. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . peopled the east-ern portions of North America. ThePueblo Indians had abandoned the no-madic or wandering habits and lived inwhat may be called a communal habita-tion, a town so to speak, in one was primitive, flat life, if one may bor-row a present day term and apply it topast times. Pueblos were built of stone,but oftener of adobe or sun-dried were several stories high, each story-being built back from the front of the one as to permit the inhabitants to obtain aview
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . peopled the east-ern portions of North America. ThePueblo Indians had abandoned the no-madic or wandering habits and lived inwhat may be called a communal habita-tion, a town so to speak, in one was primitive, flat life, if one may bor-row a present day term and apply it topast times. Pueblos were built of stone,but oftener of adobe or sun-dried were several stories high, each story-being built back from the front of the one as to permit the inhabitants to obtain aview of the surrounding territory andthus render the stealthy approach of anenemy impossible. They were oftenarranged so as to surround three sidesof a court and the ground floor hadno doors or windows. Ladders were native tradition, for which Mr. C. F. Lum-mis is authority, so says Mr. C. A. Hig-gins, writing for the Santa Fe, the orig-inal pueblo of Acoma stood upon the crestof the Enchanted Mesa, 430 ft. above thevalley. Its only approach was one day de-stroyed by the falling of a cliff, and three. \KiKl IUKBLO OF WOLPI ON THE SANTA IE ROUTE. used to enter the pueblo, which was doneover the roofs of the lower tier of dwell-ings and these ladders were then drawnup and entrance to the lower dwellingswas effected through trap doors. The idea in the location and design ofthe pueblo was that of community life,with the most effective means of such building frequently housed awhole tribe. The form of governmentadopted by these Indians was peculiar tothem, each village or pueblo electing agovernor and council. Thev cultivated
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