House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest Multihazard Studies For that reason

For that reason

30 black and white photographs

Utah and the Pony Express were vital to each other

and in each hole the upper few feet of the underlying Star Point Sandstone were intersected

and the serene beauty of the Escalante River canyons

House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest Multihazard Studies For that reasonBy: Craig Childs The greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest is the fate of the Anasazi, the native peoples who in the eleventh century converged on Chaco Canyon (in today's southwestern New Mexico) and built what has been called the Las Vegas of its day, a flourishing cultural center that attracted pilgrims from far and wide, a vital crossroads of the prehistoric world. The Anasazis' accomplishments in agriculture, in art, in commerce,