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Usage examples of "picuris".

Those mountains bore lilting names and snow-streaked peaks: Tres Orejos, Vallecitos, rocky Jicarita, wooded Picuris peak, Truchas, and San Antonio where the eagle knew elk lived.

He went with Capodimonte to see the ancient ruins, and he went hunting in the Picuris Range with a lanky acolyte named Weber, and he joined the choral society and sang a lusty tenor.

This road was a poor detour linking the mission church at the big, and often troublesome, Picuris Indian Pueblo and a scattering of impoverished high-country settlements.

The bishop passed through Las Trampas en route to the church at Picuris Pueblo.