Harvey Fergusson — Blood of the Conquerors (1921), Wolf Song (1927), the Followers of the Sun Trilogy & the Berkeley Years

By Josh Eldred · New Mexico Literacy Project · · ~6,000 words

Last verified May 2026 · Original research by Josh Eldred

In 1921 Alfred A. Knopf in New York published a first novel by a thirty-one-year-old former Washington political reporter who had grown up at La Glorieta on Central Avenue in Albuquerque. Blood of the Conquerors followed Don Ramon Delcasar, a young Hispano patrón of late-nineteenth-century New Mexico, into his last stand against Anglo land-grabbing — and was the first of three Knopf novels that the author would publish across the 1920s as a self-conscious trilogy he titled Followers of the Sun. Six years later the second novel, Wolf Song, became a Victor Fleming Paramount film starring Gary Cooper and Lupe Vélez. In 1932 a third Knopf title from the same author, Hot Saturday, became Cary Grant's first leading-man role in another Paramount film. The author was Harvey Fergusson — brother of Erna Fergusson and Francis Fergusson, son of the New Mexico Congressman who had won statehood-foundation school lands for the territory, and the foundational Anglo-perspective novelist of nineteenth-century New Mexico Hispano-Anglo collision. He died in Berkeley, California on August 27, 1971. This is the collector's reference.

Albuquerque to Washington to Berkeley: A Life

Harvey Fergusson (January 28, 1890 — August 27, 1971, closed pool) was born in Albuquerque, the second of four children of Harvey Butler Fergusson (1848-1915), the prominent Albuquerque attorney and US Congressman, and Clara Mary Huning Fergusson (1865-1950), daughter of German-immigrant Albuquerque merchant Franz Huning (1827-1905). His older sister Erna Fergusson (1888-1964) was the author of Dancing Gods, Pageant of Three Peoples, and Erna Fergusson's Albuquerque (documented at /erna-fergusson-dancing-gods-collecting); his younger brother Francis Fergusson (1904-1986) was the Princeton literary critic of The Idea of a Theater; his younger sister Lina ("Li") Fergusson Browne was the artist who illustrated Erna's 1947 Merle Armitage Albuquerque book.

The four Fergusson children grew up at La Glorieta, the family home at 1801 Central Avenue NW that Franz Huning had deeded to Clara on her 1887 marriage to Harvey Butler Fergusson — the house that still stands as the Manzano Day School in the Country Club neighborhood west of downtown Albuquerque. The Fergusson children grew up two blocks from their grandfather's elaborate 1883 Huning Castle (demolished 1955) on the same Central Avenue corridor.

Harvey Fergusson graduated from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia in 1911. He moved to Washington, D.C. and built a substantial early journalism career across the 1910s: staff reporter for the Washington Herald; brief reporting stints at Savannah and Richmond papers; Washington bureau correspondent for the Chicago Record-Herald (which he left in 1915 to assist columnist Frederic Haskin's national syndication operation). The Washington years gave Fergusson the political-and-social material that would later become Capitol Hill (Knopf 1923) and that would inform his late non-fiction work on American political culture in People and Power (Morrow 1947).

In 1923 — at age thirty-three, two years after the publication of Blood of the Conquerors — Fergusson left journalism for full-time fiction. He had two periods of substantial New Mexico residence across the next twenty years (returning regularly to Albuquerque and to research the Followers of the Sun trilogy material at Pueblo and Hispano village sites), but his physical base across the 1920s and 1930s was the East Coast. In the early 1940s he relocated to Berkeley, California, and spent the rest of his life there. The Berkeley years produced four substantial books — Home in the West (1945 autobiography), People and Power (1947), Grant of Kingdom (1950), and The Conquest of Don Pedro (1954) — and consolidated the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley as the eventual home of his literary papers.

Marriages. Fergusson married first in 1919; the marriage ended in divorce a few years later. He married second in 1927 to the cartoonist Rebecca McCann; McCann died of pneumonia later in 1927 — the loss occurred during the year of Wolf Song's publication and was a defining personal event of the late 1920s. Fergusson lived as a widower and across subsequent companions through his later California years.

Fergusson was a Guggenheim Fellow — the standard mid-century recognition for serious American novelists working on long-form projects — and was a member of the broad Knopf author circle that defined American literary fiction in the 1920s through 1940s.

