Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog - Scripting the Santa Fe Legend 1920-1955 Books and social reformer

and social reformer

and across the high mesas of the Hopi

Verzuh’s new book Woven Identities: Basketry Art of Western North America (Museum of New Mexico Press)

In the 1850's

In the summer of 1846

Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog - Scripting the Santa Fe Legend 1920-1955 Books and social reformerAnglos have been coming to Santa Fe for centuries, and early in the last century the city's beauty and exotic cultural mix became particularly attractive to artistic immigrants looking for freedom from the greed and competitiveness of mainstream American culture. By the late twentieth century, many New Mexicans felt, Santa Fe's unique charm was nearly overwhelmed by the evils that people had moved there to escape. The interviews collected in this book