Front:
The Ruins of Puye.
a great prehistoric Cliff Dwelling City
in Pajarito Park, New Mexico.
Back:
THE RUINS OF PUYE A GREAT PREHISTORIC CLIFF
DWELLING CITY IN PAJARITO PARK, NEW MEXICO,
ON THE LINE OF THE D. & R. G. RAILROAD.
The quarters of the Cliff Dwellers near the Pueblo of Santa
Clara, New Mexico. Here are monuments of a race of long ago.
Shaped like swallows' nests, these mysterious dwellings have
marked the faces of the canyon walls for hundreds of years in
Northern New Mexico and in Arizona. The tradition is that
the Pueblo Indians were being driven inch by inch from the
north by a fierce foe. Upon reaching the plateau of New Mexico
they built permanent fortress homes. With the coming of the
Spaniards in 1540, these cliff dwellings were even then subjects
of traditions centuries old.
CT PHOTOCHROM
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