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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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Photograph by Mrs. C. R. Miller Photographing One of the Rooms at Balcony House
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Photographs by J. L. Nusbauni Typical Skulls of Prehistoric Man Found in the Mesa Verde These skulls show an unusual breadth as compared with Indians of to-day, though of the same ethno-logical type. Nordenskiold concludes that the race was fairly robust, with heavy skeletons andstrong muscular processes. The facial bones are v:ell developed and lov/er jaw heavy SUMMER UPON MESA VERDE 1ESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK is in the extreme southwestern M corner of Colorado and is reached by two routes from Denver. Anight is usually spent en route, and the ruins are reached byI wagon, horseback, or automobile from Mancos. Apart from the ruins, the country is one of much beauty and interest. Thehighest spot on the mesa is Park Point, 8,515 feet in altitude. The mesasnorthern edge is a fine bluff two thousand feet above the Montezuma Valley,whose irrigation lakes and brilliantly green fields are set off nobly against thedistant Rico Mountains. To the west are the La Salle and Blue Mountainsin Utah, w

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