THE AMERICAN WEST
Cliff dwellings of the ancient Pueblo People, nestled under a vast outcropping of rock on
Mesa Verde in Colorado, are the astonishing remains of a civilization that left no written history behind, but the small city of multi-leveled dwellings made of mud or carved out of sandstone 8,000 feet up the mountainside, with its elaborate complex of kivas, courtyards, reservoirs and towers, is an engineering marvel that will only deepen your sense of wonder and mystery of Native American life in the “Very” Old West.
The alien landscape of Arches National Park is partly explained by the fact that
this red desert was once the bottom of an inland sea that evaporated and left a deep bed of salt behind, which over millions of years heaved up and carved out a collection of the most bizarre and massive rock formations on the planet, like the aptly-named Delicate Arch, the 700-foot-tall Pipe Organ, the Devil’s Garden, the Tower of Babel, and the thousands of other spires, fins, and balanced rocks that make this a playground of visual surprises and boundless imagination.
The American West... it is as much a place in the mind as it is a region on a map as you’ll
discover in the Whitney Gallery of Western Art within the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Here in little Cody, Wyoming, an unrivaled collection of works by artists like Frederic Remington, N.C. Wyeth, and Thomas Moran, as well as Native American art and modern masters, offers paintings, illustrations, and sculptures of western land, people and wildlife, with prairie vistas as powerful and moving as the untamed world that inspired them. You can even visit the re-created studios of Remington and Alexander Phimister Proctor for an insight into the minds behind the magic.
Call your travel agent or Tauck at 8 -00 788-7885
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