SKY DETERMINES an Interpretation of the Southwest [SOLD]

SKY DETERMINES an Interpretation of the Southwest

By Ross Calvin

Illustrated by Peter Hurd

First edition published by Macmillan, New York (1934)

This revised and enlarged edition published by The University of New Mexico Press in 1965

Hard cover with dust jacket, 391 pages

Contents

Foreword

I.Theme Stated

II. Sky

III. Desert

IV. Mountains

V. Forest

VI. Forgotten Peoples

VII. Conquistadores

VIII. Puebleños

IX. Mexicanos

X. Apaches

XI. Ranchmen

XII. Wells and Trails

XIII. To Nature, Formidable Goddess

XIV. Man Determines

XV. A Gringo Conquistador

XVI. The Newcomers Who Moved In

XVII. Gila: The Ruin of a River

XVIII. The Region’s Insatiable Thirst

Bibliography

Index

Publisher’s Request

From the Flyleaf

“Against a wildly magnificent background, the author sets a pageant of New Mexico’s storied past, reconstructing from remains the culture of the cliff-dwelling aborigines, depicting the mode of life of the Pueblo people who followed them . . . telling of the invasion of the Conquistadores, who counted it a worthless land when they failed to find precious metal, and tracing history through two and a half centuries of Spanish and Mexican rule to the coming of the Americans and the life of the present day,” London Times