[51] ERNEST KNEE (1907- )
Santa Fé, New Mexico
New York, 1942 [Hastings House] 10l pp.
Photographs only, simply captioned, of the City of the Holy Faith,
ancient spiritual center of the Southwest, including the nearby villages
of Cordova, Truchas, Trampas, Tesuque, and Galisteo. Brown earth, green
cottonwoods, garlands of red peppers and vari-colored corn, under an
immense cloud-capped blueness called sky, perfumed with piñon smoke
and peopled with simple folk-- this is the ambiance of northern New
Mexico evoked by these pictures.
[52] JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH (1893- )
The Desert Year
Decorations by Rudolf Freund
New York, 1952 [William Sloane Associates] 270 pp.
It was a happy day for readers about the Southwest when Professor Krutch
left Broadway for Pima County, Arizona. His philosophical mind and sharp
eye brought to bear on the natural history of the Lower Sonoran zone
produced this book of essays and a subsequent one called The Voice of
the Desert, proving anew the adage that there's no Southwesterner as
ardent as a converted one.
[53] DAVID LAVENDER (1910- )
Bent's Fort
Garden City, 1954 [Doubleday and Company] 450 pp.
At the junction of Purgatory Creek and the Arkansas River in south-eastem
Colorado, on the route to Raton Pass through the Sangre de Cristos to
Taos and Santa Fé, the Bents founded their trading fort in 1833,
center of the fur trade and vortex of the tides which were swirling
toward the conquest of New Mexico. The rich drama of the epoch has been
fully realized by the author in this readable history.
[54] D. H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930)
Mornings in Mexico
London, 1950 [William Heinemann Ltd.] 157 pp.
Three of the essays in this volume, first published in 1927, are about
Indian ceremonial dances in New Mexico and Arizona, and are good examples
of the author's sharp observation, mystical philosophy, and powerful
style. Lawrence first came to New Mexico in 1921, upon the invitation of
Mabel Dodge Luhan, acquired from her a small ranch on the shoulder of
Lobo Mountain, north of Taos, where his ashes are now enshrined, together
with those of Frieda, his wife, who outlived him twenty-six years.
[55] J. GREGG LAYNE (1885-1952)
Western Wayfaring, Routes of Exploration and Trade in the American
Southwest
Introduction by Phil Townsend Hanna; Maps by Lowell Butler
Los Angeles, 1954 [Automobile Club of Southern California] 63 pp.
First published in Westways magazine, these twenty-eight maps and
accompanying historical texts cover the principal routes of exploration
and trade in the Southwest, beginning with Pike's 1806 expedition and
concluding with the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in
1869. Brought together in book form, designed by Ward Ritchie, they
constitute an authoritative reference source. There is an index which
adds to the book's usefulness.
[56] TOM LEA (1907- )
Calendar of Twelve Travelers through the Pass of the North
Drawings and Text by Tom Lea
El Paso, 1946 [Carl Hertzog] 38 pp.
365 copies, beautifully printed by Carl Hertzog, to commemorate certain
notable characters from Cabeza de Vaca to Big Foot Wallace, who left
their imprints upon the history of El Paso, Texas.
[57] HANIEL LONG (1888-1956)
Piñon Country
New York, 1941 [Duell, Sloan & Pearce] 327 pp.
The second volume to appear in the American Folkways series (the first
was Edwin Corle's Desert Country), this work by a wise and gentle
man is marked by affection and subtle understanding. Piñon country is
the Upper Sonoran life zone of northern New Mexico and Arizona, which was
home to Haniel Long during the last thirty years of his life. He
chronicles its history, its people, and special characteristics with
luminous insight.
[58] MABEL DODGE LUHAN (1879- )
Taos and Its Artists
New York, 1947 [Duell, Sloan & Pearce] 168 pp.
Presents biographical and critical material and photographic portraits of
members of the Taos art colony through half a century, together with
reproductions of their paintings, skillfully edited by the town's most
forceful personality. Mrs. Luhan's Winter in Taos is a
characteristic book of sketches about the pueblo and its people.
[59] CARL LUMHOLTZ (1851-1922)
New Trails in Mexico; An Account of One Year's Exploration in
North-western Sonora, Mexico, and South-western Arizona 1909-10
With numerous illustrations including 2 color plates and 2 maps
New York, 1912 [Charles Scribner's Sons] 411 pp.
