Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-482) and index.

The flood -- Chaco -- Chaco Canyon -- Fajada Butte and Casa Rinconada -- Pueblo Bonito -- The road north -- Pueblo Alto -- The Great North Road -- Kutz Canyon -- The Totah -- Aztec -- Moon watchers -- Chimney Rock -- High Mesa Verde region -- Southwest Colorado -- Northern San Juan Basin -- Great Sage Plain -- Mesa Verde -- Below Sleeping Ute -- Near Hovenweep -- Southeast Utah -- Canyonlands -- The head of Comb Ridge -- The Great Wall -- Comb Ridge -- Chinle Wash -- Northeast Arizona -- Near Monument Valley -- The last cliff dwellings of the Anasazi -- Mesas of Kayenta -- The Great Pueblos -- Antelope Mesa -- Painted Desert -- Little Colorado River -- East-central Arizona -- The clock -- At the edge of the forest -- Watchtower -- Mogollon Rim -- Along the Mogollon Rim -- Salado -- Below the Mogollon Rim -- The Highland Pueblos -- Kinishba and Grasshopper -- Land's End -- Point of Pines -- Southeast Arizona -- Bonita Creek -- Safford -- Mountain of shrines -- The Pinalenos -- Northern Mexico -- The far side of Mesoamerica -- Sierra San Luis -- Paquime -- Slope of the Sierra Madre -- The Eye of Tlaloc -- Sierra Madre occidental -- Farther into the Sierra Madre -- The story the Conquistadors told -- At the western foot of the Sierra Madre.