FACING PAGE Looking Up the Canyon From Ceremonial Cave xvi The Old North Trail 1 Bandelier National Monument and Vicinity 8 The Painted Cave 14 Stone Lions of Cochiti 15 Ruins of Long House 30 A Part of Long House Ruins 31 Artist’s Restoration of Puwige 42 Aerial View of Puwige.—Restored 43 Ceremonial Cave 44 Kiva in Ceremonial Cave 45 A Section of Long House 60 Reconstructed Cliff House 60 Ruins of Puwige 61 Ruins of Large Kiva 61 The Author at an Old Hidden Trail 76 A Party of Visitors at Long House 77 PLATES (in pocket) Large Kiva. Ground Plan Large Kiva. Section Drawings Ceremonial Cave. Ground Plan Ceremonial Cave. Section Drawings Ground Plan of Frijoles Canyon. Ruins Area Northern Wall of Frijoles Canyon [Illustration: PHOTO BY GEORGE THOMPSON LOOKING UP THE CANYON FROM CEREMONIAL CAVE] [Illustration: PHOTO BY U.S. FOREST SERVICE THE OLD NORTH TRAIL] CHAPTER I Some Twenty Years Ago It has been some twenty odd years since I, as a child, first peered over the north rim of Frijoles Canyon. This was not so long ago when one thinks of the hundreds of others, still alive, who passed this way before me. I do not pretend to be an ancient but the number of individuals who saw the Frijoles in those days are microscopic when compared with the multitudes who have seen it since. There is not sufficient room here to discuss those who knew the place in the early days, long before my time, except to mention such personages as Adolph Bandelier, Charles Lummis, H. P. Mera, Edgar L. Hewett, Sylvanus G. Morley, A. V. Kidder, Jesse Nusbaum, Kenneth Chapman and many others who have distinguished themselves in the field of archæology or related fields. They all knew the place in its infancy, so to speak, and have contributed their share to the story of primitive Pueblo Indians who lived in the Valley of the Rito de Los Frijoles in times anterior to the coming of the Spanish.