The multi-storied pueblo dwellings of Taos, New Mexico have been home to Native Americans for over 1,000 years. Mud and straw adobe walls, continuously maintained by replastering with layers of mud, still glisten with the mica which caused Spaniards to believe they had finally found one of the Seven Cities of Gold.
The collection of dwellings, with two main buildings as well as several smaller structures, adobe ovens and corrals, looks m...[continued]
Old West | Indians - Ute guides take you inside the 'other Mesa Verde'. [more]
Old West | Indians - "Where spirits stayed, and medicine men prayed". [more]
Old West | Indians - The two largest cliff dwellings near Sedona. [more]
Dozens of ancient petrogylphs more than 800 years old are the reward that awaits hikers at the end of the Signal Hill trail climb not far from Tucson, Arizona. After making your way up numerous stone steps through a wash and up a hill, the half mile walk ends at the summit of a plateau which is strewn with petroglyph etched rocks.
These are the prehistoric etchings of the Hohokam, or “the people who have gone”, the name given to the peop...[continued]
Old West | Indians - A taste of the past on a lazy Northwest evening. [more]
Old West | Indians - A canyon lined with hundreds of petroglyphs. [more]
Old West | Indians - One of America’s top archaeological destinations. [more]
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