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Title: What to see in America
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nly record their thoughts by a few symbolspainted on their earthenware jars or scratched on rocks.But their sense of beauty was keen, as is evidenced by their 424 AVhat to See in America handiwork in basketry, cotton fabrics, and their ceramics,which they decorated with beautiful designs in rare colors.They were expert builders, they cleared and irrigated land,and they became more civilized than any other Indians in theUnited States. At length they disappeared. Possibly theywere attacked by Indians from the plains, and either de-stroyed or driven away, but that is only conjecture. ASpanish exploring party discovered cliff dwellings here in1541, but even then the buildings had been abandoned for along time. Our Indians of the present shun the ruins ofthe Mesa Verde, which they believe are inhabited by spiritswhom they call the Little People. The park is reached bywagon, horseback, or automobile from Mancos, abbuttwenty miles away. Kit Carson, greatest of all the frontiersmen, trappers,
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Balcony House, Mesa Verde Colorado 425 scouts, guides, and Indian fighters of the far West came toColorado, after taking an active part in the Civil War, andsettled on a ranch near the mouth of Picketwire Creek. Hedied in 1868 at Fort Lyon, where he had gone to visit a son.Carson was born in Kentucky in 1809, but his fathers familymoved to Missouri while he was an infant. W^hen he wasseventeen years old he joined a party of Santa Fe tradersand began his life of adventure on the great plains and in theRocky Mountains. For sixteen years his rifle supplied everyparticle of food on which he lived. He married a squaw,and after her death took for his second wife a Spanish ladyin New Mexico. He was a quick wiry man, rather under theaverage height, cool in times of danger, and with nerves ofsteel. He was wholly uneducated, and could with difficultywrite his name. His expertness as a rifleman was amazing.He could toss a silver dollar thirty or forty feet in the airand shoot it before it reache

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