The Scorpion's Tail Quotes

“In 1680, the Indians rose up, killed four hundred settlers and dozens of padres, and drove the rest of the Spanish out of New Mexico. This was the Pueblo Revolt.”
― Douglas Preston, The Scorpion's Tail

“The Puebloans had come to think of gold as an accursed metal that made Spaniards crazy, the thing most responsible for their enslavement in the mines.”
― Douglas Preston, The Scorpion's Tail

“endemic”
― Douglas Preston, The Scorpion's Tail

“cognitive”
― Douglas Preston, The Scorpion's Tail

“dissonance.”
― Douglas Preston, The Scorpion's Tail

“tangential”
― Douglas Preston, The Scorpion's Tail