Aztec Ruins National Monument Administrative History of an Archeological Preserve
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The chapters include:
1 An Anasazi Village Misnamed Aztec
2 Earl Halstead Morris And The Aztec Ruins
3 Peeling Away Prehistory
4 A House In Ruins
5 A National Monument, Stillborn
6 The Decade Of Dissention, 1923-1933The 
7 The Great Depression & Capital     
  Improvements
8 Miller Administration, 1937-1944
9 Satellite Attractions
10 The Mission of Mission 66 
11 The Last Quarter Century And Beyond
12 Stabilization: The High Cost Of Water
13 Specimen Collections: Recent 
  Assessments And Their Significance For  
  Future Research