The book of prose, poems, and illustrations that “bested Thoreau” (Don Bullis, New Mexico Centennial Author). For almost four years in the early 1990s, writer, artist, and backcountry hiker Betsy James rented part of an old adobe near the center of a New Mexican village.

She had worked for years with cultures very like those that had shaped Placitas—in Mexico, Albuquerque, Zuni Pueblo. She gave this place her best mortal attention, and recorded what she could. This book is the result. This paperback edition is run on 50# creme paper with a matte laminate finish, printed and bound in the United States.

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