The Ruins of Puye, Pajarito Park

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Stock #: 258597
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: Los Alamos
State: New Mexico (NM)
County: Los Alamos
Publisher: Curt Teich & Co.
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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The Ruins of Puye, a great prehistoric cliff dwelling city in Pajarito Park, New Mexico. On the line of the D & RG Railroad. The quarters of the Cliff Dwellers near the Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico. Here are monuments of a race of long ago. Shaped like swallows' nests, these mysterious dwellings have marked the faces of the canyon walls for hundreds of years in Northern New Mexico and in Arizona. The tradition is that the Pueblo Indians were being driven inch by inch from the north by a fierce foe. Upon reaching the plateau of New Mexico they built permanent fortress homes. With the coming of the Spaniards in 1540, these cliff dwellings were even then subjects of traditions centuries old

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