Blood of the Conquerors (Knopf 1921) — The First Novel

Blood of the Conquerors (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1921 first edition) was Harvey Fergusson's first novel. The book was written during his late Washington D.C. journalism years and during his transition out of full-time journalism; it was published by Knopf in 1921, two years before Fergusson formally left journalism for fiction.

The novel follows Don Ramon Delcasar, a young Hispano patrón of late-nineteenth-century New Mexico whose family land grant, social position, and cultural authority are gradually displaced by Anglo commercial interests — railroad-era merchants, Anglo lawyers exploiting the land-grant title-claim litigation, and the broader cultural pressure of the post-1880 American Southwest. Fergusson's narrative is sympathetic to Don Ramon but unsentimental about the inevitability of the displacement — a pose that anticipates by twenty-five years the later "Hispano-Anglo collision" framing of mid-century New Mexico historiography.

Blood of the Conquerors is consistently cited as one of the earliest serious American novels to take the Hispano New Mexico experience as its central subject from a sympathetic-but-outside perspective. It is read as a predecessor to Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927, six years later — see /willa-cather-death-comes-archbishop-collecting), as one of the foundational Anglo-perspective texts that anticipated the later Chicano-and-Nuevomexicano literary tradition, and as the opening volume of Fergusson's own Followers of the Sun trilogy.

Points of issue for the 1921 Knopf first edition:

  1. Alfred A. Knopf imprint on title page with Borzoi colophon (Knopf's small printer's mark featuring a Russian wolfhound).
  2. 1921 copyright page with first-edition designation; no subsequent printing indicators.
  3. Original Knopf cloth binding (typically dark cloth with gilt-stamped spine — Knopf's standard early-1920s cloth-and-gilt trade format).
  4. Original Knopf dust jacket — scarce. The 1921 Knopf list was published before the dust jacket had become consistently retained by book buyers; surviving 1921 Knopf jackets are uncommon and command meaningful premium.

Reprintings: Blood of the Conquerors was reprinted in the Knopf Followers of the Sun omnibus volume (which combined the three trilogy novels in a single volume) and has been kept in print across the twentieth century in UNM Press, Bison Books, and academic-press editions. The 1921 Knopf first with original dust jacket is the apex Harvey Fergusson collector trophy.

Wolf Song (Knopf 1927) and the 1929 Gary Cooper Paramount Film

Wolf Song (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1927 first edition) is the second Followers of the Sun trilogy novel and Fergusson's most cinematically vivid book. The novel is set in the 1830s Bent's Fort / Taos / Santa Fe fur-trade economy, and follows mountain man Sam Lash through his rendezvous-season trapping trips, his entry into Taos society, his romance with the young Hispano woman Lola Salazar, and the conflict between his trapper's freedom and his commitment to Lola. The novel is a substantial period piece on the Mexican-era Santa Fe Trail and Rocky Mountain trapping economy — Bent's Fort as the trading entrepôt of the southern Rockies along the Santa Fe Trail, Taos as the Mexican-period crossroads where Anglo mountain men, Hispano patrones, and Pueblo communities met, and the gradual displacement of all three economies by the railroad-era commercial Southwest.

The 1929 Paramount film. Paramount Pictures adapted Wolf Song in 1929. The film was directed by Victor Fleming — who would direct Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz ten years later in 1939 — and starred Gary Cooper as Sam Lash and Mexican actress Lupe Vélez as Lola Salazar. The film was a substantial early-talkie Cooper leading role and a notable Pre-Code production (it included a nude bathing scene). The production used the new part-talkie format — synchronized score and sound effects on a silent picture, with limited dialogue — that bridged silent and full sound across the 1928-1930 transition.

The film was not shot on location in New Mexico despite the novel's Taos and Bent's Fort settings. Paramount built recreated sets at the Paramount Ranch in Calabasas, California (representing Bent's Fort and the Taos plaza), and used location work at June Lake Lodge in Mono County, California (representing the high Rocky Mountain trapping country). This was the standard Hollywood production approach of the late 1920s — period New Mexico sets were built in California rather than traveled to.

