The Cities of the Sun

Stories of Ancient America founded on historical incidents in the Book of Mormon

By Elizabeth Rachel Cannon

Illustrated from paintings by Geo. M. Ottinger and photographs by the Author

SECOND AND ENLARGED EDITION

Salt Lake City, Utah 1911

"Builded on the ruins of dead thrones Whose temple walls were old when Thebes was new, On altars whose weird sacrificial stones With ghastly offerings were crimson through, Oblivion hides and holds thy secrets fast, The dust of ages lies upon thy past, All-wonderful, mysterious Mexico."