The Norwegian geographer and anthropologist writes here an engaging
personal narrative of the Papaguería whose sacred peak is
Baboquivari. It is a work to rank with Smeaton Chase's California
Desert Trails and Dobie's Tongues of the Monte.
[60] CHARLES F. LUMMIS (1859-1928)
Mesa, Cañon and Pueblo; Our Wonderland of the Southwest, Its
Marvels of Nature, Its Pageant of the Earth Building, Its Strange
Peoples, Its Centuried Romance
New York, 1925 [Century Company] 517 pp.
Of all the author's prolific writings about the region he was the first
to christen "The Southwest", this is the best in scope, balance, and
vigor. New England-born, Harvard-schooled, newspaper-trained, Lummis was
the most egocentric and strident booster the Southwest has ever known,
founder of the Southwest Museum, collector of regional history, champion
of the oppressed, half egomaniac, half philanthropist--superlatives fall
short when applied to this bantam rooster of a man. His works will be
read when his personality has been forgotten, such are the enduring ways
of good books.
[61] JOSEPH G. McCOY (1837-1915)
Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest
Edited by Ralph P. Bieber
Glendale, 1940 [Arthur H. Clark Company] 435 pp.
In 1867 McCoy established a market for cattle at Abilene, Kansas,
terminus of the Chisholm Trail, over which millions of head were driven
up from Texas. Outspoken and salty, this is the first of the range
histories, and the only one ever written by a participant. Published
originally in 1867, it has been reprinted several times, most recently by
Long's in 1951, but this edition, with an excellent introduction and
notes by Bieber, is the best of all.
[62] SUSAN SHELBY MAGOFFIN (1827-1855)
Down the Santa Fé Trail and Into Mexico, The Diary of Susan Shelby
Magoffin, 1846-1847
Edited by Stella M. Drumm
New Haven, 1926 [Yale University Press] 294 pp.
Basic source on "the year of decision," tenderly and shrewdly written by
a girl on her honeymoon. It was her brother-in-law, Colonel James
Magoffin, who induced Armijo to surrender Santa Fé bloodlessly to the
Americans.
[63] MABEL MAJOR (1894- )
Southwest Heritage, A Literary History with Bibliography
By Mabel Major, Rebecca W. Smith and T. M. Pearce
Rev. ed.: Albuquerque, 1948 [University of New Mexico Press] 199 pp.
An excellent survey of the many kinds of writing that have come out of
man's relationship with his environment in the Southwest, from Spanish
times to date of publication.
[64] WILLIAM LEWIS MANLY (b. 1820)
Death Valley in '49
With an introduction by Carl I. Wheat
Centennial ed.: Los Angeles, 1949 [Borden Publishing Company] 523 pp.
First published in 1894, Manly's narrative, written in his old age a
generation after the stirring events occurred, miraculously recaptured
the drama of this first tragic misadventure with one of the most
celebrated of all Southwestern desert valleys. This is an offset reprint,
illustrated from modern photographs, introduced by the authority on
overland topography.
[65] ALICE MARRIOTT (1910- )
Maria, The Potter of San Ildefonso
With drawings by Margaret Lefranc
Norman, 1948 [University of Oklahoma Press] 294 pp.
This book is about a creative woman of strong character who has become
world-famous as a ceramicist. It is by an ethnologist who writes like a
novelist, without sacrifice of truthfulness, in the same memorable vein
as her earlier The Ten Grandmothers, a book about the Kiowa
Indians of Oklahoma.
[66] ALICE MARRIOTT (1910- )
These Are the People, Some Notes on the Southwestern Indians
Santa Fé, 1949 [Laboratory of Anthropology] 67 pp.
There is no better introduction and guide to the subject than this
glowing little volume, beautifully conceived and written, and designed by
Merle Armitage.
[67] JOSEPH MILLER (1899- ) ed.
The Arizona Story
Compiled and edited from original newspaper sources; With drawings by
Ross Santee
New York, 1952 [Hastings House] 345 pp.
From the files of Arizona newspapers housed in the State Library at
Phoenix, where he works, the compiler mined these rousing stories of the
rough old times, following the volume with Arizona, the Last
Frontier in 1956. No source pans richer, as many a modern historical
novelist well knows.
[68] BALDWIN MÖLLHAUSEN (1825-1905)
Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific
with a United States Government Expedition
With an introduction by Alexander von Humboldt; Translated by Mrs. Percy
Sinnett
London, 1858 [Longman] 2 vols.