Wolf Song first edition points of issue. Knopf imprint on title page with Borzoi colophon; 1927 copyright page with first-edition designation; original Knopf cloth binding; original Knopf dust jacket. The 1927 Wolf Song dust jacket is documented by specialist Western Americana dealers (Lorne Bair Rare Books and others) as "very uncommon" — surviving jacketed copies are scarce and trade at meaningful premium over unjacketed firsts. The Gary Cooper film association adds collector demand from the substantial Cary Grant / Gary Cooper / pre-1935 Paramount film collector community.

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In Those Days (Knopf 1929) — The Trilogy's Close

In Those Days: An Impression of Change (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1929 first edition) is the third novel of the Followers of the Sun trilogy and the most explicitly retrospective. The protagonist is an aging Anglo merchant looking back across the half-century during which Las Vegas, New Mexico transformed from a small Mexican-frontier village on the eastern edge of the Hispano patrón country into a railroad-era commercial town, with the parallel transformation of the Hispano social order into the Anglo cattle-and-banking economy that displaced it.

Las Vegas, NM — not to be confused with the Nevada Las Vegas, which did not exist as a city until 1905 — was a substantial 1840s-1880s American Southwest commercial town, located on the Santa Fe Trail east of Santa Fe at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The 1879 arrival of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway at Las Vegas made the town one of the principal early Anglo commercial centers in New Mexico Territory. By the 1880s Las Vegas was the largest town in New Mexico — larger than Santa Fe or Albuquerque — and the focus of much of the Anglo-Hispano cultural and economic friction of the late territorial period. Fergusson's choice of Las Vegas as the setting for the trilogy's closing volume reflects this — the town was the most concentrated nineteenth-century site of Anglo-Hispano commercial encounter in New Mexico.

The 1929 Knopf first with original dust jacket is the principal Tier 1 In Those Days collector target. The novel closes the trilogy with the elegiac historical-survey approach that the trilogy's overall design had built toward across three generations of New Mexico's nineteenth-century transition.

Hot Saturday (Knopf 1926) and the 1932 Cary Grant Paramount Film

Hot Saturday (Alfred A. Knopf, 1926 first edition) is Fergusson's contemporary-novel of small-town Anglo social life and the destructive power of gossip — a sharp departure in subject and tone from the historical New Mexico novels that anchor the rest of his career. The plot follows small-town bank clerk Ruth Brock who is socially destroyed by gossip after taking a single Saturday afternoon car ride with the local playboy Romer Sheffield. The novel is a sharply written social satire on small-town American respectability in the 1920s, and is most often read in the Cary Grant film context rather than as part of the Fergusson literary canon.

The 1932 Paramount film. Paramount Pictures adapted Hot Saturday in 1932. The film was directed by William A. Seiter and is significant in film history as Cary Grant's first leading-man role; Grant plays the playboy Romer Sheffield. Nancy Carroll plays Ruth Brock and Randolph Scott appears in a supporting role. The film is Pre-Code Hollywood and is the moment of Grant's transition from supporting roles into the leading-man status that would define the next thirty years of his career. The Hot Saturday film is a regular feature of Cary Grant filmography retrospectives and of Pre-Code Hollywood scholarship.

The 1926 Knopf first of the novel is a Tier 2 Harvey Fergusson collector target — the book is less collected for itself than for the Cary Grant association, which makes signed and jacketed first editions desirable to Grant film collectors as well as to Fergusson collectors. Modern dealer pricing reflects the dual collector market.

Rio Grande (Knopf 1933) and the Non-Fiction Bibliography

Rio Grande (Alfred A. Knopf, 1933 first edition) is Harvey Fergusson's substantial non-fiction historical-cultural survey of the Rio Grande Valley from its headwaters in the Colorado Rockies, through New Mexico, to its discharge into the Gulf of Mexico at the Texas-Mexico border. The book is a book-length essay on the cultural-historical layering of the river basin across Pueblo, Spanish colonial, Mexican, and Anglo American periods — a compressed interpretive treatment that runs at substantially shorter length than the comparable later Paul Horgan two-volume Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History (Rinehart 1954, the Pulitzer Prize for History 1955).

Rio Grande is often cited as Fergusson's best non-fiction work and is the most-collected Fergusson title for collectors building a New Mexico historical-survey library rather than a fiction library. The 1933 Knopf first with original dust jacket is the principal Tier 1 Rio Grande collector target; fine signed firsts with original Knopf dust jacket trade meaningfully higher than unsigned firsts.

