. The national parks portfolio. - ->?»•? fife. THE CHACO CANYON NATIONAL MONUMENT rTHE Chaco Canyon National Monument preserves remarkable relics of a pre- * historic people once inhabiting New Mexico. Here are found numerouscommunal or pueblo dwellings built of stone, among which is the ruin known asPueblo Bonito, containing, as it originally stood, twelve hundred rooms. It isthe largest preliistoric ruin in the Southwest. So difficult are they of access that little excavation has been done. SHOSHONE CAVERN NATIONAL MONUMENTA FEW miles east of the celebrated Shoshone Dam, in Wyoming, is fo
. The national parks portfolio. - ->?»•? fife. THE CHACO CANYON NATIONAL MONUMENT rTHE Chaco Canyon National Monument preserves remarkable relics of a pre- * historic people once inhabiting New Mexico. Here are found numerouscommunal or pueblo dwellings built of stone, among which is the ruin known asPueblo Bonito, containing, as it originally stood, twelve hundred rooms. It isthe largest preliistoric ruin in the Southwest. So difficult are they of access that little excavation has been done. SHOSHONE CAVERN NATIONAL MONUMENTA FEW miles east of the celebrated Shoshone Dam, in Wyoming, is found** the entrance to the picturesque cave to preserve which the ShoshoneCavern National Monument was created. Some of the rooms are a hundred and fifty feet long and forty or fifty feethigh, and all are remarkably encrusted with limestone crystals. The passages through the cavern are most intricate, twisting, turning,doubling back, and descending so abruptly that ladders are often necessary. COLORADO NATIONAL MONUMENT rPHIS area, near Grand Jun
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