Möllhausen was the artist-naturalist with the Whipple and later with
the Ives expeditions, both in the 1850's, and could both write and draw.
This work is illustrated with chromolithographs and woodcuts, and
presents vivid views of the Southwest. Mo:llhausen went on to write some
forty-five works about the Far West, which earned him the title of the
German Fenimore Cooper.
[69] GUSTAV ERIK ADOLF NORDENSKIÖLD (1868-1895)
The Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde, Southwestern Colorado; Their
Pottery and Implements
Translated by D. Lloyd Morgan
Stockholm, 1893 [P. A. Norstedt and Söner] 174 pp.
One of the classics of Southwestern archaeology this noble folio, issued
in both English and Swedish editions, was the work of the young Swedish
baron who was drawn to the Mesa Verde by news of the Wetherills'
discovery of the cliff dwellings. The collection of artifacts which he
excavated and herein described was intended for the Royal Museum in
Stockholm, but according to one source, it remained in storage until
recently, when it found its way to a museum in Helsinki. Today the Mesa
Verde is one of the finest of the national parks and museums.
[70] JACK O'CONNOR (1902- )
Hunting in the Southwest
With illustrations by T. J. Harter
New York, 1945 [Alfred A. Knopf] 279 pp.
"In this book I have tried to communicate some of the feeling I have
about the creatures of the Southwest, as well as some of the information
I have gathered. It is frankly a book for the sportsman, for the man who
likes to go afield in the fall to harvest with gun and rifle his little
share of the annual crop of game, but whose interests are not confined
wholly to the hunting season. It is a book by a hunter for the man who
likes to know more about the game he hunts, or would like to hunt--what
it looks like, what it eats, what sort of country it lives in, what its
habits are, how it is standing the impact of civilization, and how it
best may be hunted."
[71] WALTER C. O'KANE (1877- )
The Hopis: Portrait of a Desert People
With photos in color by the author
Norman, 1953 [University of Oklahoma Press] 267 pp.
Inhabitants of the three arid mesas in northern Arizona, the Hopis are
probably the least changed of all Indians, for the reason that the white
men did not covet their barren lands. This sympathetic study of the
oldest generation of living Hopis, those then in their 80's and 90's, is
further made memorable by the twenty-four portrait photographs which
prove the truth of the poet Jeffers' lines
[72] MORRIS EDWARD OPLER (1907- )
An Apache Life-Way; The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions
of the Chiricahua Indians
Chicago, 1941 [University of Chicago Press] 500 pp.
A sympathetic and moving ethnological study of the what and why of being
an Apache Indian of the three bands which once dominated the four corners
of Arizona-New Mexico-Sonora-Chihuahua and were led by Mangus Colorado,
Victorio, Cochise, and Geronimo, and are now reduced to a few hundred
inhabitants of the Mescalero Reservation.
[73] WATERMAN L. ORMSBY (1834-1908)
The Butterfield Overland Mail
By Waterman L. Ormsby, only through passenger on the first westbound
stage;
Edited by Lyle H. Wright and Josephine M. Bynum
San Marino, 1942 [The Huntington Library] 179 pp.
In 1858 Ormsby became the first fare-paying transcontinental passenger,
and this book consists of vivid dispatches from en route to the New
York Herald, of which he was a special correspondent. The route from
St. Louis to San Francisco was via Red River, El Paso, Tucson, Fort Yuma,
and Los Angeles. The Overland Mail ended with the advent of the Civil
War.
[74] MIGUEL ANTONIO OTERO (1859-1944)
My Life on the Frontier
New York, 1935-39 [Press of the Pioneers] 2 vols.
And a rough and violent life it was, of knifings, shootings, and survival
of the most influential, told by the former territorial governor in plain
language which emphasizes the tough character of the times.
[75] JAMES O. PATTIE (b. 1804?)
The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie of Kentucky
Edited by Timothy Flint, historical introduction and foot-notes by Milo
Milton Quaife
Chicago, 1930 [R. R. Donnelley and Sons Co.] 428 pp.
Pattie was fur trading in New Mexico and California in the 1820's, and
thus his lively narrative, first published at Cincinnati in 1831 (today
of great rarity and value), is one of the earliest sources in English on
the Southwest. The reprint in Thwaites' Early Western Travels series is a
little fuller than this one in the attractive Lakeside Classics series,
but is harder to come by as a separate volume.
