The Southwest in the American Imagination: The Writings of Sylvester Baxter, 1881-1889

by David R. Wilcox and Sylvester Baxter

Book Overview

In the fall of 1886, Boston philanthropist Mary Tileston Hemenway sponsored an archaeological expedition to the American Southwest. Directed by anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing, the Hemenway Expedition sought to trace the ancestors of the Zu is with an eye toward establishing a museum for the study of American Indians. In the third year of fieldwork, Hemenway's overseeing board fired Cushing based on doubts concerning his physical health...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816516189
• ISBN13: 9780816516186
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"