Identifier: n07elpalacio12archuoft (find matches)
Title: El Palacio
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Archaeological Society of New Mexico Museum of New Mexico School of American Research (Santa Fe, N.M.)
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Publisher: Santa Fe, N.M
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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very easily recognizable.Prowers says he recalls the massive gatehere hung. This fort was much largerthan the firál and was built of alone, muchof which, so Prowers says, was dressedwell and has been hauled away. This¡s in evidence m numerous ranch housesnear by. Here also is another granitemarker, although there is none at oídFort Lyons near which, perhaps 500feet, the Trail also passes. Bent muát have expended a lot ofmoney in the conélruítion of this secondventure. The site is unique and wellchosen, as a cliff rising perhaps 40 feethigh, forms the south boundary of thefort as well as the north of the river, andone cannot descend this. Prowers couldnot tell me the date of the eredion of thislatter fort here in the big timber country—cottonwood trees, and huge ones, for-merly extending from near Las Animas toLámar- then litlle growth for miles be-low. Mr. Prowers has a valuable souvenir- Kit Carsons gold ring—a very largeone—hugeinfad with a signet, plain, 94 EL PALACIO
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U RS OQ V oU O z Q< :^uO a: en OQ on which, he said, was inscribed C. C,but now loáí. I, perhaps rudely, askedif I could buy the ring- but naturally theowner does r.ot care to part with it. Kitgave it to ihc eider Prowers. The beál I could do was to wear it for awhi!e. Iwonder where ihis ring was made andwho gave it to Carson? It really is ofunusual size and weight aíter years ofwear. EL PALACIO 95 Pueblo Poetry The late Nataüe Curlis in The Freeman, January 25, 1922. I he comparatively recent discovery ofNew México by artists and wnters isgiving rise to a new type of Americanhterature, a literalure that is slimulatedby the strongly marked individuality ofthe oíd Spanish city of Santa Fe, theCity of the Holy Faith, founded on thesite of an Indian pueblo before ever thepilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock.High in the Rocky Mountains the peo-ple of Santa Fe have dwelt these threehundred years, surrounded by the ruinsof a prehistoric Indian culture. Theironly neigKbcurs are the i

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