[76] DONALD CULROSS PEATTIE (1898- )
A Natural History of Western Trees
Illustrated by Paul Landacre
Boston, 1953 [Houghton Mifflin Company] 751 pp.
Best book on the subject by an authority whose prose style and scientific
knowledge are happily wedded, and embellished by the best of all western
wood-engravers.
[77] ROGER TORY PETERSON (1908- )
A Field Guide to Western Birds
Boston, 1941 [Houghton Mifflin Company] 240 pp.
The author's West ranges from Texas to British Columbia.
[78] H. M. T. POWELL
The Santa Fé Trail to California, 1849-1852; The Journal and
Drawings of H. M. T. Powell
Edited by Douglas S. Watson
San Francisco, 1931 [Book Club of California] 272 pp.
Detailed and readable, in noble format by the Grabhorn Press, this is one
of the most beautiful books of our times.
[79] FREDERIC REMINGTON (1861-1909)
Crooked Trails
Written and illustrated by Frederic Remington
New York, 1898 [Harper & Brothers] 150 pp.
That Remington could write as well as draw is evident from this book of
Southwest sketches, including several on the Apaches and the Army's
efforts to subdue them.
[80] BERT ROBINSON (1889- )
The Basket Weavers of Arizona
Photographs by Robert H. Peebles
Albuquerque, 1954 [Universitv of New Mexico Press] 164 pp.
From the abundant literature on aboriginal basketry this monograph on the
eight basket-weaving tribes of Arizona has been selected for several
reasons: it is authentic, the author having lived with the Indians for
thirty years, part of the time as Superintendent of the Pima Reservation,
and being of obvious deep sympathy with them; and it is historical rather
than technical, and is beautifully illustrated from color and black and
white photographs. Except for the Pomos of Northern California, the
basket makers of Arizona, from the desert tribes in the south to the
canyon and mesa tribes of the north, represent the apogee of this most
ancient of the textile arts.
[81] PHILIP ASHTON ROLLINS (1869- )
The Cowboy, An Unconventional History of Civilization on the Old-Time
Cattle Range
New York, 1936 [Charles Scribner's Sons] 402 pp.
More than the classic history of the cowboy, his work and his ways,
Rollins' book is a philosophical interpretation of the frontier that
ensures it a central place among Western Americana. First published in
1922, this third revised edition adds data on many points and contains
new illustrations.
[82] MARIAN SLOAN RUSSELL (1845-1937)
Land of Enchantment, Memoirs of Marian Russell Along the Santa Fe
Trail
As dictated to Mrs. Hal Russell
Edited by Garnet M. Brayer
Decorations by David T. Vernon
Evanston, 1954 [Branding Iron Press] 155 pp.
Near the end of her long life the author dictated memories of it to her
daughter-in-law, going clear back to her life at Santa Fé in the
1850's, with reminiscences of Archbishop Lamy and Kit Carson, and on past
the murder of her husband by Maxwell deputies in the struggle for that
famous land grant, to her final sixty-three years on a ranch near
Trinidad, Colorado. The result is one of the most poetic and tender of
all Southwestern books.
[83] TRENT ELWOOD SANFORD (1897- )
The Architecture of the Southwest; Indian, Spanish, American
New York, 1950 [W. W. Norton and Co.] 312 pp.
One of the best interpretations of the Southwest, in terms of the
dwellings and churches man has built, Indian, Spanish, and American, from
Texas to Monterey, containing much on the history and landscape,
beautifully illustrated from photographs. The Prologue, "why is the
Southwest" is an excellent definition of the region.
[84] ROSS SANTEE (1889- )
Apache Land
New York, 1947 [Charles Scribner's Sons] 216 pp.
The best of all modern writers about Southern Arizona, Santee gathers
here rich lore of Apache warriors and their bloody land, and illustrates
the book with his characteristic black and white drawings which perfectly
complement the text.
[85] CHARLES A. SIRINGO (1855-1928)
A Texas Cowboy; Or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish
Pony, Taken from Real Life
With bibliographical study and introduction by J. Frank Dobie
and drawings by Tom Lea
New York, 1950 [William Sloane Associates] 198 pp.
