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...Niza had just returned from a four-month trip into the unexplored country to the north, in search of the legendary "Seven Cities of Antilia." What he said while his whiskers were coming off took his story dramatically out of the reach of expedition yarns. North of the Gila, he said, there was a fabulously wealthy country called Cibola, with "many walled cities." In Cibola, added the friar, even the women's belts were made of gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New World | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Gila Game Protective Association Miami, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1949 | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Graduate students Herbert Dick, of Albuquerque, and C. Earle Smith, of St. Petersburg, Florida, went to New Mexico last summer with the Peabody Museum expedition to locate traces of early American man in the Upper Gila River area. They didn't find what they were looking for. But the two University scientists did stumble across something which has puzzled botanists for four centuries. They discovered the missing link in the corn kingdom-cobs and pieces of corn that are both the oldest and most primitive known to modern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientists Find 4000-Year-Old Corn | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...Alone. In El Paso, transcontinental Hitchhiker Sam Henderson complained that few cars were giving him lifts-on account of both the gas shortage and the three live rattlers and three gila monsters included in his baggage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 14, 1945 | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...Dalhart, Tex. the words Dust Bowl are fighting words. The Dalhart Texan will pay $50 for information identifying the human Gila monster who coined the term Dust Bowl. "Maybe we did have some wrong farming methods," says Editor Albert Law, "and maybe we did have some dust storms. But we're really getting back to normal. We've got food crops that look like forests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Celebration | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

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