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Identifier: marvelsofnewwest1889thay (find matches)
Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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of them are on the Hne of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway, ornear by it, viz. : Taos, Picario, San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso,Pojungue, Irambe, Cuyamanque, and Tesugue. Cortez found them MARVELS OF RACE. 175 here three hundred and fifty years ago, much more civilized than thenomadic tribes around them, as they are to-day. They cultivate the If
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iii^iiiiiiiiiiiilifcilM soil and live in fortified towns or villages, as represented by the ill ustration. Their dwellings are made of adobes. The cut gives an 1/6 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST. excellent view of the Laguna pueblo, in which the presence of laddersindicates to the reader that the dwellings are entered at the top.Adobes make impregnable walls. In the Mexican War, GeneralScott said that the ordinary adobe house was a pretty good fortress.Entering them at the top, and then hauling up the ladders, furnishedinhabitants with the best security against their enemies. Generally a square, or plaza, is found in the centre of the pueblos,the habitation being built around it. All pueblos are very muchalike. The walls of the buildings are from two to four feet thick,and the roofs are constructed of timbers covered with dirt a foot ormore thick. One who has examined them closely says: * Manyhouses are two, and some even four and five stories, or rather ter-races, in height, each successive

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