First and best of all cowboy autobiographies, the original 1885 edition
of which is now of great rarity, Siringo's rough and ready yarn, written
solely, the author admits, to make money, is here royally introduced by
"Pancho" Dobie, who ranks with it only one other cowboy book, E. C.
"Teddy Blue" Abbott's We Pointed Them North.
[86] JEDEDIAH SMITH (1798-1831)
The Travels of Jedediah Smith, A Documentary Outline Including the
Journal of the Great American Pathfinder
By Maurice S. Sullivan
Santa Ana, California, 1934 [Fine Arts Press] 195 pp.
Fur Trader Smith was the first American to make a recorded journey
overland from Missouri to Southern California, arriving at Mission San
Gabriel in 1826 and being coldly received. This long lost fragmentary
transcript of the original journal, though without literary merit, has
value as a first-hand record of pioneering. Smith was killed by the
Comanches in what is now Southwestern Kansas.
[87] WALLACE STEGNER (1909- )
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, John Wesley Powell and the Second
Opening of the West
With an introduction by Bernard DeVoto
Boston, 1954 [Houghton Mifflin Company] 438 pp.
An indignant biography of Major Powell, the man who first explored the
Colorado River, founded the United States Geological Survey and Bureau of
Ethnology, fathered reclamation of the arid western lands, and was one of
the Homeric figures of the Southwest.
[88] MARTHA SUMMERHAYES (1846-1911)
Vanished Arizona, Recollections of My Army Life
Edited by Milo Milton Quaife
Chicago, 1939 [Lakeside Press] 337 pp.
As a New England bride Mrs. Summerhayes came to Arizona in the 1870's
with her lieutenant husband, and years later when she published the first
edition of her memoirs in 1908 the wide response it evoked astonished
her. A revised edition followed in 1911. This posthumous edition in the
Lakeside Classics is the most readily available on the second-hand
market, although it too is now becoming scarce. Still another edition is
called for, preferably edited by an Arizonian. The book is a classic of
army life on the frontier seen through a woman's eyes.
[89] DON C. TALAYESVA (1890- )
Sun Chief, The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian
Edited by Leo W. Simmons
New Haven, 1942 [Yale University Press] 460 pp.
In spite of the editor's sociological apparatus and jargon this is a
moving account of the first half century of a Hopi chieftain's life,
frank in every aspect, and unlike any white man's story. The method was
for Don to keep a diary which the editor then read back to him and added
the subject's comments, and finally gave continuity and smoothness to the
narrative. The result is admittedly artificial and yet unique in the
insight it affords into the Indian mind.
[90] CHARLES WAYLAND TOWNE (1875- )
Shepherd's Empire
By Charles Wayland Towne and Edward Norris Wentworth,
with drawings by Harold D. Bugbee
Norman, 1945 [University of Oklahoma Press] 364 pp.
In spite of overstriving for cuteness and odd words, the authors have
written the best general work on sheep in the Southwest, from their
introduction by the conquistadors to the present, historically accurate
and packed with anecdote. Bugbee's black and white drawings add much to
the book's interest.
[91] RALPH EMERSON TWITCHELL (1859-1925)
The Spanish Archives of New Mexico
Compiled and chronologically arranged with historical, genealogical,
geographical, and other annotations, by authority of the State of New
Mexico
Cedar Rapids, 1914 [Torch Press] 2 vols.
These massive volumes are a synopsis of the records which during
territorial days were transferred for reasons of safety to the Library of
Congress. Although the earliest records were nearly all destroyed in the
Pueblo Revolt of 1680, the re-accumulation began twelve years later with
the reconquest of northern New Mexico by Vargas. They are a mine of
information, worked by historians, lawyers, politicians, and novelists.
[92] RUTH MURRAY UNDERHILL (1884- )
The Navajos
Norman, 1956 [University of Oklahoma Press] 299 pp.
The long and complex history of the vicissitudes of The People,
beautifully told by a long time Indian Service ethnologist in whose style
jargon plays no part. Largest of all the Indian tribes, the Navajos have
had a history of abrupt transitions, from nomads to farmers and
pastoralists, raiders and wards-in-exile, to their present status as owners
of some of the country's richest uranium deposits.
[93] RUTH MURRAY UNDERHILL (1884- )
Singing for Power, The Song Magic of the Papago Indians of Southern
Arizona
Berkeley, 1938 [University of California Press] 158 pp.
