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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- Mesa Verde National Park near Cortez, Colorado
- Color image of a ranger guiding a tour group through ruins at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde National Park near Durango, Colo.
- Black and white image of a park ranger leaning against a ladder at the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- An overhead view of the Cliff Palace ruins at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- Color photograph of the highest point of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- An overhead view of Cliff Palace ruins at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. (on back)
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- Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- Photo of Spruce Tree House, the third largest and best preserved of the Anasazi cliff dwellings, seen situated in an alcove of Spruce Canyon.
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- Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado (Cliff Palace)
- Color photo of the cliff dwellings inside Mesa Verde National Park.
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- Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Balcony House
- A color photograph of the Balcony House at Mesa Verde National Park.
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- Mesa Verde National Park, southwest Colorado
- Color photo of the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde National Park. Mancos, Colo.
- Four black and white photographic inserts. Moving clockwise from top left: "Spruce Tree House Plaza before repair"; "Spruce Tree House Plaza after repair; " Spruce Tree House south-west after repair"; "Spruce Tree House from south-west before repair".
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- Mesa Verde Natl Park, Colo.
- Black and white image of ruins at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde Park entrance, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- Color image of the winding entrance road to Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.