"Capital of New Mexico" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the ruins called La Gran Quivira, about 100 miles south of Santa Fe, as larger than the present capital of New Mexico. The architecture of this deserted city is of hewn stone, and there are the remains of aqueducts eight or ten miles in length leading from the neighboring mountains. These ruins "have been supposed to be the remains of a pueblo or aboriginal city;" but ...
— Some Observations on the Ethnography and Archaeology of the American Aborigines • Samuel George Morton |
