Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California . altogether disappeared. Ruins are often foundin the huge cavelike recesses of cliffs and of canyon walls,peculiar to a certain sandstone formation, and eminentlyinviting to a people on the defensive. These have beencalled cliff-dwellings, the former occupants Cliff-dwellers,and some people are under the impression that they were amysterious race different from the other Amerindians,which was not the case. Ancient house ruins can be tracedal
Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California . altogether disappeared. Ruins are often foundin the huge cavelike recesses of cliffs and of canyon walls,peculiar to a certain sandstone formation, and eminentlyinviting to a people on the defensive. These have beencalled cliff-dwellings, the former occupants Cliff-dwellers,and some people are under the impression that they were amysterious race different from the other Amerindians,which was not the case. Ancient house ruins can be tracedall along the course of the Colorado and Green rivers frombelow the mouth of the Virgin to, at least, White River,with a wide range on both sides. ^ In the native occupied villages of the South-west thecountry possessed actual permanent settlements long beforethe arrival of the whites, and when they finally came insearch of The Seven Cities, fabulously rich, these little Possibly the term was corrupted from a tribal name Diegueno.^ See The North-Americans of Yesterday, by F. S. Dellenbaugh. list of tribes and stocks is given in an
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