50% of my profits from sales of this photograph on Imagekind will be contributed to the fight against Cancer. I created this photograph on a July day as a thunderhead grew during the Arizona "monsoon" season. These ruins were already ancient when the Apache named them "Tuzigoot" for the nearby meanders of the Verde river, being the site of a town built by a people we now call Sinagua (Spanish for "without water") between 1125 and 1400 AD. There Sinagua ruins throughout this region of the southwest. Louis Caywood and Edward Spicer of the University of Arizona excavated Tuzigoot from 1933 to 1935 with funding by the Federal Government. Franklin D. Roosevelt designated Tuzigoot Ruins as a U.S. National Monument on July 25, 1939.