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This book--like its companion volume, California Classics--was written by Lawrence Clark Powell, one-time librarian at UCLA (and after whom the main library there is now named). He traveled widely in the Southwest, meeting (and forming personal opinions on) nearly all the authors covered in this book who were still alive at the time, and researching deeply into those who were not.
Many of the books below--and nearly a dozen by Powell himself--are in my library, whether in venerable hardcover or disreputable paperback. All are treasures.
The books are listed in table-of-contents order.
- Josiah Gregg: Commerce of the Prairies
- Lewis H. Garrard: Wah-To-Yah and the Taos Trail
- Susan Shelby Magoffin: Down the Santa Fe Trail
- Charles F. Lummis: The Land of Poco Tiempo
- Harvey Fergusson: Wolf Song
- Mabel Dodge Luhan: Edge of Taos Desert, Winter In Taos
- D.H. Lawrence: The Plumed Serpent
- Mary Austin: The Land of Journeys' Ending
- Haniel Long: Interlinear to Cabeza De Vaca
- Willa Cather: Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Erna Fergusson: Dancing Gods
- Ross Calvin: Sky Determines
- Eugene Manlove Rhodes: Pasó Por Aqui
- Ross Santee: Lost Pony Tracks
- Stewart Edward White: Arizona Nights
- Zane Grey: Riders of the Purple Sage
- Oliver La Farge: Laughing Boy
- Will Levington Comfort: Apache
- Kino's Memoir; Garcés Diary
- J. Ross Browne: Adventures in the Apache Country
- Martha Summerhayes: Vanished Arizona
- John Wesley Powell: The Exploration of the Colorado River
- Theodore Roosevelt: Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail
- John C. Van Dyke: The Desert
- Joseph Wood Krutch: The Desert Year
- J. Frank Dobie: Coronado's Children
Note: Dr. Powell lamented in the introduction to his book, "Living writers have been excluded, painful though it has been not to write about Paul Horgan and Frank Waters." These omissions have been rectified, as Horgan and Waters are long gone--both, coincidentally, in 1995. (Dr. Powell's book was copyrighted in 1974.)
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