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The Delight Makers

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
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We were wet and half-fed, and cold by night, even in the ancient tiny caves.

But the unforgettable glory of it all! To-day thousands of people annually visit the Tyuonyi at ease, and camp for weeks in comfort.

The School of American Archaeology has a summer session there; and its excavations verify Bandelier's surmises.

Normal students and budding archaeologists sleep in the very caves (identified) of the Eagle People, the Turquoise, Snake and other clans.

And in that enchanted valley we remember not only the Ancients, but the man who gave all this to the world.
During the six years I was Librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library, far later, no other out-of-print book on the Southwest was so eagerly sought as "The Delight Makers." We had great trouble in getting our own copy, which slept in the safe.


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