 | Charles Frederick Holder - 1892 - 836 頁
...throe of nature toppled down the vast ladderrock which gave sole adit to that dizzy perch, — twice as high as the now Acoma. The people were left homeless...valley the present Acoma was already an ancient city, from whose eternal battlements the painted natives looked down upon the mailed invaders as many hundreds... | |
 | Thurman Wilkins - 1998 - 518 頁
...down the vast ladder-rock which gave sole adit to that dizzy perch — twice as high as the [present] Acoma. The people were left homeless in the plain,...home, were shut aloft to perish upon the accursed cliff."115 Moran's sketches of Kat-zi-mo notwithstanding, it was Acoma that really roused his enthusiasm.... | |
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... romance. How old is that mysterious sky city no man may know. In the far gray past Acoma stood atop the Mesa Encantada, three miles north; but a mighty throe of nature toppled down the vast ladder-rock which gave sole adit to that dizzy perch —... 