Only a Navajo can take an outsider off the 17-mile scenic loop road that runs through Monument ... The valley soon became fixed in the popular imagination as the archetypal Western landscape ...

Monument Valley is a testament to nature's artistry and the timeless beauty of the American Southwest. This iconic landscape ...

Then there's the photograph on this page, made in 1979: a lone woman sits on a tree branch in a desolate precinct of Monument Valley, near the border of Arizona and Utah. She—not the landscape ...