CONTENTS
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Introduction [i]
I The National Forests [1]
II National Forests of the Southwest [22]
III Through the Pecos Forests [44]
IV The City of the Dead [60]
V The Enchanted Mesa of Acoma [78]
VI Across the Painted Desert [100]
VII Across the Painted Desert (continued) [116]
VIII Grand Cañon and the Petrified Forests [137]
IX The Governor's Palace of Santa Fe [153]
X The Governor's Palace (continued) [169]
XI Taos, the Promised Land [183]
XII Taos, the Most Ancient City in America [196]
XIII San Antonio, the Cairo of America [214]
XIV Casa Grande and the Gila [226]
XV San Xavier Del Bac Mission [251]
THE ILLUSTRATIONS
Cliff dwelling ruins, known as Montezuma Castle, [Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
South House of Frijoles Cañon [ii]
Indian woman making pottery [xii]
Indian girl of Isleta, N. M. [xx]
One way of entering the desert [4]
In the Coconino Forest of Arizona [14]
Forest ranger fighting a ground fire with his blanket [22]
Pueblo boys at play [34]
Chili peppers drying outside pueblo dwelling [46]
Los Pueblos, Taos, N. M. [56]
Entrance to a cliff dwelling [64]
Ruins of Frijoles Cañon [74]
A Hopi wooing [80]
A Hopi weaver [86]
A shy little Hopi maid [92]
At the water hole on the outskirts of Laguna [96]
A handsome Navajo boy [106]
The Pueblo of Walpi [122]
The Grand Cañon [140]
The Governor's Palace at Santa Fe [154]
A pool in the Painted Desert [160]
Street in Santa Fe [166]
Ancient adobe gateway [172]
San Ildefonso [180]
Taos [188]
Over the roofs of Taos [198]
A metal worker of Taos [208]
A mud house of the Southwest [220]
The enchanted Mesa of Acoma [230]
Navajo crossing mesa [246]
At the Mission of San Xavier [254]
A Moki City on a mesa [262]