Cliff Dwellings Reopen More than 750 years ago, Pueblo Indians built cliff dwellings just outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. They lived there until drought drove them away around 1580. In modern times, people have toured the Puye Cliff Dwellings, which became a national historic landmark in 1966. But a massive fire forced their closure in 2000. In May, the cliff dwellings reopened to the public. The Santa Clara Pueblo, descendants of the cliff dwellers, own and run the site. They’re now providin
June 2009
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- The Dark Border (Fiction)
- North Star (Fiction)
- Cowboy Park (Nonfiction)
- Family Ranch: Land, Children, and Tradition in the American West (Nonfiction)
- Mormonism’s Last Colonizer (Nonfiction)
- The Last Indian War (Nonfiction)
- Dark Spaces: Montana’s Historic Penitentiary at Deer Lodge (Nonfiction)
- Full-Court Quest (Nonfiction)
- Wallace Stegner and the American West (Nonfiction)
- Word Gets Around (Fiction)
- Buried Lies (Fiction)
- Western Writers Pick Top 100 Westerns
- Sam Houston: Standing Firm (Children’s Book)
More In This Issue
- Revisiting Lonesome Dove
- Two Oregon Naturals Make A Team
- Steve Shaw
- Shoot-Out at Cottonwood Springs?
- Preservation: Indians on the Internet
- Following Mountain Man Jim Bridger
- Good As Gold
- Gold Fever
- “Fight of My Life”
- Survival in the Cold Old West
- The Chuckwagon Cooky
- Collecting Geronimo
- Why are the rear wheels of stagecoaches larger than the front ones?
- What do we know about Lottie Deno?