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Title: New Mexico, the land of the delight makers : the history of its ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Franciscan missions; personal accounts of the ceremonies, games, social life and industries of its Indians; a description of its climate, geology, flora and birds, its rivers and forests; a review of its rapid development, land-reclamation projects and educational system; with full and accurate account of its progressive counties, cities and towns
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: New Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : The Page company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Acoma, the City of the Cliffs 161 The Hon. Kirby Benedict, sitting as chancellor, hadthe honour of settling this remarkable case. He heardthe evidence and decided in favour of Acoma. Lagunaappealed to the Supreme Court, which also made a thor-ough, and for it, rather extra judicial investigation, andthen, in 1857, affirmed the original decision. Part ofthe Supreme Courts decision reads as follows: The history of this painting, its obscure origin, its age, andthe fierce contest which these two Indian pueblos have carried on,bespeak the inappreciable value which is placed upon it. The in-trinsic value of the oil, paint, and cloth of which San Jose is rep-resented to the senses, it has been admitted in argument, probablywould not exceed twenty-five cents; but this seemingly worthlesspainting has well-nigh cost these two pueblos a bloody and cruelstruggle, and had it not been for weakness on the part of one ofthe pueblos, its history might have been written in blood. As soon as the news o

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