What to see in America . The Enchanted Mesa New Mexico 437 southwest Indian pueblos. It is on an open plain nearThunder Mountain. The adobe houses, built in communalfashion, rise in some instances five stories high. The peopleare noted as pottery makers, yarn spinners, and turquoisedrillers. Their ceremonial dances are Zufii is the precipitous-sided mesa of Toyalane to whichthe Indians of Zuni and of six other pueblo cities inhabitedby the tribe fled when they feared invasion. There theysometimes remained for many years while their abandonedpueblos fell to ruins. The pueblo
What to see in America . The Enchanted Mesa New Mexico 437 southwest Indian pueblos. It is on an open plain nearThunder Mountain. The adobe houses, built in communalfashion, rise in some instances five stories high. The peopleare noted as pottery makers, yarn spinners, and turquoisedrillers. Their ceremonial dances are Zufii is the precipitous-sided mesa of Toyalane to whichthe Indians of Zuni and of six other pueblo cities inhabitedby the tribe fled when they feared invasion. There theysometimes remained for many years while their abandonedpueblos fell to ruins. The pueblo of Zufii is forty milessouth of Gallup, which is also the starting point for making atrip across the Painted Desert, seventy miles, to Chico,where is the largest group of prehistoric stone houses in Navajo l^DiA^s on the Rim oi ruK Ukand Canyon XLVI Arizona Arizona is an Indian word which means Sand Hills, butthe Arizonans prefer to have you think of the state as Sun-set Land. Only seven per cent of its area is privatelyowned. The remainder is public land, Indian reservations,and National Forests. Arizona leads all the other states inthe production of copper. The states largest city and itsfirst permanent settlement is Tucson, a quaint Spanish-looking place founded about 1695. A few miles to the southof Tucson is an old mission church, erected at the same time,in which services are said never to have ceased. The climate of Arizona varies from that of the hot regionnear Yuma to that of the cold forested mountains and highplateaus. In the more elevated portions the rainfall is 438 Arizona 439 scanty, and about sixty per cent of the days are , which is in the southwestern corner of the state onlyseven miles from the Mexican frontier, was established bySpanish missionar
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