Snakes are Us!

Hi,

I spoke with Nancy today.  She has limited internet service so she asked that I make a report.

Harry & Nancy are in Chinle.  They went out with a guide to see the cliff dwellings.  Nancy turned a corner & heard the rattle of a huge snake.  The huge snake was actually 7 or 8 snakes.  She "screamed" and saved her guide from certain DEATH.  Well, maybe she didn't quite say that.....:o)

Canyon de Chelly National Monument (də shā`) [De Chelly, Sp. corruption of Navajo Tsegi = rock canyon], 83,840 acres (33,955 hectares), NE Ariz.; est. 1931. The area contains the ruins of several hundred prehistoric Native American villages, most of them built A.D. 350–1300. The spectacular cliff dwellings include Mummy Cave, with a three-story tower house. Artifacts have been found, and there are numerous pictographs in rock shelters and on cliff faces. The earliest people living in the region were the Basket Makers Basket Makers, name given to the members of an early Native North American culture in the Southwest, predecessors of the Pueblo . Because of the cultural continuity from the Basket Makers to the Pueblos, they are jointly referred to by archaeologists as the Anasazi
.The Navajo came to the canyon c.1700, and it became their chief stronghold. In 1805 a Spanish expedition fought the Navajo in a rock shelter (dubbed Massacre Cave) in Canyon del Muerto (site of a prehistoric burial ground). In 1864 a U.S. cavalry force under Kit Carson. In 1811 he moved with his family to the Missouri frontier.

National Parks
Name Type¹ Location Year authorized Size

acres (hectares)

Description
Acadia NP SE Maine 1919 48,419 (19,603) Mountain and coast scenery.
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