EDGE OF TAOS DESERT [SOLD]

EDGE OF TAOS DESERT An Escape to Reality 

by Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962)

University of New Mexico Press

Soft Cover, 1987 reprint of original Volume 4 of Intimate Memories, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1937. 338 pages

“In 1917 Mabel Sterne, patron of the arts and spokeswoman for the New York avant-garde, came to the Southwest seeking a new life.  This autobiographical account of her first few months in New Mexico is a remarkable description of an Easterner’s journey to the American West.  It is also a great story of personal and philosophical transformation.  The geography of New Mexico and the culture of the Pueblo Indians opened a new world for Mabel.  She settled in Taos immediately and lived there the rest of her life.  Much of this book describes her growing fascination with Antonio Luhan of Taos Pueblo, whom she subsequently married. Her descriptions of the appeal of primitive New Mexico to a world-weary New Yorker are still fresh and moving.