Mesa Verde Occasional Papers: A Love Affair that Almost Wasn’t: Durango and Mesa Verde National Park, published with Pioneering Archaeology in Mesa Verde: the Nusbaum Years

Description

Author: Smith, Duane A. (1937-2024) and Smith, Jack E.

Publisher: Mesa Verde Museum Association

Pub Date: 1981

Binding: Paperback

Condition:  Fair to Good.  Stapled binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.  Upper front cover corner has an approx. 1/16″ bend.  If you blink you’ll miss it.  Inscribed by the second Smith (Jack) on inside back cover.  Corner and edge wear.  Horizontal format 11″ x 8½”.

Notes: Pamphlet.  Volume No. 1 (Numbers 1,2)/October 1981.  Two histories of Mesa Verde and southwestern Colorado–“A Love Affair…” by Duane A. Smith, and “The Nusbaum Years” by Jack E. Smith.  Brief histories of Durango and its relationship with Mesa Verde, and a history of Nusbaum’s work in Mesa Verde.  Gift inscription on inside rear cover is from Jack Smith to Joe Ben Wheat.