Companion non-fiction. Modern Man: His Belief and Behavior (1936) is Fergusson's non-fiction essay on contemporary American man — a substantial period meditation on individual identity and social structure. People and Power: A Study of Political Behavior in America (William Morrow 1947) is Fergusson's late non-fiction analysis of American political culture in the immediate postwar period — written in Berkeley during his California years.

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The Broader 1920s-1930s Bibliography

Capitol Hill (Knopf 1923 first edition). Fergusson's second novel and the New Mexico-to-Washington bridge book — a Washington political-and-social novel drawing on his decade as a Washington reporter. The Knopf first is a Tier 2 collector target with significant interest from Washington-history collectors as well as Fergusson collectors.

Women and Wives (Knopf 1924 first edition). Fergusson's third Knopf novel, a contemporary social novel. Tier 2 collector market.

Footloose McGarnigal (Knopf 1930 first edition). A contemporary novel of Western itinerancy. Modest collector market; Tier 2.

The Life of Riley (1937). Late-1930s novel; modest collector market.

The Berkeley Years: Home in the West, Grant of Kingdom, Conquest of Don Pedro

Harvey Fergusson moved from New Mexico to Berkeley, California in the early 1940s and spent the rest of his life in California, though he continued to write about New Mexico subject matter throughout the Berkeley decades. The move was partly economic (Berkeley's lower cost of living and proximity to UC Berkeley's research library), partly literary-circle (a substantial mid-century American novelist community had settled in the Berkeley-Oakland area), and partly personal (Fergusson's social and romantic networks were on the West Coast by the early 1940s).

Home in the West: An Inquiry into My Origins (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, New York, 1945 first edition) is Fergusson's autobiography — a substantial memoir of the Albuquerque childhood at La Glorieta, the Huning Castle and his German-immigrant grandfather Franz Huning, the Fergusson family's Hispano-and-Anglo Albuquerque social world, his father's Congressional career, his Washington and Lee years, the Washington journalism years, and the move to fiction in 1923. Home in the West is the principal primary source for Fergusson's life and is read alongside Erna Fergusson's Albuquerque (1947) as the foundational Fergusson family autobiographical record.

Grant of Kingdom (William Morrow, New York, 1950 first edition) is Fergusson's late historical novel based on Lucien Maxwell (1818-1875), the Taos mountain man and entrepreneur who across the 1840s through 1860s came to control the Maxwell Land Grant — the 1.7-million-acre Mexican-period land grant in northeastern New Mexico and southern Colorado, a region whose Hispano communities would later generate their own literary tradition that became the largest single-owner private landholding in the American West. The Maxwell Land Grant was the focus of the late-1870s and 1880s land-grant violence (the Colfax County War, the Stonewall Valley war) and of the long Maxwell Land Grant Company litigation that ran through the federal courts into the 1890s. Grant of Kingdom is Fergusson's most-collected late-career novel and is widely cited in Maxwell Land Grant scholarship as a major fictional interpretation of Maxwell and the grant. The 1950 Morrow first with original dust jacket is a Tier 1 NM collector target.

The Conquest of Don Pedro (William Morrow, New York, 1954 first edition) is Fergusson's final novel — the late return to Hispano-Anglo New Mexico subject matter that had anchored the Followers of the Sun trilogy nearly thirty years earlier. The novel runs to the same elegiac key as the trilogy's close in In Those Days. The 1954 Morrow first is a Tier 2 collector target with strong interest from completionist Fergusson collectors.

Archives, Biography, and Scholarship

The principal Harvey Fergusson literary archive is the Harvey Fergusson Papers, 1906-1953, at the Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley. The Bancroft is the primary archive consistent with Fergusson's 1942-1971 California residency — his manuscript drafts, correspondence with Alfred A. Knopf and the Knopf editorial staff across his thirty-year publishing relationship, correspondence with William Morrow for the late Grant of Kingdom and Conquest of Don Pedro novels, and his substantial mid-century literary correspondence are in the Bancroft collection. The Bancroft's Online Archive of California finding aid is the standard research starting point.

Archive confusion note. The University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research (CSWR) holds MSS 40, "Harvey Butler Fergusson Correspondence" — but this is the father Harvey Butler Fergusson (1848-1915), the New Mexico Congressman, not the novelist son. Researchers should be careful not to conflate the two collections. The CSWR also holds MSS 45 (the Erna Fergusson Papers) and the Huning-Fergusson Family Photograph Collection — Erna's literary archive and the family-history visual record are in Albuquerque; the novelist Harvey's literary archive is in Berkeley.

