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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Shiprock (N.M.)
View of Shiprock in New Mexico. Three horse riders in the front of image and a horse drawn buggie heading towards Shiprock. Colorful sky as the sun is setting.
Shiprock (N.M.) (1600 feet high)
Picture of Shiprock, New Mexico
Shiprock (N.M.) (Ship of the Desert)
A retouched color postcard of Shiprock, New Mexico. The sun is out and there are clouds in the sky.
Shiprock (N.M.) 12 miles in the distance
A foggy picture of Shiprock, New Mexico in the distance. In the front of the image is bare trees and two houses.
Shiprock (N.M.) plainly seen from Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
It is a color re-touched postcard of Shiprock, New Mexico and the title and the description mention that the tall mountain can be seen from Mesa Verde National park which is at least 45 miles away.
Shiprock (N.M.), Seen from Mesa Verde National Park
Close-up photograph of Shiprock, New Mexico.
Shiprock-Phantom of the Navajo Desert as seen from Mesa Verde National Park
A dark image of Shiprock in the distance, it takes a form of a shadowy phantom in the distance.
Skeleton, Aztec Ruins Nothern New Mexico
Postcard of human remains in dirt with what looks like an old bowl and cup laying next to them.
Sleeping Ute
A photograph of Sleeping Ute in the distance. A long dirt road cuts through the brush that covers most of the ground.
Sleeping Ute, Seen from Park Point (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
A color retouched postcard of Sleeping Ute. In the foreground of the postcards there are what appear to be trees and bushes and then there is a canyon. The postcard appears to be on a sunny day with some clouds in the sky.

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