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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Pipe Shrine House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
Pipe Shrine House in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Handwritten on front, A-4935.
Pipe Shrine and Fairview House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
Pipe Shrine and Fairview House in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
Pipe Shrine and Fairview House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
Hand colored print of Pipe Shrine and Fairview House.
Pipe Shrine and Farview House, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
Sepia tone photograph of Pipe Shrine and Farview House. Note on front of card "July, 9-10, 1936."
Pit House, Wetherill Mesa, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
Pit House, Wetherill Mesa, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
Point Lookout (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
Point Lookout and highway to Mesa Verde National Park, in southwestern Colorado.
Point Lookout (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
Point Lookout from the entrance to Mesa Verde National Park in Southwestern Colorado.
Point Lookout - Mesa Verde Highway, Colo.
The postcard shows Point Lookout, off of Mesa Verde Highway in Colorado.
Point Lookout - Mesa Verde Highway, Colo.
Point Lookout on the Mesa Verde Highway, Colo.
Point Lookout - Mesa Verde National Park Highway (Colo.)
Point Lookout - Mesa Verde National Park Highway.
Point Lookout - entrance to Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
Point Lookout at the entrance to Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.
Point Lookout Dominates the Entrance to Mesa Verde National Park
View of Point Lookout at the entrance to Mesa Verde National Park.

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