xpedition ever reach
ed Hid den Valley, or
at least,
archaeologists hav
e never found anything to indicate
such a visit. And I repeat, the Spanish expeditions clung
to the low valleys and kept away from the mountains. Tyuonyi
then, is our subject. The Spanish never visited it and if
they ever heard of its extensive settlement by Pueblo Indians
direct mention was never made of it. It was a Hidden Valley
in the New World occupied before recorded history began
in America. And today its ruins are mellowed with age.
It has yet to give up all its secrets about the cliff dweller who
hewed three hundred caves from its north cliff with stone
axes and knives, and built over twice as many small houses
at its base. They constructed five community villages on its
floor, and raised corn and beans and