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Title: Through our unknown Southwest, the wonderland of the United States-- little known and unappreciated-- the home of the cliff dweller and the Hopi, the forest ranger and the Navajo.-- the lure of the painted desert
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina), 1871-1936
Subjects: Hopi Indians Navajo Indians
Publisher: New York, McBride, Nast & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e Gila in three weeks. Thealtitude of the trail from Silver City to the Gilaruns from 6,000 to 9,150 feet. When you havetold that to a Westerner, you dont need to tell any-thing else. It means burros for pack animals. Inthe Southwest it means forests of huge yellow pines,open upland like a park, warm, clear days, coolnights, and though in the desert, none of the heatnor the dust of the desert. It is the ideal land for tuberculosis, though allinvalids should be examined as to heart action beforeattempting any altitude over 4,000 feet. And theSouthwest has worked out an ideal system of treat-ment for tuberculosis patients. They are no longerhoused in stuffy hotels and air tight, super-heatedsanitariums. Each sanitarium is now a tent city —portable houses or tents floored and boarded half-way up, with the upper half of the wall a curtainwindow, and a little stove in each tent. Each pa-tient has, if he wants it, a little hospital all to him-self. There is a central dining-room. There is
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CASA GRANDE AND THE GILA 231 also a dispensary. In some cases, there are churchand amusement hall. Where means permit it, afamily may have a little tent city all to itself; andthey dont call the tent city a sanitarium. Theycall it Sun Mount, or Happy Cafion, or someother such name. The percentage of recoveries iswonderful; but the point Is, the Invalids must comein time. Wherever you go along the borders ofOld and New Mexico searching for prehistoricruins, you come on these tent cities. Where can one see these cliff and cave dwellingsof a prehistoric dwarf? Please note the points.Cliff and cave dwellings are not the same. Cliffdwellings are houses made by building up the frontof a natural arch. This front wall was either instone or sun-baked adobe. Cave dwellings arehouses hollowed out of the solid rock, a feat not sodifficult as it sounds when you consider the rock isonly soft pumice or tufa, that yields to scraping morereadily than bath brick or soft lime. The cliffdwellings are usu

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