Indians of the Enchanted Desert [SOLD]

Indians of the Enchanted Desert

First edition, first printing, September, 1925. 8vo. Illustrated with 32 black and white halftone photographs by H.R. Robinson, W.C. Wilson, Ernie Kopte, A.H. Womack and others; folding map at end, gilt-stamped spine. Top edge gilt. 

Original navy blue pictorial cloth stamped in orange gray and black.  365 pages.

Condition: Very good with minor tear to spine and crease in last two blank pages.   No signatures or bookplates.

Table of Contents

I Nolens Volens

II Across the Plains

III Into “Indian Country”

IV Old Trails and Desert Fare

V Desert Life and Literature

VI A Northern Wonderland

VII The first Ball of the Season

VIII Old Oraibi

IX The Making and Breaking of Chiefs

X The Provinces of the “Mohoce or Mohoqui”

XI The Law of the Realm

XII Comments and Complaints

XIII A Desert Vendée

XIV Soldiers, Indians, and Schools

XV An Echo of the Dawn-Men

XVI Fiddles and Drums

XVII Service Tradition

XVIII Buttons and Bonds

XIX Our Friends, the Tourists

XX The Great Snake-Ceremony

XXI Desert Belascos

XXII On the Heels of Adventure

XXIII The Red Bootleggers

XXIV Held for Ransom

XXV Wanted at Court

XXVI Hopi Annals

XXVII L’Envoi

Leo Crane was the Indian Agent at Keams Canyon for the Hopi and Navajo Tribes, starting in 1911. He then served as the agent for the Pueblo Tribes of New Mexico, and later was transferred to the Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota. He authored two books on the southwest:

Indians of the Enchanted Desert
Desert Drums: The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, 1540-1928