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An illustrated history of an enigmatic assemblage of canyons and mesas tucked into the southwestern corner of Colorado. It recounts the 1888 'discovery' of the cliff dwellings and other Anasazi ruins and the ensuing twenty-year campaign to preserve them. It also details the resulting creation of a national park in 1906.

Table of Contents
Terra Incognita; "Like an Immense Ruined Castle"; Women to the Rescue; Victory; Trials and Tribulations; "Mesa Verde Has Wonderful Possibilities"; The Nusbaum Years; "To Get Away from It All"; A Grand Tradition; 'A Solid Mass of Milling Humanity"; The Best of Times, the Worst of Times; The 1980s; The Old and the New; Index.

Mesa Verde National Park Shadows of the Centuries

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    A Paperback by Duane A. Smith

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      Publisher: University Press of Colorado
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/26/2002 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780870816840, 978-0870816840
      ISBN10: 0870816845

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An illustrated history of an enigmatic assemblage of canyons and mesas tucked into the southwestern corner of Colorado. It recounts the 1888 'discovery' of the cliff dwellings and other Anasazi ruins and the ensuing twenty-year campaign to preserve them. It also details the resulting creation of a national park in 1906.

      Table of Contents
      Terra Incognita; "Like an Immense Ruined Castle"; Women to the Rescue; Victory; Trials and Tribulations; "Mesa Verde Has Wonderful Possibilities"; The Nusbaum Years; "To Get Away from It All"; A Grand Tradition; 'A Solid Mass of Milling Humanity"; The Best of Times, the Worst of Times; The 1980s; The Old and the New; Index.

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