What about the tourists? In a 1912 speech the archaeologist/booster Sylvanus Morley had proclaimed: None of us may live to see the day, but sometime in the future there will surely come a generation of Santa Feans who will not be eternally sleeping at the switch; but who will realize the possibilities of a Glorified Adobe City, and reap the golden harvest therefrom. Then, and not until then, will Santa Fe enter upon the epoch of increased and ever increasing prosperity, which is hers by right of every association, historic, geographic, and climatic.17 In 1992, newspapers reported, “Santa Fe,
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