Show NOTES ON THE BOOK DERIC WITH THE INDIANS editor his been over much of sinie sune area are i and met several in arins relatives of those mention in book gives a digest of book to En Enco comage niage bos and gills to reid reul re id it editor to took ok 4 mile trip fi study indians past and lot es 1 jOI loic IVOK D S READING COURSE erol dyed the book deric derle with the indians very much and when in to my office came a young girl of about twelve bright eyed eager and with all the expectancy ot of youth and tl tc absorption of the young with the volume in her hands borrowed to read at home nights I 1 told her how much I 1 enjoyed the book and enczur aged her to read it carefully then thinking that others might also be influenced to take that pleasure the following Is written I 1 meet doric deric s father I 1 met dene deric s father in the mesa verde national park in the summer oi of 1928 when I 1 visited that wonder lana superintendent nusbaum was cr eo kind to me and permitted the angers to let me tell them stories of the indians indian myths and talk to the groups as they went through the ruins 1 I thoroughly enjoyed the mesa verde I 1 was there about five days and while there bought two books by deric nusbaum mesa verde nation al park tor for one and deric derle with the for the other I 1 also already had a volume written by der ic s father entitled A cave in cane county utah which cave had been visited by aleck ad ams and also by don P cram both of our little town so I 1 felt almost acquainted before I 1 was introduced to superintendent nusbaum A review of deric s book I 1 will rapidly go over deric s book in a sort of book review in III an am ateer way as it if my readers and I 1 belonged to the same club and I 1 had been assigned to read a paper on a book read the picture deric shows near the front of the mesa verde the green table was taken when it was not green but pure white with a heavy tall fall of snow I 1 was there in mid summer the view from point look out is beautiful it was raining nice ly down by cortez that afternoon but as clear as a crystal where I 1 was one could see tor for miles upon miles in the clear air from point lookout to the regis office I 1 was all eyes I 1 stop ped at each of the ruins on the way which put me quite late so that I 1 got in to the camp grounds after dusk and as soon as I 1 registered at once went to see spruce tree house from the nm rim before night settled down in fact then in the morning cliff palace and in the afternoon balcony house and in the after days repeats over the same ones or trips to square tower house sun temple and the others the rangers were very kind they let me jabber to the tourists and I 1 gliber oft off memorized tales from the prince of story tellers frank H cushing others from mrs steven son some of our indian tales from heie hele and myths legends and religious stories from all the sources I 1 could then call to mind dene deric in zuni the photos I 1 took there have some been used in magazines I 1 have writ benfor ten tor some in this paper andoch and oth ers on my walls also many made up into lantern slides on which I 1 ha hae have ve in delta eureka rich tiled filed milford and talked informally in los angeles and south dena I 1 expect to talk of 0 them more dene derie speaks about zuni I 1 spent two tuo days at zuni and already have the material typewritten en and gone over once to prepare on the linotype to print in the chronicle a story en titled A day in zuni so that I 1 will not anticipate that article at this time suffice it to say that ot of the interesting things deric mentions I 1 saw the center of the earth toy allane the old mission church now nearly three hundred years old its graveyard the gravestone of the gov capr e cpr then alive whom deric men bols I 1 saw the zuni women tiring firing pot ry making bread tending their g ga alens ens which are so like tiny chi ri patches of cultivation and just a 84 nicely kept and well wait the article I 1 promise is coming and then you can read fully the village ot of taos next doric derie mentions toas I 1 took an excellent snap of the village across the river even despite the fact that the day was overcast one of the man taking the place of the governor that day as that honorable functionary was laid up III this man was dress ed like a bedola of the desert big white blanket moccasins leggings and all very interesting indeed I 1 saw the pretty taos women with their native dress on white moc afus basins with attached wrapped leg gings aings up to the knee beautiful black braids manta sash and blue skirt charming women and so interest ing at taos I 1 saw kit carson s grave he the famous scout of the southwest of whom YOU kids have all read a buck bucket t of blood in each chapter and en e ry time he cocke I 1 his piece fifty tawny redskins bit the dust or some other such bilgo bilge water that you ought to b ashamed to spend your time in reading at santa clara deric speaks of meeting santiago naranjo I 1 met a mrs neranzo nephew in law of the old men mon was invited to her house bought her picture was shown the many decorations in her home and was most hospitably treated I 1 romp ed around santa clara with a mob of indian boys and girls following me as I 1 bought a dollar s worth of candy tor for them ard as long as it lasted I 1 was in tine fine favor I 1 took two little brown girls by the hands and away we went they to show me the village church its graveyard the kiva and we went swimmingly until the boys boys will be boys the world over began to jeer and poke fun and the litt lebrown little brown girls pulled their hands out of mine nor could I 1 again hold