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Petrified wood embeded in the Rock wall  
   

Petrified wood embeded in the Rock wall

Canyon Pintado National Historic District , Rangely, CO

March 31st 2012
The Canyon Pintado National Historic District includes hundreds of archaeological sites, most deriving from the (c. AD 0 Fremont Culture –1300) and Ute (c. AD 1300–1881) occupations of the Douglas Creek canyon. The name “Canyon Pintado,” meaning “Painted Canyon,” comes from the journal of Frey Francisco Silvestre Velez de Escalante. As a chronicler of the 1776 Escalante-Dominguez Exped ... read more
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