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Title: New Mexico, the land of the delight makers; the history of its ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, The Page company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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^sed by the Penitentes AT Taos ...... A Summer Camp in the Santa Fe National ForestSan Mateo Mountain — also called Mt. TaylorBear Canyon, in the Sandias .... A Goat Ranch in the Lincoln National Forest Santa Fe Lake, Santa Fe National Forest A New Mexico Wild Turkey The Guardian of the Desert (In full color) Palo Verde — Mesquite — Desert Flora A New Mexico Vocalist . The Ocatillo .... 126 130 137 154160 170 178192 •207 /214 ,225 .239245 250262 / 274 , 2S2288 292 307310 318328 332335340344368 394 List of Illustrations xxvii The Sentinels of the Desert — The Mirage — The Snowy Range .....The Pepper Stringers (In full color)A Pueblo Indian Funeral Procession at Isleta 400 Quaken Aspen Grove, Cloudcroft Indian School, Laguna .... The Cathedral of the Desert: Museum and Auditorium, Santa Fe (In full color)Elephant Butte Dam .....Section of the Main Canal, Carlsbad ProjectChurch of San Felipe de Neri PAGE 399 412418 428446448453 An Albuquerque Residential Street . . ., 456 n 1
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NEW MEXICO, THE LAND OFTHE DELIGHT MAKERS CHAPTER I WHY THE LAND OF THE DELIGHT MAKERS To rightly choose a title for any book is generally awork of difficulty, of much earnest search and deep cogi-tation. Yet in this case the title came readily. One ofthe most fascinating books ever written by a deeply seri-ous student of Archaeology is the novel of Adolf Bande-lier — The Delight Makers. In it he builds up for us,—from his intimate knowledge of the documentary history,the wealth of gathered tradition, and his familiarity withthe life of their immediate descendants,— the social, re-ligious, and tribal life of the prehistoric cliff-dwellers, theTyuonyi — that strange race, which much conjecture andguesswork has involved in clouds of deep and impene-trable mystery. Known to the Spanish population as theRito do los Frijoles, it was left for Bandelier to discoverto the world the wealth of cliff-dwellings its canyon wallscontained. They are now visited annually by thousands.To teach

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