Let's Explore Indian Villages Past and Present is Bertha P. Dutton's classic tour guide to the Pueblo country around Santa Fe. Organized as a series of driving explorations, it leads readers from the Battle of Glorieta Pass and Pecos to the living pueblos of Tesuque, Nambe, Pojoaque, Picuris, and Taos, then westward into the Jemez Mountains, Coronado State Monument, Zia, and Bandelier, weaving archaeology, history, and contemporary Pueblo life into one accessible itinerary.
Dutton was a pioneering anthropologist and longtime figure at the Museum of New Mexico and the Laboratory of Anthropology, and her fieldwork shapes this slim guide. This is the first reprint, August 1972, published by the Museum of New Mexico Press in Santa Fe, with its striking red-and-teal Pueblo-motif cover.
1972 reprint (first edition 1962)
The copyright page reads 'First edition: July 1962 ... 1st reprint, August 1972'; this is the 1972 reprint, not the 1962 first. This is a Museum of New Mexico Press book; see how Museum of New Mexico Press states its first printings.
| Author | Bertha P. Dutton |
| Publisher | Museum of New Mexico Press |
| Year | 1972 |
| Edition | 1972 reprint (first edition 1962) |
| Condition | Stapled softcover, edge wear. |
| Topic | Pueblo villages travel guide |
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