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Title: Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886
Subjects: Joint Boundary Commission (United States and Mexico) Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton & Company
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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sketches, lowmezquit bushes have taken root around the buildings,as well among its walls as in its apartments. On thewest, the plateau extends to a range of low mountains,about five miles distant, running in a line from north-west to south-east. The river bottom and adjacentplateau are about fifteen miles in width, which isabout the average width from Janos to Casas Grandes.Proceeding south, these mountains appear to approach,thereby contracting the plateau and valley. Thelatter, I was told, continues fertile far to the south,and is as highly cultivated as any portion of thecountry. August 10th. From our hospitable friends welearnt that the town contained about 400 inhabitants.They are strictly an agricultural population, and haveextensive fields of grain and orchards near. Maize isthe chief product, and is sent in large quantities toChihuahua and El Paso, where it finds a ready market.The people seemed industrious and happy, and wereapparently in a better condition than we had found
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AND VISIT TO CASAS GRANDES. 365 them in the other frontier towns. They are somewhattroubled by the Apaches ; and we noticed two crossesnear the ruins, and four on the road to Correlitos, theevidences of their murderous propensities. We were up by sunrise, and found a cup of coffeeready for us; after which we again set out for theruins, accompanied by four men, whom I had engagedto dig among them. We first dug in a large apartment where somemetates had been discovered, and which it was believedhad been a sort of kitchen ; but we found nothing butbroken pottery, an obsidian arrow-head, and somesmall marine shells. Leaving Dr. Webb to superintendthese excavations, I set to work to take a ground planof the buildings, as far as it was possible to do so; butthe Mexicans who undertook to assist me were far fromadepts in the business, and caused me much annoy-ance. This was not a little increased by the troops ofmen, women, and children, who flocked around meuntil it seemed that half the popu

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