Cortez| City in the southwestern corner of Colorado, USA, 64 km/40 mi west of Durango; seat of Montezuma County; population (2000) 8,000. Major industries are oil and tourism, although Cortez is also a trade centre in a livestock, fruit, grain, dairying, and timber region. Other industries include metal, food, and animal feed processing and the manufacture of plywood, leather goods, furniture, and industrial gases. |
| In the 1950s, oil and tourism replaced farming and livestock ranching as the city's major industries. |
| Cortez is the gateway to Mesa Verde National Park, 14 km/9 mi to the southeast, and is also 56 km/35 mi northeast of the Four Corners. |
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| But I doubt whether our conquests in the countries I treat of would be as easy as those of Ferdinando Cortez over the naked Americans. It came into my mind in the nick of time, how Columbus, or Cortez, or one of those people, played an eclipse as a saving trump once, on some savages, and I saw my chance. The class of power, the working heroes, the Cortez, the Nelson, the Napoleon, see that this is the festivity and permanent celebration of such as they; that fashion is funded talent; is Mexico, Marengo, and Trafalgar beaten out thin; that the brilliant names of fashion run back to just such busy names as their own, fifty or sixty years ago. |