LCC
F801 L95 1975
Description
"Sun, silence and adobe--that is New Mexico in three words." The opening sentence to a collection of extraordinary essays on the history of the territory that has become the U.S. state of New Mexico, by a pioneering journalist/archæologist/ethnographer who spent much of his adult life living among pueblo people of the region. This book on "The Land of Pretty Soon" is a much under-appreciated classic of U.S. historical writing.
Publication
University of New Mexico Press, 1975 reprint, paperback. Other editions published in 1893, 1921, 1928 (Charles Scribner's' Sons) , and 1952 (UNM Press).
Subjects
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