THE SOUTHWESTERN JOURNALS OF ADOLPH F. BANDELIER (4 volumes) [SOLD]

THE SOUTHWESTERN JOURNALS OF ADOLPH F. BANDELIER (4 volumes)

Edited & Annotated by Charles H. Lange, Carroll L. Riley and Elizabeth M. Lange

Published in 4 volumes:

Volume I covers the years 1880-1882 published in 1966

Volume 2 covers the years 1883-1884 published in 1970

Volume 3 covers the years 1885-1888 published in 1975

Volume 4 covers the years 1889-1892 published in 1984

Publisher: The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque

All are hardback, first edition with slipcovers.

All four volumes profusely illustrated with drawings from Bandelier’s journal

Volume 1, 462 pages

Volume 2, 528 pages

Volume 3, 702 pages

Volume 4, 785 pages

In the years covered by these four volumes, Adolph F. Bandelier traveled extensively in New Mexico, Arizona and in Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico.  The years covered by volume 4 were spent mostly in Santa Fe. 

Bandelier’s journals reveal the wide range of his moods as he noted his shifting relationships with family members, colleagues, and others.  His sometimes sketchy entries, never intended for publication, served as an effective base for his future books and articles.

The editors have provided an overview of his life and career, including significant data from previously unused portions of his correspondence and newly available source materials; again, there is thorough annotation of the journal entries.  The Southwestern journals end with his final departure from Santa Fe and the beginning of a new period of his life and career in South America. 

Adolph Bandelier was important in early Southwestern anthropology and history, and today he is recognized as a forerunner of present day ethnohistory.  For the general reader, the journals offer a unique picture of Southwestern life of the late nineteenth century, and the scholar will find primary materials available nowhere else.

Condition: all 4 volumes are in very good condition.  Some wear to dust jackets.