Adolphe Francis Alphonse Bandelier (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Schaefer, Jack  (1907-1991)

Publisher: The Press of the Territorian

Pub Date: 1966

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good.  Stapled binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Some pen markings on lower corner title page.  Some foxing at spine edge.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes: Pamphlet.  “The Press of the Territorian Presents Number 7 of a Series of Western Americana”  A brief, chatty biography of Adolphe Bandelier, for whom Bandelier National Monument is named, by the author of  Shane and Monte Walsh.   Bandelier, born in Switzerland in 1840, emigrated to the United States with his family as a child, went into the family businesses as an adult, hated the work.  He became an “amateur” archaeologist, as well as a professional explorer.  In his own writings, tallying the ruins he had discovered, surveyed and measured  “Total of 84 in N. Mexico and 71 in Arizona, or 155.  To this should be added in Mexico 11, or 166 Ruins in 3 years.  I believe that this is a fair work.  But do not let me become proud, I may fall at any moment.” (page 16).   He died in Spain in 1914.  Schaefer writes a brief autobiography of himself on the final two pages of the pamphlet.