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their masters, in> one knows. There 

 are no records to tell ; only a few mute 

 relics speak of their homes, hearth- 

 stones, art, and weapons. 



From a few scattering tepee poles, 

 still lying across patches of unclaimed 

 land, the imagination may 'reconstruct 

 their wigwams, picturing them draped 

 in hlankets or skins. By digging a lit- 

 tle beneath the surface, one may see 

 the flat stones regularly placed, black- 

 ened and ready to crumble, which 

 served them for fireplaces. A few 



but most of them carried guns. 



There are no traces of basketry or 

 1 >"tUTy t" be found: there are no 

 nn liniments, and almost no >i-n of any 

 burials; SO that the questioner i- puz- 

 zled as to the disposal of their dead. 



The early white settler- round a 

 race-track near the spring, and it is 

 known that they met here annually for 

 their races and games. 



These are the relics left to link us 

 to that long ago. There are a thousand 

 thousand days of deeds on which the 



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First Home on Wright's Mesa 



beads \\-oven into armlets or necklaces 

 tell of their love of adornment. A 

 knife of petrified wood, perfectly 

 formed and highly polished, a single 

 specimen of its kind, was found here. 

 T.ut this particular spot is richest in 

 arrow- and spear-head of Hint. 

 quartz, or smoky topaz, which are 

 wonders of beauty and symmetry. 

 How were they made? Some say. by 

 heating the stone and pouring water 

 on it; others, by chipping with an >thcr 

 stone. At any rate, they are very old. 

 for the later Indians tipped their ar- 

 rows with iron when thev used them : 



sun set in gorgeous or delicate gran- 

 deur as it s^t. nouheve else in the 

 world : there are as many nights of re- 

 pose on which the moon -bed her 

 weird radiance: sunk in the darkr.' 

 of oblivion, with no known history on 

 which to ponder, until the advent of 

 the white mail, as late as tin- 70*8. 



Then the intrepid cowboy began 

 driving hi- herds in this direction. 

 ( >ne named \Yright settled at the 



nil of a draw. by a spring. 



His was not the pioneer SMU|. and he 

 so, MI returned to mre settled lands-, 

 not, however, without leaving his 



