ANCIENT MESSAGES ; Even the sun doesn't shed light on the details of hash marks sprinkled among petroglyphs in Picture Canyon

The Gazette | September 18, 2008| | Copyright

COMANCHE NATIONAL GRASSLAND

In this corner of Colorado, so far south and east you can see cows grazing in Oklahoma, the smooth swells of the prairie suddenly break on the rocks of unexpected canyon lands.

The landscape is a Georgia O'Keeffe painting: arid sandstone pastels backed up against distant blue mesas, immense, empty sky, no people anywhere.

It is here, in a narrow sandstone crevice called Crack Cave that one of the region's oldest, most mysterious messages is pecked. On the cave wall, 15 feet from the mouth, a small lump of stone juts into the passage. Dozens of hand-pecked lines ...

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