UNDER TURQUOISE SKIES Outstanding Features of the Story of America’s Southwest from the Days of the Ancient Cliff-Dwellers to Modern Times [SOLD]

UNDER TURQUOISE SKIES Outstanding Features of the Story of America’s Southwest from the Days of the Ancient Cliff-Dwellers to Modern Times By Will H. Robinson

Publisher:  The Macmillan Company, New York, MCMXXVIII

First edition, hardback, 1928, red cloth board covers, gilt titles, illustrated with photographs.

538 numbered pages; 32 unnumbered pages, 568 images, no dust jacket

The story of America's Southwest from the days of ancient cliff dwellers, the Pueblos, the inhabitants, the artifacts, the Conquistadors, the Indian tribes, their handiwork, dwellings, baskets, ceramics, their agriculture, the various Indian tribes, to the modern days of the first third of the 20th century.

CONTENTS

THE SOUTHWEST’S ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS

I.                 America's First Families

II.               Immigration

III.              Cave and Cliff Dwellers

IV.              Menace of the Nomads

V.               The Grand Period of the Pueblos

VI.              Number of Inhabitants

VII.            Artifacts

VIII.          Government

SPANISH CONQUEST AND COLONIZATION

IX            Conquest and Colonization

X             Missions in New Mexico

XI            Missions in Arizona

MODERN RED MEN

XII          Settling the Indian Question

XIII         Southwestern Tribes

XIV         Irrigation for Indian Fields

XV          Dances and Other Religious Ceremonies

XVI         Graphic Art

XVII        Baskets

XVIII       Ceramics

XIX         Blankets

XX           Music

XXI         Education

DESERTS, FOOTHILLS AND MOUNTAINS

XXII        When the Deserts Bloom

XXIII       Desert Plant Pioneers—Trees and Shrubs

XXIV       Cacti

XXV        Desert Annual Flowers

XXVI       Plant Life in Foothills and Mountains

BEASTS, BIRDS AND A FEW BUGS

XXVII      Game Animals and their Hunters

XXVIII    Birds and Fishes

XXIX       Poisonous Creatures

     MARVELS AND SPECTACLES

XXX        The Grand Canyon

XXXI       The Painted Deserts—Petrified Forests

XXXII      Natural Bridges—Caves—Rhyolite Park

XXXIII     El Morro, Crossroads of the Conquistadores

     BUILDERS OF THE SOUTHWEST

XXXIV     From Pack Trains to Pullmans

XXXV      Legacies of Spain

XXXVI     Mines and Miners

XXXVII   Man-Made Oases

XXXVIII  Health and Heat

XXXIX     Cattle, Sheep and Dude Ranches

XL           Keeping Alive the Ancient Traditions

XLI          How to See the Southwest