Volume 3: Mesa Verde/ Aztec Ruins
According to the U.S. National Park Service, Mesa Verde National Park features 5,000 known archeological sites, including 600 spectacular cliff dwellings. The name is Spanish for “Green Table,” and the area was inhabited by the Ancestral Pueblo people from AD 600 to 1300, over 700 years. (source) Mesa Verde, as well as nearby Aztec Ruins National Monument located in Aztec, New Mexico, are an important link to the Native American past of the region and provide significant economic stimulus, with well over half a million people visiting each year. (source)
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Photograph of Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. On front of postcard: Cliff Palace, contains 200 dwelling rooms and 22 sacred rooms, called Kivas.
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Postmarked Durango, CO 6/29/1929. To: Mr. Henry L. Weygand. Zurich, Mont. "If I had time & my wife were of the same mind we would surely see the Cliff Dwellers region which is about 40 miles from here. Bro, Oscar & Lee". C.T. American Art Colored.
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Occupied until the late 13th Century, this largest of Southwest cliff dwellings is also one of the best preserved."
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Photograph of the Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Black and white image of cliff dwellings under an alcove
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- A black and white photo depicts the Cliff Palace ruins in Mesa Verde National Park.
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- In this great prehistoric community there were 23 kivas, circular underground ceremonial chambers that served the men as clan headquarters and the site of secret rituals."
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Photograph of The Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Colored print of a Paul Coze painting. The caption reads, "Abandoned at the time of the great drought of 1276-99, the ruins of this great pueblo stand as the most extensive monument to prehistoric cliff dwellers of the Southwest." This is card No. 12 of a series of 24 Mesa Verde paintings by Paul Coze.
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Mesa Verde National Park, so long inaccessible and little known, now invites discovery by motorists. Fine new highways, most of them completely paved, have shortened the driving time to only one day from Denver, Salt Lake City, Grand Canyon, or Santa Fe.
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- black and white image of cliff ruins
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Black and white photo of cliff ruins