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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.
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er surfacewas coated by this cement and is hard and smooth to-day. The ruinis now but fifty by thirty feet and will soon be a mere mound. Inthe vicinity there is an irrigating canal which has been followed tothe Gila, forty miles distant. This proves that an immense body ofland was cultivated by this people. In all parts of the Territory areruins of a similar character, though many are of stone. It is impos-sible to say positively just who those people were and where theywent. The cliff-dwellers disappeared, and then came the men who dugthe irrigating canals. It is highly probable that this semi-civilizedpeople were driven out by the marauding Apaches whom the Span-iards found in Arizona. We only know that the three races hadmade this their home ere the Spaniards came. Pueblo is the Spanish name for town or village. There aretwenty-six of these Indian pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona, nine-teen of them in the former Territory and seven in the latter. Nine 174 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST,
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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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