Just before the close of the thirteenth century the story ended. Menaced
by their enemies and with their existence threatened by the great drouth
of 1276-1299 A.D., they moved to the south and east. Gradually they
mingled with other Pueblo Indians and soon were no longer recognizable
as a Mesa Verde group. Their descendants are to be found in some of the
present-day Indian Pueblos along the Rio Grande, in New Mexico.
[Illustration: The scene pictured is from a diorama in the Mesa
Verde Museum. In this carefully reproduced cliff dwelling the former
inhabitants carry on the many activities of their daily lives.]