Pueblo
a city and county-seat of Pueblo co., Col.; on the Arkansas river, and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé, Missouri Pacific, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, and other railroads; 118 miles S. E. of Denver. Here are the State Hospitals for the Insane, the State Agricultural Society's buildings, etc.
There is an extensive park system, excellent schools, public and private, libraries, county court house, State Mineral Palace and Park. The city has noted iron and steel plants and large stock-yards. Pop. (1910) 44,395; (1920) 42,908.
PUEBLOS (Spanish, pueblo, "village"), a semi-civilized family of American Indians in New Mexico and Arizona, dwelling in large single habitations, which are sometimes capacious enough to contain a whole tribe. In New Mexico there are 19 such villages, with over 8,000 occupants, who are skillful agriculturists, employing irrigation ditches extensively, and rearing horses, cattle, and sheep. Spinning and weaving and the manufacture of pottery also are carried on. The Moquis of Arizona are a related tribe, numbering about 1,800, in PUFENDORF seven villages built on the summit of isolated hills. The Pueblos are under Roman Catholic missionaries, and are making steady progress in civilization and education. They were first visited by the Spaniards about 1530, at which period their habits and their habitations were very much the same as today.