OUR SOUTHWEST by Erna Fergusson [SOLD]

OUR SOUTHWEST by Erna Fergusson

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopp, New York 1940

First edition, hardback, 1940.  Profusely illustrated with photographs and maps

Condition: very good condition with paper tear in inner front and inner back.

FROM THE TEXT

The Southwest is not like other sections of the United States, exactly bounded.  Geographically, Southwest should be where South and West have crossed, but in the sense of breeding to produce offspring, it is a mestizo partaking of the characteristics of both parents, South and West, and like a child, baffling to both.  One, trying to define the Southwest, said: “You know, when you get that first clear breath of high, dry air.  That’s the Southwest.”  There is no argument about the twin states of New Mexico and Arizona.  They are Southwest.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I.     What is the Southwest?

II.    Fort Worth is Where Cattle Begin

III.   San Antonio is Spain in Texas

IV.    The Border and Border People

V.     El Paso, Crossroads of the Southwest

VI.    Tucson: Deserts and Dudes

VII.   Broken Pots and Prehistoric People

VIII.  Uncle Sam’s Southwest

IX.    Phoenix and the Desert Reclaimed

X.     Prescott and Two Women

XI.    Fred Harvey, Civilizer

XII.   Gallup and the Navajos

XIII.  Albuquerque, “Heart of the Well Country”

XIV.   Villages of the Saints

XV.    Santa Fe is Always Santa Fe

XVI.   The People of the Pueblos

XVII.  Taos and the Artists

XVIII. The High Plains are the Forty-ninth State

XIX.   Dances, Fiestas, Fairs, and Rodeos

XX.    The Interpreters