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Historical Sites in Glen Canyon Mouth of San Juan River to Lee's Ferry

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Title Historical Sites in Glen Canyon Mouth of San Juan River to Lee's Ferry
Description Journal: Anthropological Notes, University of Utah Department of Anthropology, "Historical Sites in Glen Canyon, Mouth of San Juan River to Lee's Ferry", Number 46, June 1960, page 99 structures to be found there at the right bank entrance today (Fig. 35). The name Aztec Creek is believed to have been applied to the stream by miners who saw these structures, probably used them as camping shelters, and imagined them to have been the work of Aztecs, who were commonly and fallaciously held in the 1870's and 1880's to have erected the ruined pueblos of the Southwest. Aztec rapids, the fast water of the Colorado caused by the huge boulder delta of Aztec Creek, is occasionally... Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 1,689,878 bytes
Creator Crampton, C. Gregory
Date 1960-06 2006-9-26; 2006-09-27
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Identifier su07281.jpg http://server16127.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/udallcoloradoAZU,12115
Source Az 372 Box 174
Language eng

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