The standard modern biography is Robert Franklin Gish, Frontier's End: The Life and Literature of Harvey Fergusson (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1988). Gish is the principal modern scholar of the Fergusson siblings; his companion volume is Beautiful Swift Fox: Erna Fergusson and the Modern Southwest (Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 1996, Southwestern Studies in the Humanities series). The two Gish biographies are the standard secondary literature for both siblings.

Scholarship. Fergusson is treated regularly in the New Mexico Quarterly (NMQ) — UNM's literary-and-cultural journal across the mid-twentieth century — and in academic monographs on Southwestern American fiction. Modern Hispano-and-Chicano studies scholarship reads the Followers of the Sun trilogy critically as one of the foundational Anglo-perspective texts that both opened Hispano New Mexico as a serious literary subject and constructed the Anglo interpretive framework that later Chicano-and-Nuevomexicano writers (Rudolfo Anaya, Sabine Ulibarrí, John Nichols, Denise Chávez) would write against and beyond.

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Critical Reputation

Harvey Fergusson is consistently positioned in the critical literature as one of the foundational early-twentieth-century novelists of the Hispano-Anglo New Mexico encounter. The standard mid-century literary-historical pairing is Fergusson with Willa Cather (Death Comes for the Archbishop, 1927), Oliver La Farge (Laughing Boy, 1929 — Pulitzer Prize 1930, see /oliver-la-farge-laughing-boy-1929-pulitzer-collecting), and Paul Horgan (Great River, 1954 — Pulitzer 1955, see /paul-horgan-great-river-pulitzer-collecting) as the four Anglo-perspective foundational treatments of New Mexico's three-culture history.

Fergusson never won a Pulitzer or other major American literary prize, and his books did not match Cather's or La Farge's mid-century reading-list dominance. But the steady UNM Press, Bison Books, and academic-press reprints have kept the Followers of the Sun trilogy continuously in print across the late twentieth and into the twenty-first century, and Gish's 1988 biography has anchored the modern scholarly recovery of Fergusson as a serious twentieth-century American novelist. The trilogy is standard on New Mexico literature and Southwestern Studies reading lists at UNM, NMSU, NM Highlands, and the University of Arizona.

Three-Tier Collector Market

Tier 1 — mid three figures to upper four figures with signed/inscribed material. Blood of the Conquerors (Knopf 1921) first edition in original dust jacket is the apex Harvey Fergusson trophy — Fergusson's first novel, the foundational Followers of the Sun trilogy opener, and the most-difficult-to-find-with-jacket Knopf first in his bibliography. Wolf Song (Knopf 1927) first edition with original Knopf dust jacket — documented as "very uncommon" in jacket by specialist Western Americana dealers, with the 1929 Gary Cooper Paramount film association adding collector demand from the substantial pre-1935 Cooper film-collector community. In Those Days (Knopf 1929) first with original jacket. Rio Grande (Knopf 1933) first with original jacket (the most-collected Fergusson non-fiction title and the principal NM historical-survey collector target after Horgan's Great River). Signed inscribed copies of any of the Tier 1 titles command meaningful premium over unsigned; closed signature pool 1971.

Tier 2 — low to mid three figures. Hot Saturday (Knopf 1926) first with original dust jacket — the Cary Grant film association keeps this a desirable Tier 2 target. Capitol Hill (Knopf 1923) first. Women and Wives (Knopf 1924) first. Footloose McGarnigal (Knopf 1930) first. Modern Man (1936). The Life of Riley (1937). Home in the West (Duell, Sloan & Pearce 1945) — the autobiography, scarce in fine condition. People and Power (Morrow 1947). Grant of Kingdom (Morrow 1950) first with original jacket. The Conquest of Don Pedro (Morrow 1954) first. Robert Franklin Gish, Frontier's End (Nebraska 1988).

Tier 3 — under one hundred dollars. Knopf trade reprints of the Followers of the Sun trilogy individual novels; the Knopf Followers of the Sun omnibus volume that combined all three trilogy novels; UNM Press, Bison Books, and other academic-press paperback reprints of the trilogy across the late twentieth century; mass-market paperback reprints; academic monographs and journal-issue retrospectives on Fergusson and Southwestern American fiction; library-rebound copies of any of the Tier 1 or Tier 2 titles.

