The cowboys improvised a ladder and descended to examine the homes of a vanished people ... At first it seemed that Mesa Verde might suffer the same fate as smaller ancient sites discovered ...

Why the Mesa Verde people eventually left their homes may never be known. Indeed, they lived in the cliff dwellings for only about the last 75 to 100 years of their occupation of Mesa Verde.

Greetings from Mesa Verde National Park This is a photo of me climbing the ladder up to Spruce Tree House at Mesa Verde N.P. in May 1978. From 1977 to 1982, my late husband and I lived and travelled ...

Mesa Verde Motel is one of the few lodging options ... You'll also be steps away from the historic Bauer House. Built in 1889, it was owned by George Bauer, who founded Mancos' first store.

Century when Spruce Tree House was built. It is now closed for the first time ... Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites in existence are protected within Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern ...