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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- Spruce Tree Canyon, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- A hand drawn picture of the Spruce Tree Canyon at Mesa Verde National Park.
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- Spruce Tree House
- Image of Spruce Tree House ruins at Mesa Verde National Park.
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- Spruce Tree House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- A black and white Spruce Tree House in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. In the postcard the photo depicts the of ruins in the cliff.
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- Spruce Tree House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- A colored postcard of ruins in the crook of the mountain that is Spruce Tree House located at Mesa Verde National Park. There are some trees and bushes on the left side of the postcard.
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- Spruce Tree House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- A color postcard of the Spruce Tree House with some ruins in the crook of the cliff. There are trees at the top of the postcard and the bottom as well with some clouds in the sunny sky.
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- Spruce Tree House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Color photograph of Spruce Tree House, Mesa Verde National Park
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- Spruce Tree House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- A picture of Cliff Palace underneath the cliff that the Spruce Tree House sits on top of.
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- Spruce Tree House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- A color postcard of Spruce Tree House, Mesa Verde National Park which is located in southwestern Colorado. The photo shows trees on the bottom with some ruins in the crook of a mountain.
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- Spruce Tree House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- A picture of Cliff Palace underneath the cliff that the Spruce Tree house is located on.
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- Spruce Tree House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Postmarked Mesa Verde, Colorado, 6/21/1939, to Miss Clara Louise Mather. "Dear C.L., These don't show it so well without the characteristic brick-red color. It hasn't rained here since April 15. A drought 1276-1299 was what carved out the cliff..."
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- Spruce Tree House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Photograph of Spruce Tree House, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado"