The Dolores star., 1924-07-25

Montezuma Castle. Arizona. 1906. prehistoric clin
dwelling, 100
Chaco Canyon, New Mexico 1907 numerous pueb-
los and cliff dwellings. 20c29 acres.
Navajo. Arizona. 1902 prehistoric pueblos and
cliff dwellings, $50
Hovenweep utah-Colorado. 1928. prehistoric tow
ers. pueblos and cliT dwellings 2S6
TumacacOri. Arizona 1908. ruin of Seventeenth
century Franciscan mission 10 acres
Gran Quivira, New Mexico. 1903. ancient pueblo
and early Spanish mission. 100 acres
Casa Grande Arizona, prehistoric relic, $50 acres.
Yucca House. Colorado. 1919. prehistoric relic. 10
Aztec Ruin New Mexico. 1923. prehistoric pueblo
OF 500 rooms,
Pipe Spring, Arizona. 1929. old fort
spring Of pioneer days. 40
Muir Woods. California. 1908. fine redwood grove
526
Pnnacles. California. 1908. many spire-like rock
formations. 900 to 1000 feet high. 2.65s
Natural Bridges, Utah. 1908. three very large
natural bridges. 2.7iO acres.
Rainbow Bridge, Utah. 1910. height ao9 feet span
27S feet 100 acres.
sitka. Alaska. 1910, park Of historic association.
l6 fine totem poles. 81
Colorado. Colorado. 1911. wonderful example of
erosion many lofty monoliths. 1888 acres.
Papago saguaro Arizona 1914 characteristics des-
ert flora and many photographs. 1910 acres.
Lewis and Clark Cavern. Montana. 1905 immense
limestone cave, 160 acres
shoshone Cavern, Wyoming 1909 large limestone
cave 2lo
Dinosaur. Utah. 1915. deposits of fossil remains.
Fossil Cyad. South Dakota, 1922 deposits of plant
fossils 320
of geologically recent formation. 6s1 acres
Katmsi. Alaska. 1918. volcanic phenomena. includ-
ing Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes" 1910 acres
verendrye. North Dakota 1917 includes Crow
high Butte. from which the famous French ex-
scotts Bluff. Nebraska 1919. point Of historic
interest in winning of the West. 2.o53 acres.
Pages of Interesting matter could be written
about these national monuments. Take for ey
ample, those of Arizona. New Mexico and Colorado
They Illustrate the history of the American South
west from the prehistoric times of the cliff dwell
ers down through the many years of frantic
searching for gold by the Spanish soldiers and
the col0niZinS and proselytng by the Spanish
priests. Cortez conquered Mexico for Spain in
1Jl9-21 1t was soon looted. The Spnnard then
turned his search for gold toward Peru-whicb js
another story-and toward the unexpiored wilder
ness TO the North. The air was full of northern
treasure myths-El Dorado, the giIded man. and
whole people clothed in gold the Seven Cities of
Cibola, with their golden domes; Quivira the city
of gold. Side by side soldier and priest invaded
the desert. Each despised the other each used
the n'her. Coronado's expedition from Mexico in
1910 that penetrated as far Kansas is one of
the most romantic in all history.
Gran Quvira was once the nourishny pueb,o
city of Tabra, believed to be Quvira by the Spun-
iurds. 1t discovered in 1881 by Francisco
Banchez de Chamuscado. Francisco de Acedeyo
founded the mission In 1928. The Apaches wiped
it out about 1910. The ancient pueblo held about
LOO The great stone church was built In 1914
Both still stand in this ghost city of the long ago
Montezuma Caste is of the relics of the
prehistoric people called cliff dweers and is very
old. 1t is a communal house of % roonls built in
a shallow cave in the face of lofty cliff
Casa Grande tGrent House) is prehistoric mys-
terry. 1t was already ruin when Fray Marcos
discovered it in 1889. 1t is large building of
natural concrete called culeche smoothly pIastered
within. 1t stands in a large compound of outlying
buildings enclosed in u rectangular wall.
Aztec Ruin was presented to the nation by
Archer NJ. Huntington of the American Museum of
Natural History. 1t is being extensively excavated
and restored. Centuries before Columbus one of
the richest cenfers of prehistoric civilization was
the valley of the Amimas river in northwestern
New Mexico. There, within the radius of a single
mile vast mounds Of earth and fallen stone mark