The Land of Poco Tiempo

“Sun, silence and adobe—that is New Mexico in three words.” The opening sentence to a collection of extraordinary essays on the history of the territory that has become the U.S. state of New Mexico, by a pioneering journalist/archæologist/ethnographer who spent much of his adult life living among pueblo people of the region. This book on “The Land of Pretty Soon” is a much under-appreciated classic of U.S. historical writing.