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Identifier: nationalparkspor1917yard (find matches)
Title: The national parks portfolio
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861-1945 United States. National Park Service
Subjects: National parks and reserves
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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cattle on the Mesa Verde near their home at Mancos,Colorado, pushed through dense growths on the edge of a deepcanyon and shouted aloud in astonishment. Across the canyon,tucked into a shelf under the overhanging edge of the opposite brink, were thewalls and towers of what seemed to them a palace. They named it Cliff Palace.Forgetting the cattle in their excitement, they searched the edge of themesa in all directions. Near by, under the overhanging edge of another canyon,they found a similar group, no less majestic, which they named Spruce TreeHouse because a large spruce grew out of the ruins. Thus was discovered the most elaborate and best-preserved prehistoricruins in America, if not in the world. A careful search of the entire Mesa Verde in the years following has resultedin many other finds of interest and importance. In 1906 Congress set asidethe region as a national park. Even yet its treasures of antiquity are not allknown. A remarkable temple to the sun was unearthed in 1915.
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