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Benjamin Alfred Wetherill

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Description:An advocate of the pioneering work of this seldom-recognized archaeologist group in their discovery and seminal work in the major ruins of the Mesa Verde, Maurine S. Fletcher has taken the records, journals, and writings of Benjamin Alfred Wetherill, his family members, and others, to provide a factual record for history and archaeology.Though degraded and their work nearly denied by the U.S. Department of the Interior, the five Wetherill brothers and their brother-in-law Charles Mason worked in and near the Ute Indian Reservation in the 1880s and 1890s, trying to maintain a living while searching for either a myth or a place of the gods. The Ute Indians spoke about the existence of greater ruins than those in the Mancos Canon, but would never reveal the locations, fearing that the spirits of those who had occupied the ruins would destroy them all. Locating the major ruins in 1888, the Wetherills attempted to get the state of Colorado and the federal government to protect the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings before they were ruined by entrepreneurs searching for things to sell.This is the calamitous story of not only the short-sightedness of government to protect the site of the discovery but also its cold indifference and subsequent denigration of the Wetherill family's contribution.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Wetherills of the Mesa Verde: Autobiography of Benjamin Alfred Wetherill. To get started finding The Wetherills of the Mesa Verde: Autobiography of Benjamin Alfred Wetherill, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: An advocate of the pioneering work of this seldom-recognized archaeologist group in their discovery and seminal work in the major ruins of the Mesa Verde, Maurine S. Fletcher has taken the records, journals, and writings of Benjamin Alfred Wetherill, his family members, and others, to provide a factual record for history and archaeology.Though degraded and their work nearly denied by the U.S. Department of the Interior, the five Wetherill brothers and their brother-in-law Charles Mason worked in and near the Ute Indian Reservation in the 1880s and 1890s, trying to maintain a living while searching for either a myth or a place of the gods. The Ute Indians spoke about the existence of greater ruins than those in the Mancos Canon, but would never reveal the locations, fearing that the spirits of those who had occupied the ruins would destroy them all. Locating the major ruins in 1888, the Wetherills attempted to get the state of Colorado and the federal government to protect the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings before they were ruined by entrepreneurs searching for things to sell.This is the calamitous story of not only the short-sightedness of government to protect the site of the discovery but also its cold indifference and subsequent denigration of the Wetherill family's contribution.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Wetherills of the Mesa Verde: Autobiography of Benjamin Alfred Wetherill. To get started finding The Wetherills of the Mesa Verde: Autobiography of Benjamin Alfred Wetherill, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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