The Papagos are a gentle, poetic branch of the Aztec race, known to
themselves as the Bean People. They have never warred with the whites,
are given to soft speech and laughter, and to expressing these emotions
in songs. Miss Underhill has gathered and translated these ceremonials in
a little book of great beauty, illustrated from drawings by Indian boys.
[94] GASPAR PEREZ DE VILLAGRA (d. 1620)
History of New Mexico
Translated by Gilberto Espinosa;
introduction and notes by F. W. Hodge
Los Angeles, 1933 [Quivira Society] 308 pp.
The first translation into English of the epic poem by a member of
Oñate's expedition which destroyed the rocky pueblo of Acoma. The
high-flown rhetoric of the Spanish, first published at Madrid in
1600, is rendered in prose translation, there are intensive notes by
Hodge, and the volume is illustrated from modern photographs of Acoma.
Time has smoothed the edges of what was probably the most cruel and
unjustified episode in all the Spanish annals of cruelty and destruction.
[95] EDWARD S. WALLACE (1897- )
The Great Reconnaissance; Soldiers, Artists, and Scientists on the
Frontier, 1848-1861
Boston, 1955 [Little, Brown & Co.] 288 pp.
"This is the informal story of the men who explored, surveyed, and mapped
our new boundary with Mexico after 1848, and then the huge area within
it, before the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861; and of those who blazed
the trails for wagon roads and railroads through this land to the Pacific
Coast. Also, it tells of the accompanying artists who sketched, painted,
and photographed the Indians, the landmarks, and the scenery; and the
scientists who collected, classified, and meticulously illustrated the
flora and fauna in those vast regions." Author's preface.
[96] FRANK WATERS (1902- )
The Colorado
Illustrated by Nikolai Fechin,
maps by George Annand
New York, 1946 [Rinehart and Company] 400 pp.
The "practical realists" of Western Americana, those cold-blooded,
narrow-eyed men who deal in points and pages and would flatten literature
onto the gridiron of longitude and latitude, these bibliographical
barbarians have objected to Novelist Waters turning geographer-historian,
in this book in the Rivers of America series about the greatest
Southwestern river of them all, the Rio Colorado, named by Garcés who
first descended to its bed at Havasupai Falls.
What Waters sought was the mystical spirit of the Colorado and the
enormous area it drains, and his book is an imaginative interpretation,
as well as a history, distinguished by some of the most powerful of all
writing about the Southwest. The final chapters on the water problem
along the lower stretches of the river are impartial, which will make
them suspect in Southern California.
[97] WALTER PRESCOTT WEBB (1888- )
The Great Plains
Boston, 1931 [Ginn and Company] 345 pp.
One of the most fecundating works on the Southwest since Turner's study
of the frontier in American history, and Powell's report on the arid
lands. A list of the chapter headings will indicate the book's scope: The
Physical Basis of the Great Plains Environment, The Plains Indians,
The Spanish Approach to the Great Plains, The American Approach to the
Great Plains, The Cattle Kingdom, Transportation and Fencing, The Search
for Water, New Laws for Land and Water, The Literature of the Great
Plains, The Mysteries of the Great Plains in American Life.
[98] PAUL I. WELLMAN (1898- )
Glory, God, and Gold, A Narrative History
Garden City, 1954 [Doubleday & Co.] 402 pp.
A chronological history of the American Southwest, from Louisiana, Texas,
New Mexico, and Arizona to and not including California, narrating the
cruel and bloody story of Spanish cross and crown against the heathen,
sympathetic to the aborigines while admiring the bravery of the Spanish.
Wellman is a capable narrator and novelist, and he tells this
several-centuried story with skill and insight.
[99] WRITERS' PROGRAM, ARIZONA
Arizona, the Grand Canyon State; A State Guide
Completely revised by Joseph Miller;
edited by Henry G. Alsberg
New York, 1956 [Hastings House] 532 pp.
[100] WRITERS' PROGRAM, NEW MEXICO
New Mexico, A Guide to the Colorful State
New, revised edition by Joseph Miller;
edited by Henry G. Alsberg
New York, 1953 [Hastings House] 471 pp.
Compiled originally by the W.P.A. in the Depression of the 1930's, these
and other state and city guides form a national encyclopedia of the
U.S.A. The volumes on Arizona and New Mexico are among the best of all in
the quality of writing and beauty of photographic illustration. The
Arizona guide was originally edited by Ross Santee. Both works are basic
and indispensable.
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