The book The Western United States a Geographical Reader was written by author Harold W Harold Wellman Fairbanks Here you can read free online of The Western United States a Geographical Reader book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Western United States a Geographical Reader a good or bad book?
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In the foreground of the photograph (Fig. ^6) appears one of the ovens in which the baking is done. In some of these pueblos the women still grind their corn by hand in r84 THE WESTERN UNITED STATES stone inatatcs, just as their ancestors did for many hundreds and perhaps thousands of years. In northwestern New Mexico there is a remarkable flat- topped rock known as the Enchanted Mesa, which rises with precipitous walls to a height of four hundred feet above the valley in which it stands. It wa...s long be- lieved that human beings had never been upon this rock, although there were traditions to the effect that a village once existed upon its summit. According to the tradition, the breaking away of a great mass of rock left the summit inac- cessible ever afterward. The cliffs were scaled re- cently by the aid of ropes, and evidences were found, in the shape of pottery fragments, to show that the Indians had once inhabited the mesa. Two or three miles away, across the valley, is the large village of Acoma, where a great deal of pot- tery is made for sale.
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