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Revolt: An Archaeological History of Pueblo Resistance and Revitalization in 17th-Century New Mexico with growing admiration and even envy, as I recognized how much deeper he had probed into the mystery of New Mexico between 1680 and 1692 than I had been able to do in my own book, which, after all, was aimed at a popular rather than a scholarly audience. Liebmann’s masterly study now stands as the definitive history of the Pueblo Revolt.
steep-walled, twisting canyon whose stream forms a northwestern tributary of the Rio Grande a few miles above Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. It’s a beautiful place, sacred to the Chihenne Apache under Mangas Coloradas and Victorio, who regarded Ojo Caliente, the small hot spring at the upper mouth of the canyon, as the center of their homeland.
Apache ruin
report that had most fired my imagination about Kaiparowits was not Zane Grey’s cowboy romance but a memoir published in 1933, called Beyond the Rainbow. Its author was Clyde Kluckhohn, who would go on to become a Harvard professor and the leading Navajo ethnographer of his day.
Mile, in fact, contains what is regarded by experts as “the largest concentration of rock art in North America.” Both during and after my pilgrimages to Range Creek, I drove the long dirt road (now paved) that ranges along the creek bed in Nine Mile, armed with Jerry and Donna Spangler’s superb guidebook, Horned Snakes and Axle Grease.
James M. Aton’s handsome and erudite The River Knows Everything: Desolation and the Green proved an invaluable guidebook to the canyon.
