Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Conklin's Modern Nineveh and Babylon
The Pueblo Indians are, unquestionably, descendants of the Aztecs, of whom, after the so-called anihilation of that people by Cortez in 1620, perhaps naught but a single man and woman may have escaped to some hole in the rocks or mountains and there, by the cunning and interesting repetition of history, the beautiful story of Adam and the Garden of Eden told over again. One must doubt however, that these people had the nice big red apple Eve had, by the poor specimen of that fruit which that section of country produces. Perhaps it was a pinon in this case, as this nut is the national fruit there. It permeates every crack and corner of every Pueblo's residence, and the little Indian girls will in terest you by coming upon the train when it reaches Isletta, and vending their dried and shrivelled up apples, and their sweet Pinons. A prolific year of the pinon indicates pestilence, and makes them a forbidden fruit in those seasons. The girls come in their native cos tames, and sing out in their musical voices their Cari Pinons. In these girls one can see a Pocahontas, and find many an Amerlcan who, like Wm. Penn, fell a wil ling captive to their simple charms. It is estimated there are about one hundred anglo-saxon whites mar ried, legally and in the solemnization of all religious sects, to Pueblo Indian girls in New Mexico; raising families, and thus raising the standard of civilization in the Pueblo of their adopted parentage.
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