NMLP P-035419 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

The Delight Makers

Adolph F. Bandelier · Dodd, Mead and Company (New York) · 1890

This is Bandelier's only novel -- a fictionalized ethnographic reconstruction of prehistoric Pueblo life at Rito de los Frijoles (in what is now Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico) that grew directly out of his archaeological fieldwork for the Archaeological Institute of America

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035419 for "The Delight Makers" by Adolph F. Bandelier (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035419, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).