. New Mexico, the land of the delight makers : the history of its ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Franciscan missions; personal accounts of the ceremonies, games, social life and industries of its Indians; a description of its climate, geology, flora and birds, its rivers and forests; a review of its rapid development, land-reclamation projects and educational system; with full and accurate account of its progressive counties, cities and towns . sta Butte, Navaho Church,Mesa Butte, and Sierra de los Lobos, which almost con-nect with the Zuni and Chusca Mountains
. New Mexico, the land of the delight makers : the history of its ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Franciscan missions; personal accounts of the ceremonies, games, social life and industries of its Indians; a description of its climate, geology, flora and birds, its rivers and forests; a review of its rapid development, land-reclamation projects and educational system; with full and accurate account of its progressive counties, cities and towns . sta Butte, Navaho Church,Mesa Butte, and Sierra de los Lobos, which almost con-nect with the Zuni and Chusca Mountains. These ridges,7,000 and 8,000 feet high, are mainly flat-topped mesaslike the Chusca and the western part of the Zuni Moun-tains. The mountains are not well watered. A beautifulpermanent creek winds down inside the old crater ofMount Taylor and cuts its way out through the brokenrim on the south. A few other little creeks and scattered springs break-ing out around the edges of the mountains are permanent,but the greater number of streams are merely spring tor-rents from melting snow. The Chusca Mountains 1 are a long low range, in reality 1 The name Chusca, or Choiskai, is generally applied to the south-ern half, and Tunicha, or Tunitcha, to the northern half of thisperfectly continuous and nearly uniform range. There is certainlynot room for two names, and I have used the one that seems betterknown and in its shorter form, which is in common use among The Mountains of New Mexico 311 a long mesa or plateau, extending from a little north ofGallup northward across the New Mexico and Arizonaline and almost connecting with the Carrizo Mountains, ahigher, rougher group lying mainly in Arizona. Most of this mesa is of sandstone, 8,000 to 9,000 feethigh, with abrupt rimrock margins, but toward the norththere are ridges of rough lava rock and basaltic top is an undulating forested country with greatnumbers of shallow lakes, usually without outlets. Be-low t
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