Montezuma Castle National Monument Arizona

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Montezuma Castle A National Monument Arizona

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Author : Albert H. Schroeder Homer F. Hastings
language : en
Publisher: anboco
Release Date : 2016-08-21

Montezuma Castle A National Monument Arizona written by Albert H. Schroeder Homer F. Hastings and has been published by anboco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-21 with Fiction categories.

MONTEZUMA CASTLE, a pueblo ruin in the Verde River valley of central Arizona, has no connection with the Aztec emperor whose name it bears. The name was given by early settlers in the Verde Valley in the belief that the striking 5-story ruin with its 20 rooms had been built by Aztec refugees, fleeing from central Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest. It follows naturally that the small lake inside a hill 7 miles away should be named Montezuma Well. While the story of the flight is known to be false, the names remain. The aboriginal builders of the Castle left no records, but they did leave broken pottery, trash, and other debris of their everyday life. The analysis of this material tells us that these people, whom we call Sinagua (see glossary), were peaceful farmers who occupied this area from the 1100's until the 1400's; that they were similar in physical type to many of today's Pueblo peoples in northern Arizona and New Mexico; and that they differed somewhat in their daily life from their neighbors in the desert to the south and in the mountains and plateaus to the north. This is their story, and we hope that it can take you back in your mind's eye to the time when their fingers left marks as they plastered the walls of Montezuma Castle, and to the time when their fires left the smoke deposits you still see on those walls. But this story must begin with the land itself....

Montezuma Castle National Monument Arizona

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961

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Montezuma Castle National Monument Arizona

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Author : Albert H. Schroeder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958

Montezuma Castle National Monument Arizona written by Albert H. Schroeder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Indians of North America categories.

Montezuma Castle National Monument Arizona

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Author : Albert H. Schroeder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958

Montezuma Castle National Monument Arizona written by Albert H. Schroeder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Arizona categories.

Montezuma Castle Natl Monument

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Author : Rod Timanus
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions
Release Date : 2014-08-25

Montezuma Castle Natl Monument written by Rod Timanus and has been published by Arcadia Library Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-25 with History categories.

The mysterious cliff dwelling known as Montezuma Castle has overlooked Arizona's Verde Valley for over 900 years. Originally thought to have been built by the ancient Aztecs, later research proved it to be the handiwork of a long-vanished people named the Sinagua. They inhabited the site for over three centuries and then simply walked away to be lost in the mists of time. In this volume, the author traces the history of Montezuma Castle through its construction, abandonment, later discovery, and the diligent efforts of many individuals and organizations to restore and preserve it for future generations. In 1906, Montezuma Castle was designated one of the country's first national monuments by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt. Arizona was still a territory at that time, six years away from becoming the 48th state in the Union.

Montezuma Castle National Monument Arizona Classic Reprint

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Author : Albert H. Schroeder
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-10-21

Montezuma Castle National Monument Arizona Classic Reprint written by Albert H. Schroeder and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-21 with Social Science categories.

Excerpt from Montezuma Castle National Monument, Arizona Montezuma Well and the cave in which Montezuma Castle is built both exist today because of a series of events that began over 1 mil lion years ago. A flow of lava coming from the Black Hills at thesouth end of the Verde Valley closed the narrow canyon through which the verde River then ran. This formed a natural dam and the river backed up against it to form a lake. Other rivers farther upstream added more water, and carried in large quantities of dissolved lime stone from the higher elevations which they drained. Consequently, in late Pliocene times (perhaps -1 million years ago), the Verde Valley was covered by a shallow lake or marsh 25 to 40 miles long and 12 to 15 miles wide. Its extent can be determined by noting the boundary between the light-colored sedimentary limestone and the dark basalts or the red sandstone marking the old shoreline. This light-colored rock was redeposited from the original limestone beds upriver and, therefore, the entire formation is almost devoid of fossils. Well preserved conger tracks, however, imbedded in a slab of limestone, were found a few miles north of Montezuma Castle near Cornville, Ariz. When the lake was at its maximum size the water reached a height where it began to flow over the top of the lava dam. During thou sands of years of spilling over, the water gradually wore down through the lava until the entire lake drained away. The limestone that had been carried in and deposited on the lake bottom then became the new ground surface. Salts left by the evaporation of water were also deposited on the lake bottom. A deposit of this type can now be seen near Camp Verde. Although the formation is principally sodium carbonate, sodium chlo ride (common table salt) and sodium sulphate are also found. For many centuries early Indians mined salt deposits in this locality and a few years ago a deposit of sodium sulphate near Camp Verde was worked commercially. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Ruins Along The River

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Author : Carle Hodge
language : en
Publisher: Western National Parks Association
Release Date : 1986

Ruins Along The River written by Carle Hodge and has been published by Western National Parks Association this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Arizona categories.

A general overview of the prehistoric Sinagua settlements of Montezuma Castle, Tuzigoot, and Montezuma Well in Arizona's Verde Valley, Also includes information about the abandoned Fort Verde, the old mining town of Jerome, and the bustling community of Sedona.

Montezuma Castle

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979

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Montezuma Castle

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988

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Mojave National Preserve

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Author : Matthew Jaffe
language : en
Publisher: Western National Parks Association
Release Date : 2003-11-01

Mojave National Preserve written by Matthew Jaffe and has been published by Western National Parks Association this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-01 with History categories.

This imposing cliff dwelling near Montezuma Well in Arizona's Verde Valley was built not by Montezuma's Aztecs, but by fourteenth-century Sinagua farmers. Photos by George H. H. Huey, Larry Lindahl, Tom Bean, and Paul Berquist.