Description
14" x 22" poster
Interpretive Copy
When pioneer photographer William Henry Jackson first visited this remote canyon in 1874, he called it Hovenweep. The Ute/Paiute word meaning “deserted valley” aptly described the abandoned towers built between the mid-1100s and 1275 A.D. by the ancestral Puebloans. The unique architecture of these well-preserved structures led to Hovenweep’s official designation as a national monument in 1923.