Pueblo Life in New Mexico - Couverture souple

Austin, Mary Hunter; Johnson, Clifton; Lawrence, D. H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798950630019

Editeur : Whitworth and I - Press, 2026

Synopsis

A collection of essays, originally published between 1891 and 1924, by Mary Austin, Clifton Johnson, D. H. Lawrence, Charles Lummis, Charles Saunders and Lilian Whiting on their travels to the American Southwest.

Early in the twentieth century, some of the great travel writers of the day visited the American Southwest and found cultural treasures unknown to most of the people in the world, and certainly to the majority of Americans clustered along the coastlines.

Their accounts were a revelation.

Today you can visit the same areas, see the same pueblos, and experience a living history of Native Americans that has been embedded in the landscape over millennia. Before you venture out, a reading of this collection of first impressions will provide a richer, deeper immersion in the history of this spectacular region and its native peoples.

From the publisher's introduction:

Beginning in the last decade of the 19th century, artists and other creative types began to gravitate to the new United States territory that has become known as the American Southwest. Painters found their way to Taos in New Mexico and artist and writer communities developed there and in nearby Santa Fe as early visitors encouraged others to come and be inspired by the beautiful light, extraordinary landscape and native cultures.

Railroad expansion had made travel to the area easier by 1880, and tourism was heavily promoted. Harvey hotels sprang up at key train stops, offering a semblance of luxury to the intrepid traveler -- and organized excursions to far-flung pueblos and other places of interest.

This is a collection of essays, articles and excerpts from the writings of a few of those early visitors -- some who came to explore but left again and some who stayed and made a home in Northern New Mexico. Written between 1891 and 1924 each conveys an early impression of the people they encountered on their travels.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Although often remembered as a nature writer, Mary Austin (1868-1934) wrote prolifically on a variety of subjects and in a variety of genres including fiction, poetry, essays and drama, in addition nonfiction. After she graduated college, her family moved from Illinois to California where she immersed herself in the study of the natural history and indigenous peoples of the Mojave Desert, became involved in the fight for water in the Owens Valley, and then settled into Carmel's artist colony. Austin first visited Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1918, and then moved there permanently in 1925, where she was active in the local arts and preservation community.

A prolific writer, photographer and illustrator, Clifton Johnson (1865-1940) wrote more than 125 books and countless articles during his long career. A self-described folklorist, he focused almost exclusively on the rural countryside and the inhabitants of small towns and farmlands in his many popular travel books. He was a friend of the naturalist John Burroughs and acquaintance of many of the authors and editors of his day.

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930). The novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist and sometime painter traveled widely in a kind of self-imposed exile from his native England. He visited New Mexico three times between September 1922 and September 1925, initially at the invitation of Mabel Dodge Luhan, who hoped the itinerant writer would find inspiration in the area's culture and landscape for a great novel. Lawrence's ranch house still stands near Taos.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Whitworth and I - Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798950630019
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 146
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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