Prehistoric villages, castles, and towers of southwestern Colorado

"Prehistoric Villages, Castles, and Towers of Southwestern Colorado" by Jesse Walter Fewkes is a nonfiction book that looks at old buildings in southwestern Colorado to learn about the people who lived there a long time ago. It's like a report from the early 1900s that talks about what archaeologists found in that area and why it's important. The book tells us about the Cliff-dwellers and Pueblos and what their lives were like before anyone wrote down their history. The author wants to give us a good look at the villages, towers, and castles they made, so we can understand how they built them and what their culture was like. The story begins with a discussion of how archaeology can help understand how people developed and lived in societies. The author says that southwestern Colorado is special because they developed unique buildings before Europeans arrived. The author talks about what he saw when he explored the area in 1917 and 1918, and focuses on places, such as, Surouaro and Goodman Point. The author wants to divide the buildings into different types, like villages and cliff-dwellings; and explains that we need to learn even more to understand these old civilizations.