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Drawings By Barton A. Wright. With Keys For The Identification Of Species.

Montezuma Castle National Monument (N.M.) and Tuzigoot National Monument (N.M.), Montezuma Castle, Natural and Cultural Resources Management Plan B1; Montezuma Castle Statement for Management (1978) B2; Tuzigoot Natural and Cultural Resources Management Plan B3; Tuzigoot Statement for Management (1978) B4; Master Plan (1973) B5; Master Plan, Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) (1973) B6; Master Plan, Environmental Assessment (EA) B7; Final Master Plan B8; Annual Statement for Interpretation and Visitor Service (1982)

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 54


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This imposing cliff dwelling near Montezuma Well in Arizona's Verde Valley was built not by Montezuma's Aztecs, but by fourteenth-century Sinagua farmers. Photos by George H. H. Huey, Larry Lindahl, Tom Bean, and Paul Berquist.
The mysterious cliff dwelling known as Montezuma Castle has overlooked Arizona's Verde Valley for over 900 years. Originally thought to have been built by the ancient Aztecs, later research proved it to be the handiwork of a long-vanished people named the Sinagua. They inhabited the site for over three centuries and then simply walked away to be lost in the mists of time. In this volume, the author traces the history of Montezuma Castle through its construction, abandonment, later discovery, and the diligent efforts of many individuals and organizations to restore and preserve it for future generations. In 1906, Montezuma Castle was designated one of the country's first national monuments by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt. Arizona was still a territory at that time, six years away from becoming the 48th state in the Union.
MONTEZUMA CASTLE, a pueblo ruin in the Verde River valley of central Arizona, has no connection with the Aztec emperor whose name it bears. The name was given by early settlers in the Verde Valley in the belief that the striking 5-story ruin with its 20 rooms had been built by Aztec refugees, fleeing from central Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest. It follows naturally that the small lake inside a hill 7 miles away should be named Montezuma Well. While the story of the flight is known to be false, the names remain. The aboriginal builders of the Castle left no records, but they did leave broken pottery, trash, and other debris of their everyday life. The analysis of this material tells us that these people, whom we call Sinagua (see glossary), were peaceful farmers who occupied this area from the 1100's until the 1400's; that they were similar in physical type to many of today's Pueblo peoples in northern Arizona and New Mexico; and that they differed somewhat in their daily life from their neighbors in the desert to the south and in the mountains and plateaus to the north. This is their story, and we hope that it can take you back in your mind's eye to the time when their fingers left marks as they plastered the walls of Montezuma Castle, and to the time when their fires left the smoke deposits you still see on those walls. But this story must begin with the land itself....