. To California and back; . of irrigated land here you are that much-vaunted but seldom-encountered individual, anindependent farmer. You may smile in asuperior way when you hear talk of the profitsof bank stock. You may look without envyupon the man who is said to own a gold by the way are sleepy Mexican vil-lages, ancient Indian pueblos, still inhabited,and those older abandoned ruins which give tothe region its peculiar atmosphere of history of New Mexico formerly beganwith a pretty legend that dated back to a timein Spain when a sovereign fighting amid hisnative
. To California and back; . of irrigated land here you are that much-vaunted but seldom-encountered individual, anindependent farmer. You may smile in asuperior way when you hear talk of the profitsof bank stock. You may look without envyupon the man who is said to own a gold by the way are sleepy Mexican vil-lages, ancient Indian pueblos, still inhabited,and those older abandoned ruins which give tothe region its peculiar atmosphere of history of New Mexico formerly beganwith a pretty legend that dated back to a timein Spain when a sovereign fighting amid hisnative mountains found himself hemmed in bythe enemy, and would have perished with allhis army had not one of his enterprising sol-diers discovered an unsuspected pass, the en-trance to which he marked with a bleachedcows skull that lay convenient to his hand, andthen returning led a retreat through the passto safety. By order of the grateful king thefamily name of the soldier was thereupon madeCabeza de Vaca—cows head — to ce
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