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Title: The Great West: its attractions and resources. Containing a popular description of the marvellous scenery, physical geography, fossils, and glaciers of this wonderful region; and the recent explorations in the Yellowstone park ... by Prof. F.V. Hayden ... Also, valuable information to travellers and settlers concerning climate, health, mining, husbandry, education, the Indians, Mormonism, the Chinese; with the homestead, pre-emption, land, and mining laws
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Brodix, Charles R., (from old catalog) pub Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887
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Publisher: Bloomington, Ill., C.R. Brodix
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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es and buried in the groundAll the arrows lie with their points toward the ruins. In none of thesettlements have there been signs discovered of partially-completed pointsor anything to indicate that the Cliff-dwellers were a warlike people orthat they fought with bows. The arrows are supposed to have been leftby an invading horde which swept, in some remote time, over the wholecountry and waged fierce warfare upon the rich cities of the South-land The Battle Rock of the McElmo is not more beautiful than the neigh-boring Hovenweep Castle, or, literally, The Castle of the Deserted\ alley. On the surrounding headlands of the Hovenweep, as well ason the distant plateaus of the Dolores and other streams, are sombrecities of the dead lifting their monumental tablets from the baredesert-sands. According to our authorities, no bones have been found inthese cemeteries, no signs of graves, but charred wood and ash-heaps aremingled with the sand. In all probability this ancient people were fire-
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AN ATTACK ON A VILLAGE OF CAVE-DWELLERS. THE CLIFF-DWELLERS. 449 worshippers who cremated their dead, and fancied that the souls of theirrace fled as the sparks upward, and found their heaven in the bosom ofthe blazing sun. The stones are mere memorials showing the spot wherethe dead were burned. The fact that the sun was their deity is substan-tiated by the estufas in their dwellings and in their cities. The buildingswhere their sacred rites were performed are of circular shape, depressedin the centre of the floor, show marks of altar-fires, are often triple-walled, with partitions extending from the centre through the walls, like thesuns rays, dividing the space into small apartments where their treasureswere stored. The present Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizonaare believed to be the remnant of the descendants of the conquered Cliff-men. The mud houses of the Pueblos are modelled rudely after thestone dwellings of the bottom-lands, and some signs of retrograde civil-ization l

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