Gregory McNamee's The Ancient Southwest is a traveling companion to the deep human past of the Four Corners country, guiding readers through some fifty national and state parks, monuments, and archaeological sites across Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. McNamee, a prolific Tucson-based writer on the desert West, leads readers back to the eras when the earliest peoples built the pueblos, kivas, and cliff dwellings whose stone still stands at Mesa Verde, Chaco Culture, Canyon de Chelly, and Bandelier.
What lifts the book above a standard guide is Larry Lindahl's photography. More than a hundred images catch ruins and rock art in raking desert light, turning a reference work into something closer to a meditation on place. Published by Tucson's Rio Nuevo Publishers, a press devoted to Southwestern subjects, this copy carries an Indian Pueblo Store sticker, a small marker of its life in a Native-run shop in Albuquerque, exactly the kind of provenance worth recording for a regional guidebook.
Eighth printing (2014)
The number line on the copyright page reads down to 8 — an eighth printing of the 2014 title. This is a Rio Nuevo Publishers book; see how Rio Nuevo Publishers states its first printings.
| Author | Gregory McNamee; photographs by Larry Lindahl |
| Publisher | Rio Nuevo Publishers |
| Year | 2014 |
| ISBN | 978-1-933855-88-2 |
| Edition | Eighth printing (2014) |
| Condition | Softcover. |
| Topic | Southwest archaeology guidebook |
Photographs © New Mexico Literacy Project, licensed CC BY 4.0 — reuse with attribution. This is an identification and provenance record of a real donation; no appraisal or valuation is offered.
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