PIÑON COUNTRY [SOLD]

PIÑON COUNTRY

By Haniel Long

Edited by Erskine Caldwell

Publisher: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, New York, 1941

First Edition, hardback, 1941. Green fabric cover with design of southwest scenes on cover, 327 pages, end-paper maps front and back covers, no jacket.

FROM THE FLYLEAF

“Canyons, caverns, walking red rain, great rocks like ships, and covered wagons on the horizon are part of the inheritance of the Piñon Country of the Southwest, whose colorful assembly of peoples includes the Navajo, Mormons, Pueblos, Spanish American, and United States Americans.  This region is a work of its own—where because water is scarce people have always had to plan together, where nature has created such wonders as the Grand Canyon and the Carlsbad Caverns, the land of Kit Carson and the pioneer printing presses and Billy the Kid and Bronson Cutting.

“In this second of the American Folkways books, Haniel Long presents a picturesque part of America.  This Upper Sonoran country has a longer and more dramatic history than any other part of the United States. From the time of the first Spanish explorers and colonists, through robust pioneer days, down to the present.  The country, with its climate and topography, its rigors and its grandeurs, has shaped men more than it has been shaped by them, and it has always been a place of legends and brave chronicles.  Of special interest, however, is the democracy of the region, a democracy imposed by the necessities of life but understood and deeply loved by the people there.

“Remarkably, the contemporary chapters of the Southwest’s story are fully as colorful and striking as pages of the past.  Here are told some of the adventures of Detective Martin, stories of the marijuana evil and of the new peyote religion, accounts of recent governmental influence (in a chapter called ‘Too Many New Deals’), a story based on the institutionalization of Billy the Kid, the troubled history of the Gallup riot, and many others.”

CONTENTS

1.      Water

2.      Weather

3.      Piñones

4.      Núñez

5.      Estevanico

6.      Coronado

7.      Pueblo Indians

8.      Maize

9.      Oñate

10.  Two Centuries and More

11.  Nambe

12.  Augustin Huerta

13.  Marijuana

14.  This Business of Pardons

15.  Bronson Cutting

16.  Carson

17.  The Mormon Battalion

18.  Snowflake

19.  The Pioneer Presses

20.  The Kid

21.  The Bandits

22.  The Canyon

23.  People Lost

24.  The Cavern

25.  Peyote

26.  Too Many New Deals

27.  Sand-Paintings

28.  Schlatter

29.  The Gallup Riot

30.  Stories by Way of Epilogue

Condition: Cover in very good condition with minor fading to cover spine.  Very good interior pages.