lodge is located, have an engaging history. All of us at the Lodge take pride
in these deep roots. In sharing this history, we hope to preserve the past of
the Bishop's Lodge in memory as vividly as it's preserved in the beautiful
grounds and buildings.
north from Mexico in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola, which were said to be made
of gold. But all he found for his troubles were mud and stone Indian villages along the
Rio Grande. He called them pueblos, the Spanish word for towns, because these fortified
villages were sometimes three stories high.
Indian word is tuh·SOO·kay or tay·SOO·key), sat beside an intermittent tributary whose
source lay below eastern peaks that reach an elevation of more than 12,000 feet. The Pueblo
Indians had migrated here long before, perhaps from the ruined cities of the Anasazi people
farther to the west. The Pueblos grew corn, squash, and beans in their irrigated fields,
gathered piñon nuts in the hills and hunted deer and small game in the mountains. The
mountain peaks were among their sacred places, and the trails to them passed through the
canyon where The Bishop's Lodge was eventually built, as attested by bits of broken pot-
tery and pieces of flint that may still be found in the area. The north lodge itself sits upon
ruins from even earlier inhabitants.