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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- Climbing to Balcony House ruin (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 shorted the driving time to only one day from Denver, Salt Lake City, Grand Canyon, or Santa..."
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- Colorado National Monument
- Mountains and plains in the foreground.
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- Courtyard and North wall of Aztec ruins. Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico
- Courtyard and North wall of Aztec ruins. Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico black and white photograph on postcard.
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- Covered wagon at Chimney Rock (Neb.) on the Oregon Trail
- Pioneers standing near a covered wagon with the Chimney Rock geological formation in the background, on the Oregon Trail in Nebraska.
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- Cut on Knife Edge Road, Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.
- Cut on Knife Edge Road, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Developmental Pueblo
- Colored print of a Paul Coze painting. The caption reads, "From 700 to 1000 A.D. inhabitants of Mesa Verde learned to build dwellings of masonry. Corn, beans and squash were staple crops. Pottery improved and weaving of cotton cloth began." This is Card No. 21 of a series of 24 Mesa Verde paintings by Paul Coze.
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- Discovery of Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Colored print of a Paul Coze painting. The caption reads, "In December, 1888, Richard Wetherill and Charles Mason, while hunting cattle, found Cliff Palace and other nearby ruins." Shows two men on horseback, in the snow, pointing to the cliff dwellings. This is Card No. 7 of a series of 24 Mesa Verde paintings by Paul Coze.
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- Distant View of Cliff Palace
- Color photograph of Cliff Palace as viewed from across a canyon at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- East rooms, Balcony House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Photograph of the East Rooms in Balcony House. Man with binoculars seated on a stone wall in front of the structure. Postage was United States and Canada one cent; foreign two cents.
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- Entrance Road, Mesa Verde National Park
- The text reads, "From the Park entrance at the north, the entrance highway climbs 1500 feet to the to of the Mesa offering many spectacular views of the surrounding "Four Corners Country."
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- Entrance to Aztec Ruins National Monument (N.M.)
- Entrance to Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico.
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- Entrance to Balcony House, Mesa Verde National Park
- Entrance to Balcony House, Mesa Verde National Park.