafer, greaser, and Indian, that we met on the street.

I afterwards learned from Ned, that, ever since the boy had become the owner of a buckskin suit, he imagined that it little comported with the dignity of a person who could sport "sich an illegant suit, to ride in wagins, or walk afoot, whin he ought to ride on horseback, like a gintilmon;" promising, that, if Hal would procure him a mule in Tucson, he would pay him double price on reaching California.

The old pueblo of Tucson contained probably three hundred Mexicans, Indians, and half breeds.

The Apaches did not trouble us any more, and after crossing high mountains and wide valleys we arrived on the Santa Cruz River, and camped at the old Mission Church of San Xavier del Bac. Three leagues north of the Mission Church of San Xavier del Bac (Bac means water) is located the ancient and honorable pueblo of Tucson.

The Spaniards, from this experience, remembering the island of Colchis, named the place Tucson,Jason in Spanish.

The patron saint of Tucson is San Augustine, and as it was now the last of August the fiesta in honor of her patron saint was being celebrated.

There were not more than a dozen Americans in the pueblo of Tucson when we arrived, and they were not Methodist preachers.

The records of this primitive period are on file in the Recorder's office of the Pueblo of Tucson, Pima County.

I never saw nor conversed with any of the leaders, but a detachment came up the Gila River to Tucson and Tubac, enlisting recruits, but could only raise twenty-five or thirty men.

Gabilonda, who was the only Mexican officer who protested against the massacre, came very near being mobbed by Americans in Tucson, although he was perfectly innocent of any crime,on the contrary, deserved credit for his humanity in rescuing the boy Evans.

They built a house and corral on the south side of the Santa Cruz River, on the road from Tucson to Tubac, called the Canoa.

One day twenty-five or thirty Mexicans rode into Tubac, and said the Apaches had made a raid on their ranches, and were carrying off some hundred head of horses and mules over the Babaquivera plain, intending to cross the Santa Cruz River between the Canoa and Tucson.

The Mexicans made a fair division, and the mule trade was lively with the lumbermen and the merchants in Tucson.

The women and children were escorted to the old pueblo of Tucson, where the few people remaining in the Territory were concentrated; and they remained there in a miserable condition until the troops arrived from California under General James A. Carlton, United States Army, commonly called "Carlton's Column.

" The next place for the distribution of Indian goods was at the Mission of San Xavier del Bac, three leagues south of Tucson, among the Papagos, a christianized branch of the great Pima tribe.

It was 100 miles to Tucson, and 280 miles to Yuma, and not a soul nor any provisions between the two places.

To Fred Woodworth of Tucson, Arizona, the series book world owes a debt that can never be repaid.

Life in old Tucson, 1854-1864.

Life in old Tucson, 1854-1864.

Ridin' the rainbow; father's life in Tucson.

This Tucson is an ancient city, having been founded by the Jesuits in 1560 A.D.

A gentleman who entered the train at Tucson gave me many instances of this.