A soldier-doctor of our army, James PKimball, late colonel and assistant surgeon-general, . il, 126 A SOLDIER-DOCTOR famous in American annals of the nineteenthcentury. From the site of old Fort Marcy wecould almost hear again the cries of the crowdas the long caravan of white wagons descendedthe high mesa into the town; Los Ameri-canos! Loscarros! Lacaravana! When ourFort Marcy band played on the plaza in theafternoon, the scene was perhaps not unlikethat of a century ago. The audience, Ameri-cans, Mexicans, and Indians, strolled or loungedunder the venerable cottonwood trees; dark-ey
A soldier-doctor of our army, James PKimball, late colonel and assistant surgeon-general, . il, 126 A SOLDIER-DOCTOR famous in American annals of the nineteenthcentury. From the site of old Fort Marcy wecould almost hear again the cries of the crowdas the long caravan of white wagons descendedthe high mesa into the town; Los Ameri-canos! Loscarros! Lacaravana! When ourFort Marcy band played on the plaza in theafternoon, the scene was perhaps not unlikethat of a century ago. The audience, Ameri-cans, Mexicans, and Indians, strolled or loungedunder the venerable cottonwood trees; dark-eyed Mexican girls, each with a black shawldraped over head and shoulders, cigarette-smoking youths, Indians with their fagot-laden burros, priests and nuns, visitors fromhotels and sanatorium, shopkeeper and shop-pers, all took time to dream and dawdle inthis land of poco tiempo. We soon found the old capital a delightfulplace to live in. With our two sure-footedponies we rode every day into the hills, explor-ing Indian pueblos, turquoise mines, cliffdwellings, and the windings of the Rio Grande. H Si W u o SANTA FE 127 before it had really become the Great WildRiver of the North. We dipped into theearly Spanish history of Western America,and the names of Da Vaca, De Vargas, andCoronado became familiar to our ears. Weentered into the local rivalry as to the oldesthouse in America, disputed with one at , Florida. Near this primitive dwell-ing, and of contemporary date, stands thelittle church of San Miguel. The present struc-ture, which is not the first, dates from 1630. Fort Marcy formed a part of the town quarters were cottages of gray adobe, sur-rounded by fields of alfalfa. This is the onlyunfailing green, as grass requires constant irri-gation. Hospital and barracks were, of course,on the reservation; and the band-stand on thepublic plaza brought us pleasantly in touchwith our neighbors of the town. The practice march was a recognized in-stitution
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