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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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CLIFF-DWELLINGS, SOUTHERN COLORADO l6o MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST. the whitewash still on the walls, and its size indicates that the town;once contained a thousand or more people. At the bottom of the
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cliff it was strewn with ruins, evidently fallen from above, and onlyportions of the houses were standing. Professor Powell says of these ruins and people : These cliff- MARVELS OF RACE. l6l houses are usually placed on the most inaccessible cliffs ; sometimesthe mouths of caves have been walled across, and tliere are manyevidences to show their anxiety to secure defensible positions. Prob-ably the nomadic tribes were sweeping down upon them, and theyresorted to these cliffs and caves for safety. Mr. Crofutt remarks : The cliffs, on which are to be found manystone buildings, as shown in the illustration, are of all sizes anddimensions, varying in height from a few feet to over one thousandfive hundred feet. They are scattered along the sides of the canons,sometimes only a few feet from the main walls, and in others severalhundred yards away — isolated buttes. We are of thfe opinion theywere all, at one time, a portion of the cafion walls, but by the actionof the eroding elements for

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