Why the Mesa Verde people eventually left their homes may never be known. Indeed, they lived in the cliff dwellings for only about the last 75 to 100 years of their occupation of Mesa Verde.

When I stepped onto the trail at Bandelier National Monument, I couldn’t help but envision the Ancestral Pueblo people walking along a similar path. I’d seen pictures of cliff dwellings before ...

The cowboys improvised a ladder and descended to examine the homes of a vanished people. Further exploration led to the discovery of the largest concentration of cliff dwellings ever found ...