On the trail of a Spanish pioneer; the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garcés (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776; translated from an official contemporaneous copy of the original Spanish manuscript, and ed., with copious critical notes . ings, the irrigatingcanals, and the vast quantities of pottery of a superior quality,show that, while they were an agricultural people, they weremuch in advance of the present semi-civilized tribes of theGila. As Bartlett says, the origin of these and of other noteworthypueblo ruins scattered over the entire
On the trail of a Spanish pioneer; the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garcés (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776; translated from an official contemporaneous copy of the original Spanish manuscript, and ed., with copious critical notes . ings, the irrigatingcanals, and the vast quantities of pottery of a superior quality,show that, while they were an agricultural people, they weremuch in advance of the present semi-civilized tribes of theGila. As Bartlett says, the origin of these and of other noteworthypueblo ruins scattered over the entire Gila-Salado-Verde drain-age is as yet unknown; but Mr. Hodge thinks it not unlikelythat investigations now being conducted by Dr. J. WalterFewkes under the auspices of the Bureau of American Eth-nology will, within the next few years, prove beyond reasonabledoubt that some at least are the remains of buildings erected bycertain Hopi (Tusayan or Moki) clans of undoubted southernorigin. Accounts of Casa Grande as an object of tourists curiosity,more modem than most of those above cited, are of course in-numerable; several plates have been published, and photographsare easily accessible. In general, these popular notices arefairly good descriptions, but historically worthless or per-. b to o £ ^1 BEST MONOGRAPHS ON CASA GRANDE. IOI nicious. The best monographs by far are those of CosmosMindeleff, entitled Casa Grande Ruin, in 13th Ann. Rep. , pp. 289-319, pll. li-lx, and The Repair of Casa GrandeRuin, Arizona, in 1891, in 15th Ann. Rep., pp. 315-349, pll. cxii-cxxv. The first of these papers opens with the location and characterof the ruin, after which a brief survey of its position in litera-ture is given, and then an extremely careful and minute descrip-tion of the main house and collateral ruins of the group, in thestate of dilapidation in which they were found when visited byMr. Mindeleff in 1890. Among the plates the most importantin some respects is the first accu
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