Word: puebloed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nevada, Governor James Graves Scrugham reported having enlisted capital for continued excavations in "Pueblo Grande de Nevada," the pueblo cliff city eight miles long which he discovered personally last year and intends making into a state park. Some 50 of the 10,000 or more graves have been opened, containing corn, weapons, decorations and dice, dating (by estimate) to 5,000 B. C. Hard by the city is a turquoise mine. Some of the skeletons are gigantic...
...Pueblo, Col., one Dale Sechrist, high school pupil, bought a pair of baggy Oxford trousers, donned them, went to school. ... In half an hour Dale Sechrist wore no trousers at all, was unconscious. From an upper branch of a nearby tree, flouted by the wind, derided from below, Dale's baggy bags flew high. Ku Kluxing klassmates had not liked them...
...Pueblo, Col., hawks attacked men working on a church steeple, tore ears, clawed cheeks, pecked polls, forced them to flee. Two detectives, sent in search of the hawks, captured them...
...Pueblo Grande de Nevada...
...erosion of the houses has been considerable and this, in a very dry region, points to great age. The village is farther to the north and west than other pueblos, and its age has been tentatively set at from 5,000 to 10,000 years - which makes it as old or older than the most ancient Egyptian tombs. Governor Scrugham has accepted the title of "Pueblo Grande de Nevada" for the buried city, and plans to convert it into a state park. Needless to say, the work of excavation has only begun...