Identifier: landofsunshineha02newm (find matches)
Title: The land of sunshine, a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: New Mexico. Bureau of Immigration Frost, Max, comp Walter, Paul A. F
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Publisher: (Santa Fe, N.M.) J.S. Duncan: public printer
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, at the site of the abandoned Pueblo of Cicuye, arethe ruins of the old Pecos church. They are as well preservedas those of San Diego. The church is 300 years old. It wasnearly 150 years old when the San Diego mission was founded.It was projected before the Spanish Armada was destroyedand antedates the coming of the Mayflower and the settlementof Jamestown. All that is said of the old Pecos church, may besaid of that of Jemez. They were built at the same time. Theone at Quivira was founded in 1630, and is a fairly well pre-served ruin. The churches at San Ildefonso and Santa Claraare in a complete state of preservation. They are nine yearsolder than the oldest of the California ruins. The old SanMiguel mission in Santa Fe has been rebuilt. Its walls datefrom 16r)0, the roof from 1694, or possibly a few years later.These are only a few examples selected at random from thelarge number of ancient churches of equally great interestscattered over New Mexico. Inscription Rock near Zuni and
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SAN MIGUEL S CHURCH AT SANTA FE. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 133 every one of the pueblos from Taos on the north to Isleta onthe south, and from the Rio Grande pueblos in the centralpart, to Zuni in the west, are all worthy of a visit both for his-toric and present day interest. There is no other building to compare in historic interestwith the Old Palace at Santa Fe, and there is no city or townin the United States which offers so much of interest to thetourist as that city. Scenic ^A^onders. New Mexico possesses many scenic attractions. Its moun-tains equal the Alps in ruggedness and height; its valleys andwaterfalls have a picturesqueness of their own; its forestssuch as are included in the Pecos and other forest re-serves offer sylvan retreats of rare beauty; its mesas andplains are not without their attractions, and a visit to its oldsettlements as well as to the Indian pueblos and the Indianreservations is well worth many miles of travel. The ScenicRoute road that is being built betwe

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