hands with them and I 1 bought santa ana pottery which Is now in my case we spent two days at espanola got caught in the rim mia and played bride with our hostess hostes who regaled us with tine fine first hand les of the penitentes or Flagel Flage antea lante as some speak of them we enjoyed th stop over much as everything told us was cue ct interesting ian a ildefonso defonso ll at san I 1 ie fonso which dene deric men eions and of f chich he shows a photo of himself I 1 mane marie a famous pot tery maker 1 went into the home of a very good i atter maker mrs rob ert gonzales io 10 made the fine pol red id tan vase trimmed with white ahila I 1 have in my office she had on h r walls a silver cup about ten inci i high which had been won by h her hr r baby when seven months old tor for sing ang the prettiest and helt healthiest hiest ct cl III in the village the father was very proud of that distinction and I 1 bought a photo of him and the child now a lad of say eight summers mr gonzales very kindly showed us pottery in the mak mall ing from the clay to be ground in the metate up stage after stage until we came to the finished pieces I 1 certainly did enjoy that brief visit I 1 yearned to own a baby cradle in the front room then emp ty as mama was away tor for the mo ment swinging from the ceiling logs oldest church in united states at santa re I 1 got a good picture of san miguel mission which bears the big sign THE OLDEST CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES sante fe says to st augustine you may dispute with us cs s to which Is the older you or w wa but we have it on you as to the church ours Is the oldest in the whole united states and they stick to it so what have you as interesting as this old church I 1 saw burro alley where there la Is just room tor for two small burros to pass but not if it they ve eaten I 1 took a photo of a burro loaded with fire wood from tall to ears which firewood Is bought by the peo pie tor for their fires I 1 saw the big marble shaft which says the city of the holy faith which Is the meaning of the spanish words san ta fe I 1 saw the bronze tablet in town which reads end of the santa fe trail I 1 stood in el palacio which means palace of the governors and with bared head entered the room in which general lew wallace wrote the last three chapters of ben hur el pa lacio has housed governors of three different nationalities I 1 heard the bells of old san miguel ring that tone of 0 richness ot of gold nd sweetness of sacrifice and vis cited the museum As to elderly in lians ot of whom der c likewise speaks I 1 got a photo ol 01 one indian aged 96 of 0 another aged 95 from the road ack down from the puye I 1 tok took a distant picture ol 01 the sango de christo mountains which means blood of christ they are 13 and 13 feet high derle deric speaks of pablo abeita I 1 met diego abeita nephew of pablo a tine fine young man owner of a store s selling nice indian curios writer tor for newspapers some of whose ble stories have appeared in the al tribune and in the chron icle he ile is a good writer finished adroit knows words and has a rich sense of 0 humor even at the expense ot of the whites I 1 admire him very much and his picture Is the center one ot of three on one ot of the piers in I 1 my office the ancient ruins at the puye I 1 saw the house of a thousand rooms up on top and the odd very very old cave dug out houses below that a not so very far from living bande lier writes about it at isleta but wait I 1 in m going to write an article tor for this paper on Is leta alone pretty nearly as long as this so nothing more now cockitt I 1 merely passed ahr through h sorry now dandelles Ban delles lived there for several years derle deric speaks of a native broom my partner bought once such a little round whisk of dried grass stems as thick as my wrist and about as long the one with which the pullman porter whisks gold dust into the palm of his hand oft off your cloak chuh yeah acoma the city on the sky hue iane at acoma which derle deric speaks of I 1 ate two meals in an indian worn wom an s home just as they eat and it a tine fine took a nice lot of photos one of the tiny little maiden climbing up to her home brown dimples and a necklace and nothing more on I 1 will write ot of ac oma in this paper this year R 11 II ivern at inscription io n rode I 1 saw the inscription which ch derle gives I 1 es on page of his book that Is the one I 1 tell you about when I 1 lecture about the massacre ot of cap tain gunnison Gunn lson for or on the same space is the name of R 11 II kern artist who lies burled buried under the gunnison Gunn lson monument sixteen miles from here when I 1 write A day in zuni I 1 will speak of that at length the navaho hogan which means the same as house their word tor for it which he shows on page Is ex acely like many I 1 saw in the old ones true to ideals the door always faces the east I 1 didn dian t get to pueblo bonito so that Is something to go back after A person should always leave some thing undone to go back after as on the second trip we learn a lot more than on the first and to pueblo bo nito alto I 1 am going it Is one of the lar gest old ruins occupied about 1130 and earlier at page doric deric speaks of the wetherill brothers I 1 mr wetherill that Is john and bis his brother dick were the first white people to see the big ruins in mesa verde I 1 met the widow ot of dick wetherill and i have given one ot of her stories in this i paper and am working on another which I 1 hope to publish elsewhere I 1 think his book very interesting and I 1 hope many of my own audience will read it you will also like it frank beckwith sr |