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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View from Balcony House, Mesa Verde National Park
View from Balcony House, Mesa Verde National Park. A black and white photo.
View in Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
Postmarked Laramie, Wyo. 4/10/1948 To: Mrs. A.W. Ritter. "Apr. 6, 48 Hello. Thanks for the card. Hope I got your address right. Well I have a new address. We moved up here in Wyo. 3 weeks ago. I have been sick and going to the Dr. all week...."
View of Spruce Tree House from the Canon Rim in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
View of Spruce Tree House from the Canon Rim in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Spruce Tree is located in a canon just below the Park offices and is usually the first ruin visited.
View of Square Tower House, showing Crows Nest, Mesa Verde Nat'l Park, Colorado
View of Square Tower House, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
View of the West Wall of the Large Ruin at Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec New Mexico
There is a wall made out of mostly light-colored bricks. Two bands of black bricks run through the wall. Behind this wall are othe walls made out of brick that slope upwards..
Vista of the Knife Edge Road and Mesa Cliffs from Park Point in Southwestern Colorado.
Vista of the Knife Edge Road and Mesa Cliffs from Park Point in Southwestern Colorado.
Watch Tower, Cliff Palace
Photo of Watch Tower, Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park

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