Antelope Canyon

Gabriel Bouys/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images CANYON VIEW: Over many years, water slowly has worn away the sandstone to form the curves in Antelope Canyon, near Page, Ariz.

Today's Photos: August 25 2009

A SCENIC WALK TURNS DEADLYThey came from around the world to catch a glimpse of the winding pathways of Antelope Canyon.

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Whatever their motive, the Bears left Antelope Canyon

A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 Cosmos Mindeleff

Bears left Antelope Canyon, and moved over to the village of Walpi, on the terrace below the point of the mesa.

A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 Cosmos Mindeleff

There is little or no detail in the legends of the Bear people as to their life in Antelope Canyon; they can now distinguish only one ruin with certainty as having been occupied by their ancestors, while to all the other ruins fanciful names have been applied.

A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 Cosmos Mindeleff

Whatever their motive, the Bears left Antelope Canyon

Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 Various 1868

There is little or no detail in the legends of the Bear people as to their life in Antelope Canyon; they can now distinguish only one ruin with certainty as having been occupied by their ancestors, while to all the other ruins fanciful names have been applied.

Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 Various 1868

Bears left Antelope Canyon, and moved over to the village of Walpi, on the terrace below the point of the mesa.

Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 Various 1868

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Antelope Canyon and carefully stepped into small cliff rooms carved into the limestone walls of Walnut Canyon by the Sinagua Indians hundreds of years ago.

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