The object of our quest was a legend passed on in the pages of Ann Axtell Morris’s charming 1933 memoir, Digging in the Southwest. The wife of Earl Morris, one of the greatest hands-on archaeologists who ever toiled in the Southwest, Ann recounted the fable of “The Lost City of the Lukachukais,” a massive, lordly Anasazi ruin discovered by accident by a pair of Franciscan missionaries in 1909 but never conclusively identified thereafter.
