Blanche Chloe Grant (1874-1948) was a Boston-trained painter and writer who settled in Taos, edited the local newspaper, and produced a series of pioneering books on the town's history. "The Taos Indians," first published in 1925, was among the earliest accessible accounts of Taos Pueblo, drawing on oral tradition, local interviews, and Grant's own deep affection for the community, illustrated with portraits including Catharine Critcher's painting "Juanita."
This is the 1976 Rio Grande Press edition from Glorieta, New Mexico, part of publisher Robert McCoy's well-regarded "Rio Grande Classics" series that rescued out-of-print Southwestern titles. The printing history notes that the 1925 first edition reproduced here was loaned by Homer Hastings of Santa Fe, and the volume adds a new introduction and index. Bound in handsome green cloth with a magenta and copper Pueblo-pottery design, this reprint keeps an early, sympathetic record of Taos Pueblo in circulation.
1976 Rio Grande reprint of the 1925 first
Marked 'A Rio Grande Classic / First Published in 1925 / First Printing 1976.' The first printing of the 1976 reprint, not the 1925 original.
| Author | Blanche C. Grant |
| Publisher | The Rio Grande Press |
| Year | 1976 |
| ISBN | 0-87380-112-1 |
| Edition | 1976 Rio Grande reprint of the 1925 first |
| Condition | Hardcover, decorated cloth boards, sound. |
| Topic | Taos Pueblo history |
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