Excerpt from Through Our Unknown Southwest: The Wonderland of the United States Little Known and Unappreciated the Home of the Cliff Dweller and the Hopi, the Forest Ranger and the Navajo, the Lure of the Painted Desert On each side the room are tiny doorways leading by stone steps to apartments below and to rooms above; so that you may begin with a valley floor room which you enter by ladder and go halfway to the top of a 500-foot cliff by a series of interior lad ders and stone stairs. Flush with the floor at the sides Of these doors are the most curious little round cat holes through the walls cat holes for a people who are not supposed to have had any cats; yet the little round holes run from room to room through all the walls. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.