Mike Raglan is summoned to No Man's Mesa located in Southwestern Utah near the San Juan River by a long time friend, Erik Horkart. Mike doesn't know for sure what it's all about but thinks it may have something to do with a map given him by a prospector a year before. Raglan's investigation of the mesa turns up a gate to a parallel universe. Crossing to the other side, he finds the river boat, Iron Duke, which disappeared after the Civil War. There...

Describes what is known about the Anasazi people, the predecessors of the Pueblo Indians, looks at the ruins of their cliff dewellings, and surveys their jewelry, pottery, textiles, and baskets.

An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth which explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men.

Examines what is known about the Anasazi civilization, from the arrival of the Ancient Ones in North America 14,000 years ago to the lives of their present-day descendants, the Pueblo.

Witnessing the death of a Tanoah man during a buffalo stampede, Bureau of Land Management agent Jamaica Wild suspects that the man's demise may not have been accidental and evaluates the evidence at the side of her Pueblo surrogate grandmother.

"Most people are familiar with the famous Precolumbian civilizations of the Aztecs and Maya of Mexico, but few realize just how advanced were contemporary cultures in the American Southwest. Here lie some of the most remarkable monuments of America's prehistoric past, such as Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. Visitors marvel at the impressive ruined pueblos and spectacular cliff dwellings, but often have little idea of the cultures that produced these...

Carved from cliffs and canyons, buried in desert rock and sand are pieces of the ancient past that beckon thousands of visitors every year to the American Southwest. Whether Montezuma Castle or a chunk of pottery, these traces of prehistory also bring archaeologists from all over the world, and their work gives us fresh insight and information on an almost day-to-day basis.