ALBUQUERQUE — Fermin Roman knew he was a pioneer when he bought his homestead on the Pajarito Mesa, a treeless plateau outside Albuquerque. But the seller assured him that water and power would ...

Wendy Schneider stood on the edge of a windy cliff in an untamed plateau near Death Valley National ... island in the sky known as Conglomerate Mesa should prove irresistible, she said, to ...

rancher Richard Wetherill and his four younger brothers stumbled across ancient ruins in the cliffs of a high plateau known as Mesa Verde. The cowboys improvised a ladder and descended to examine ...

The city’s name Mesa comes from the Spanish word for table. It got its name because the city was located on a plateau above the Valley. For some time, the city was referred to as Mesaville and ...

A great concentration of ancestral Pueblo Indian dwellings, built from the 6th to the 12th century, can be found on the Mesa Verde plateau in south-west Colorado at an altitude of more than 2,600 m.