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Beneath the holes was embedded human hair. Nothing more picturesque exists in America's past than the panorama of this old Santa Fe Trail. Santa Fe was to the Trail what Cairo was to the caravans coming up out of the Desert in Egypt. Twitchell, the modern historian, and Gregg, the old chronicler of last century's Trail, give wonderfully vivid pictures of the coming of the caravans to the Palace.
Twitchell, for instance, make a great and deserved reputation, become the oracles of large districts, and yet leave nothing, or next to nothing, by which their names shall be preserved from blank oblivion. One or two other facts deserve mention, as showing the readiness of our medical community to receive and adopt any important idea or discovery.
As her Representative, her presiding officer, her head of affairs, Mayor Gaston was a success; an honor to the great city which honored him. In 1870 he was a candidate for Congress, but failed of an election, Hon. Ginery Twitchell receiving a majority of the votes. In 1875 Harvard College and also his Alma Mater, Brown University, conferred upon him the degree of LL.D.
There were many men besides Will Dawes in that Harvard class who were heard from in later years. Ed Twitchell for one, and "Sam" Caldwell, who was one of the nominees for vice president in '92. I sat next to Sam in "Bull" Warren's Greek class. THERE was one of the finest scholars this country has ever produced a stern taskmaster, and a thorough gentleman.
The walled-up, conical fireplaces and meal bins and corn caves of a pueblo people who lived on the site of modern Santa Fe hundreds of years before the Spanish founded this capital here in 1605. For years it has been a dispute among historians Bandelier, Hodge, Twitchell, Governor Prince, Mr. Reed whether any prehistoric race dwelt where Santa Fe now stands.
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