Identifier: newmexicolandofd00jamerich (find matches)
Title: New Mexico, the land of the delight makers : the history of its ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Franciscan missions; personal accounts of the ceremonies, games, social life and industries of its Indians; a description of its climate, geology, flora and birds, its rivers and forests; a review of its rapid development, land-reclamation projects and educational system; with full and accurate account of its progressive counties, cities and towns
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: New Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : The Page company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ither live or used to live upon theirlevel wind-swept areas. Black Mesa, on the Rio Grande,is historic, for here great battles were fought betweenSpaniard and Pueblo, and the Mesa Encantada — Kat-zimo — the Enchanted Mesa, has become famous theworld over owing to the controversies that have ragedabout it. Tucumcari is named after a rocky mesanearby, which used to be one of the retreating placesof the Apaches. New Mexico has been a great land of controversy, amental battle ground, where doughty champions of manykinds have fought, won, or been worsted in the defenseof their ideas. A score of combatants have contendedfor their rendition of the route of Coronado; almost asmany have fought as to which city was the one ofthe Seven Cities of Cibola where Stephen the negrolost his life. We have argued, and possibly will con-tinue to argue, as to whether the Franciscans really bene-fited the Indians or not; and in recent numbers of OldSanta Fe hot and bitter controversy has raged over such
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By Way of Foreword xi questions as to whether the friars had complete biblesor not. To this day it is hard to tell whether GeneralCarleton was efficient or not; and who can sort out, fromthe mass of conflicting opinion, whether the Apaches andNavahos were fiends incarnate or noble aborigineswho have been fearfully wronged by the white man.The question is not settled yet as to whether the TexasExpedition to Santa Fe in 1841 was an unwarrantableand indefensible attempt to seize territory from a friendlyrepublic, or an honest attempt to meet the wishes of manypeople of New Mexico who desired to sever their relation-ship with Mexico. Scores of pages have been written toprove that Cabeza de Vaca went into New Mexico, andthat Santa Fe is the oldest city in the United States.Even the location of the room in El Palacio, in Santa Fe,in which Lew Wallace wrote Ben Hur has been a matterof controversy, and the loud words in the bitter discussionas to whether Katzimo,— the Enchanted Mesa,— was

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