The Homestead Act, enacted during the time of the Civil War, allowed for any U.S. citizen, or would-be citizen, to claim 160 acres of government land, provided they worked to improve the land through cultivation and other means, among other caveats. In the early 1890s, Charles Ludwig Veit, a german immigrant, claimed his 160 acres …
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This small cave holds a spring inside. At the very end of the cave, water slowly trickles out from a hole in the rock, and into an artificial reservoir made of concrete. You can see the mouth of a metal pipe in the middle of the pool of water, then cutting through the concrete, and …
If you follow me on Social Media, these hand pictographs might look familiar to you. Not too long ago I shared a similar photo of a number of red hand graphs, but in Sedona (seen below). More than coincidence, these 2 sites are likely connected by the same tribeโthe Sinagua. Different tribes often used different …