Identifier: amongpuebloindia00eick (find matches)
Title: Among the Pueblo Indians
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Eickemeyer, Carl Eickemeyer, Lilian Westcott, joint author
Subjects: Pueblo Indians
Publisher: New York, The Merriam company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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overhang the neighboring hillslike a mantle of gauze, through Avhich the varied tintsshone in subdued coloring and ethereal beauty. We started through Alamo canon, which runs par-allel with White Rock canon, containing the bed ofthe Rio (jrande. The two are divided in places byhigh ledges of rock, the top of which, for about athickness of one hundred feet, is of volcanic origin;and below it are strata of different kinds of rock, sand,and clay, varying from white to light red and blue,with all the intervening shades so perfectly blendedas to make it impossible to detect the Ioining of onecolor with another. The rocks averauc in heightabout three hundred feet, and above them, on the west,towcr the vSan Ildefonso range, where the Indianboys from the pueblo hunt deer and antelope. The trip rip the canon was like driving through apark; the cactus in bloom with its yellow, white andred flowers, and the valley covered with fragrant bal-sam, sage bushes, and clumps of buffalo grass. There 46
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Co San mDefonso. was good shooting all the way, the cotton-tails andwild doves being plentiful, while an occasional jackrabbit ran in and out among the sage bushes, givingus a lively chase for him. About noon we struck camp just off the road. Afterunloading the wagon and setting up the little stove,Juan started up the canon toward the Rio (Grande forwater. He had been gone but a short time when astrange noise was heard. Gradually the sound camenearer, and coming toward us, down the caiion, wasa flock of goats, sheep and lambs, driven by a Mexi-can. The driver could not speak our language norwe his, but by signs he was made to understand thatwe wanted to purchase a lamb, and he seemed verywilling to let us have one. When Juan returned withthe water he played the part of butcher, killing anddressing the lamb and preparing it to be cooked.Soon dinner was on the fire, and in about twentyminutes from the time the lamb was running aroundwe were eating him. Our camp for the night was behind

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