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House of rain, tracking a vanished civilization across the American Southwest, Craig Childs

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-482) and index

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House of rain

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Craig Childs

tracking a vanished civilization across the American Southwest

Drawing on the latest scholarly research and archaeological evidence, the author of The Secret Knowledge of Water examines the remarkable accomplishments of the Anasazi people of the American Southwest and offers the latest speculation about how and why the culture vanished by the thirteenth century. Reprint

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