

The Delight Makers (1890) is a novel by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier with an introduction by Charles Fletcher Lummis. Written after nearly a decade of research spent living among the Pueblo tribes of New Mexico, The Delight Makers attempts to recreate the...

The author, an archaeologist who spent eight years among the Pueblo tribes of New Mexico, provides in fictional form an invaluable reconstruction of prehistoric Indian culture of the Southwest. Introduction by Stefan Jovanovich.



The Delight Makers







The Delight Makers (1890) is a novel by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier with an introduction by Charles Fletcher Lummis. Written after nearly a decade of research spent living among the Pueblo tribes of New Mexico, The Delight Makers attempts to recreate the...

Adolph Bandelier was a pioneer explorer and anthropologist of the American Southwest. He is immortalizd through the naming of one of the nation's lesser-known but most glorious treasures, Bandelier National Monument near Santa F , New Mexico. It features spectacular pre-European...

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The Delight Makers is a historical novel written by Adolph F. Bandelier. The novel is set in pre-Columbian America and tells the story of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. The book explores the culture, customs, and beliefs of these indigenous people through the eyes of a Spanish...


"The mountain ranges skirting the Rio Grande del Norte on the west, nearly opposite the town of Santa F , in the Territory of New Mexico, are to-day but little known. The interior of the chain, the Sierra de los Valles, is as yet imperfectly explored. Still, these bald-crested...