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Show A member of Wheeler's expedition commented on the characteristics of trails in the region. 221 Their trails are remarkable, extending as they do in a straight line from one pueblo to another, and even traced from ruin to ruin. These deeply-worn paths, even on the rocks, passing without swerving to right or left, over valley, plain, or ascent of mesa-as though the t r a i l was older than the mesas, or before the canons, gnawed into the plateaus by erosion, had reached their pathway-speak more powerfully than all else of how old a people they are. Later, the trail became the road between St. Johns and Gallup. The site located where compass reading #1 was taken along the trail during the 1986 fieldwork has been identified as the location of the Nathan Barth store, "an 222 important stop" on the road. Leigh Richey, a longtime resident of Apache County, recalled that the old road from St. Johns to Gallup went up the Zuni River on the south side until it reached the Barth Store, and that the road crossed to the north side of the river east of the Barth Store.223 Leslie Spier also identified this site, and described it as follows:224 A single small house, now almost obliterated, stood on the north 221. Thompson, G. "Notes on the Pueblos and their Inhabitants," Report Upon U n i t e d States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian. . ., Vol. VII, Archaeology, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1879, p. 322. 222. Ferguson, op. cit., p. 10. 223. Kintigh, Keith "Notes on Conversation with Leigh Richey, 7/16/86," MS. August 1, 1986. Mr. Richey also recalled how the early Anglo settlers in the area cleaned out and used old Indian canals for irrigation. 224. Spier, Leslie "An Outline for A Chronology of Zuni Ruins," Anthropological Papers _I the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. XVIII, Part III, New York, •Lafi.i, p. ziy. 145 - |
