Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition

by Chris Wilson

Book Overview

A wave of publicity during the 1980s projected Santa Fe to the world as an exotic tourist destination--America's own Tahiti in the desert. The Myth of Santa Fe goes behind the romantic adobe facades and mass marketing stereotypes to tell the fascinating but little known story of how the city's alluring image was quite consciously created early in this century, primarily by Anglo-American newcomers.

By investigating the city's trademark...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826317464
• ISBN13: 9780826317469
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"