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House of rain : tracking a vanished civilization across the American Southwest / Craig Childs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Childs, Craig, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chaco culture--Four Corners Region.
- Chaco culture.
- Chaco Culture National Historical Park (N.M.).
- Four Corners Region--Description and travel.
- Four Corners Region.
- Four Corners Region--Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 496 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2007.
- Summary:
- Childs investigates the greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest. The Anasazi, the native peoples who by the 11th century converged on Chaco Canyon (now New Mexico), built a flourishing cultural center. By the 13th century, the Anasazi were gone from Chaco. What happened?
- Contents:
- The flood
- Chaco
- Chaco Canyon
- Fajada Butte and Casa Rinconada
- Pueblo Bonito
- The road north
- Pueblo Alto
- The Great North Road
- Kutz Canyon
- The Totah
- Aztec
- Moon watchers
- Chimney Rock
- High Mesa Verde region
- Southwest Colorado
- Northern San Juan Basin
- Great Sage Plain
- Mesa Verde
- Below Sleeping Ute
- Near Hovenweep
- Southeast Utah
- Canyonlands
- The head of Comb Ridge
- The Great Wall
- Comb Ridge
- Chinle Wash
- Northeast Arizona
- Near Monument Valley
- The last cliff dwellings of the Anasazi
- Mesas of Kayenta
- The Great Pueblos
- Antelope Mesa
- Painted Desert
- Little Colorado River
- East-central Arizona
- The clock
- At the edge of the forest
- Watchtower
- Mogollon Rim
- Along the Mogollon Rim
- Salado
- Below the Mogollon Rim
- The Highland Pueblos
- Kinishba and Grasshopper
- Land's End
- Point of Pines
- Southeast Arizona
- Bonita Creek
- Safford
- Mountain of shrines
- The Pinalenos
- Northern Mexico
- The far side of Mesoamerica
- Sierra San Luis
- Paquime
- Slope of the Sierra Madre
- The Eye of Tlaloc
- Sierra Madre occidental
- Farther into the Sierra Madre
- The story the Conquistadors told
- At the western foot of the Sierra Madre.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-482) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0316608173
- 9780316608176
- OCLC:
- 70114525
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