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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- Long House Ruins, Wetherill Mesa (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Color image of the Long House Ruins on Wetherill Mesa at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Long House, Wetherill Mesa, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
- Color photograph of Long House inside Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Long House, Wetherill Mesa, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
- Color view across the canyon of the Long House Ruins on Wetherill Mesa at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Long House. Mesa Verde National Park.
- Color photograph of Long House inside Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Looking into Canon from Balcony House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Hand tinted print of the view from Balcony House looking into the canyon. July 9-10, 1930 hand printed on the front of the card.
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- Looking toward Mancos, Colorado, on road from Mesa Verde National Park.
- Colorized view of the winding road from Mesa Verde National Park to Mancos, Colorado.
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- Looking toward Mancos, on road from Mesa Verde National Park Colorado
- A colorized view of the winding ribbon of road from Mesa Verde National Park to Mancos, Colorado.
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- Looking toward Mancos, on road from Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- Photograph of the road toward Mancos, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Man standing next to a rock formation near Mesa Verde.
- A black and white photograph of a man standing next to a rock formation near Mesa Verde. The man is holding a bucket and shovel.
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- Manitou cliff dwellings, Phantom Cliff Canon (Manitou Springs, Colo.)
- Picture of Manitou Cliff Dwellings, Phantom Cliff Canon, Manitou Springs, Colorado.