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Author Childs, Craig, 1967-

Title House of rain : tracking a vanished civilization across the American Southwest / Craig Childs.

Publication Info. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2007.
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 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  978.9 CHILDS    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  978.9 CHILDS    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  978.982 CHI    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  978.9 CHILDS    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  978.982 CHILDS    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xiv, 496 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-482) and index.
Contents Part One: Chaco -- The flood -- Chaco Canyon -- Alignment -- Fajada Butte and Casa Rinconada -- Identity -- Pueblo Bonito -- Part Two: The road north -- Looking North -- Pueblo Alto -- Visibility -- The Great North Road -- Decline -- Kutz Canyon -- Crossing to the other side -- The Totah -- Continuity -- Aztec -- Moon watchers -- Chimney Rock -- Part Three: High Mesa Verde region -- Memory -- Southwest Colorado -- Movement -- Northern San Juan Basin -- The art of leaving -- Great Sage Plain -- Protection -- Mesa Verde -- Devastation -- Below Sleeping Ute -- Loneliness -- Near Hovenweep -- Part Four: Southeast Utah -- Escape terrain -- Canyonlands -- Red -- The head of Comb Ridge -- The Great Wall -- Comb Ridge -- Walking the line -- Chinle Wash -- Part Five: Northeast Arizona -- Retreat -- Near Monument Valley -- The last cliff dwellings of the Anasazi -- Mesas of Kayenta -- The Great Pueblos -- Antelope Mesa -- The choice -- Painted Desert -- Outpost -- Little Colorado River -- Part Six: East-central Arizona -- The clock -- At the edge of the forest -- Watchtower -- Mogollon Rim -- Building large -- Along the Mogollon Rim -- Salado -- Below the Mogollon Rim -- The Highland Pueblos -- Kinishba and Grasshopper -- Land's End -- Point of Pines -- Part Seven: Southeast Arizona -- Flowers along the way -- Bonita Creek -- Crossroads -- Safford -- Mountain of shrines -- The Pinalenos -- Part Eight: Northern Mexico -- The far side of Mesoamerica -- Sierra San Luis -- The City -- Paquime -- Coming into the mountains -- Slope of the Sierra Madre -- The Eye of Tlaloc -- Sierra Madre occidental -- Putting back the bones -- Farther into the Sierra Madre -- The story the Conquistadors told -- At the western foot of the Sierra Madre.
Subject Chaco culture -- Four Corners Region.
Chaco Culture National Historical Park (N.M.)
Four Corners Region -- Description and travel.
Four Corners Region -- Antiquities.
ISBN 0316608173
9780316608176
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