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The extraordinary disappearance of the Anasazi/Mongollon cliff dwellers from the American southwest has been well documented but never solved. Why Native Americans who lived and prospered peacefully on the mesa tops for thousands of years suddenly abandoned these villages for precarious cities lodged in the cliffs around the year 1200 — and for only a period of some two hundred years, before disappearing — remained a mystery, until now.

K ’’aalógii held her mother’s hand as they wound their way through the darkened passageway leading out of the remote mountain stronghold. She climbed the hand-carved steps that rose to the forest floor with her head held high, knowing — and accepting — that it would be her last time.

Her name, which meant butterfly, had been a gift from her father. He had always said that when she was born he’d felt such joy that he could have stepped into air from the cliff-dwelling and flown like a butterfly. The happiest day of his life, he had told her many times.

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