Identification Problems and Authentication Cautions

The Knopf reprint problem. Knopf kept the Followers of the Sun trilogy novels in print for decades through the mid-twentieth century, issuing multiple printings of Blood of the Conquerors, Wolf Song, and In Those Days. The cloth bindings of the later Knopf printings closely resemble the first-printing bindings. Authentication requires the copyright page (first-printing copies have only the original copyright date with no subsequent printing notation) and absence of "additional impressions" lines.

The dust jacket scarcity problem. The 1921 Blood of the Conquerors and the 1927 Wolf Song first-printing dust jackets are both genuinely scarce — they fall in the period when American trade publishers were transitioning from disposable wrappers to retained dust jackets, and survival rates for the original jackets are low. The 1929 In Those Days jacket is somewhat more available but still scarce. The 1933 Rio Grande jacket is more available given the slightly later publication year and the book's longer in-print history. Any claim of "first edition with original dust jacket" on the early trilogy novels should be verified with photographs and provenance documentation.

The film tie-in problem. Wolf Song and Hot Saturday have both been issued in film-tie-in printings — the 1929 Wolf Song film and the 1932 Hot Saturday film generated Paramount-promoted reprint editions in 1929 and 1932 respectively. These film-tie-in editions are commonly mis-listed as first editions; they are not the 1927 and 1926 Knopf firsts. The copyright page and absence of film credits on the title page are the authentication points.

The Bancroft / UNM CSWR confusion. Researchers and dealers occasionally cite UNM CSWR MSS 40 as the "Harvey Fergusson papers" — but MSS 40 is the father's Congressional correspondence, not the novelist's literary papers. The novelist's papers are at the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley.

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NMLP Intake Position

Harvey Fergusson books appear in NMLP donation pickups regularly across the Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos Anglo retiree donor base, often in family library accumulations alongside the books of his sister Erna Fergusson (the two Fergusson siblings' books appear together in many Albuquerque estate pickups, reflecting the multi-generational Fergusson family reading habit).

Donor surface: Albuquerque Anglo professional retirees with Old Town, Country Club, Huning Castle neighborhood, North Valley, and Ridgecrest family-library accumulation (the Fergusson family's Country Club neighborhood concentration produces substantial Fergusson-book donor activity); UNM English Department and American Studies faculty estates (Fergusson is on most NM-literature and Southwestern-Studies reading lists); UNM Press subscription-donation accumulations (UNM Press has kept the Followers of the Sun trilogy in print through multiple editions); Santa Fe and Taos Anglo retirees with Mabel Dodge Luhan / D.H. Lawrence circle-adjacent reading lists; California-relocator donors with Berkeley-period Fergusson collecting; Maxwell Land Grant region (Cimarron, Springer, Raton, Eagle Nest) historical-library deaccessions for Grant of Kingdom; Las Vegas NM railroad-era historical collectors for In Those Days; the substantial Cary Grant and Gary Cooper film-collector communities for the Hot Saturday and Wolf Song dual-collector market.

Tier 1 routes to specialist literary-first-edition dealers and auction houses (Heritage Auctions Books and Manuscripts, William Reese Company New Haven, Lorne Bair Rare Books in Winchester VA for Western Americana, PBA Galleries San Francisco, and local Albuquerque dealers including Treasure House Books in Old Town and Bookworks on Rio Grande Blvd). Tier 2 unsigned firsts and the broader bibliography through SellBooksABQ at 5445 Edith NE, Unit A in Albuquerque. Tier 3 trade-paperback Followers of the Sun trilogy reprints to APS Title I schools (the trilogy is standard on NM literature and Southwestern Studies reading lists), UNM classroom-set acquisitions, NM Historical Society institutional donations, Maxwell Land Grant region historical society donations, and the regional research-library partnership network. Your book donation supports New Mexico literacy programs. Free statewide pickup — schedule your pickup or text/call 702-496-4214.

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Eldred, J. (May 2026). Harvey Fergusson — Blood of the Conquerors (1921), Wolf Song (1927), the Followers of the Sun Trilogy & the Berkeley Years. New Mexico Literacy Project.

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