What to see in America . ticle of barter with theIndians, who exchanged their buffalo robes and other valuablefurs for it at a tremendous sacrifice. Kit Carson lived atTaos from 1854 to 1860, and, in accord with his desire, hewas buried in the Taos Cemetery after his death. Twenty miles east of Santa Fe are the ruins of Pecos, thelargest place in what is now the United States when visitedby the Spaniards in 1540. It was a walled city whose in-habitants were self-reliant and warlike. Pueblo civilizationhad here its eastern outpost, and the place was exposedto attack by the Plains tribes. Not fa
What to see in America . ticle of barter with theIndians, who exchanged their buffalo robes and other valuablefurs for it at a tremendous sacrifice. Kit Carson lived atTaos from 1854 to 1860, and, in accord with his desire, hewas buried in the Taos Cemetery after his death. Twenty miles east of Santa Fe are the ruins of Pecos, thelargest place in what is now the United States when visitedby the Spaniards in 1540. It was a walled city whose in-habitants were self-reliant and warlike. Pueblo civilizationhad here its eastern outpost, and the place was exposedto attack by the Plains tribes. Not far from Pecos is LasVegas, which has won favor as a pleasure and health are about forty hot springs, which afford opportunitiesfor both mud baths and water baths, as well as for drinking. The states largest city is Albuquerque, with a brisktrade in wool and hides. Near it is the importantpueblo of Isleta, and farther west is the pueblo of La-guna. There are at least a score of the many-chambered New Mexico 435. communal pueblos in the state,and their inhabitants own morethan a million acres of is particularly interest-ing and accessible. But themost remarkable of all is Acoma,which is eighteen miles south ofLaguna. The name meansPeople of the White is on an isolated mesawith precipitous walls of graysandstone that rise to a heightof three hundred and fifty feetabove the plain. It is the oldestcontinuously inhabited settle-ment in the United States. Theearly chronicles say it was thehome of a people feared by theresidents of the whole country around as robbers. Its loca-tion rendered it well-nigh impregnable, for the only meansof approaching it was by climbing up an easily guardedcleft in the rock. The Acomas welcomed the soldiers ofCoronado in 1540 with deference, ascribing to them celestialorigin; but later, after becoming aware of their distinctlyhuman character, they slew a dozen of them. By way ofreprisal seventy of the Spaniards attacked t
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