The book of the national parks (1920) (14785557343)

Identifier: bookofnationalpa1920yard (find matches)
Title: The book of the national parks
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861-1945
Subjects: National parks and reserves
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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upon the very top of El Morro rock. Casa Grande National Monument In the far south of Arizona not many miles northof the boundary of Sonora, there stands, near the GilaRiver, the noble ruin which the Spaniards call CasaGrande, or Great House. It was a building of largesize situated in a compound of outlying buildings en-closed in a rectangular wall; no less than three othersimilar compounds and four detached clan housesonce stood in the near neighborhood. Evidently, inprehistoric days, this was an important centre of popu-lation; remains of an irrigation system are still visible. The builders of these prosperous communal dwell-ings were probably Pima Indians. The Indians livingin the neighborhood to-day have traditions indicatedby their own names for the Casa Grande, the OldHouse of the Chief and the Old House of Chief Morn-ing Green. The Pima word for green and blue is the ^HHk ■i*i V l jj fl ^^ i iff ii&WJl i > ft ■IMM ife- ■. -•># ,/t CASA GRANDE NATIONAL MONUMENT
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PREHISTORIC CAVE HOMES IN THE BANDELIER NATIONAL MONUMENT The holes worn by erosion have been enlarged for doors and windows HISTORIC MONUMENTS 375 same, Doctor Fewkes writes me. Russell trans-lates the old chiefs name Morning Blue, which is thesame as my Morning Green. I have no doubt Morn-ing Glow is also correct, no doubt nearer the Indianidea which refers to sun-god. This chief was the sonof the Sun by a maid, as was also Tcuhu-Montezuma,a sun-god who, legends say, built Casa Grande. Whatever its origin, the community was alreadyin ruins when the Spaniards first found it. Kino iden-tified it as the ruin which Fray Marcos saw in 1539and called Chichilticalli, and which Coronado passedin 1540. The early Spanish historians believed it anancestral settlement of the Aztecs. Its formal discovery followed a century and a halflater. Domingo Jironza Petriz de Cruzate, governorof Sonora, had directed his nephew, Lieutenant JuanMateo Mange, to conduct a group of missionaries intothe desert,