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The Delight Makers

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
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These two friends were the first students to explore the Tyuonyi and its neighborhood.

In rain and shine, afoot, without blankets or overcoats, with no more provision than a little _atole_ (popcorn meal) and sweet chocolate, they climbed the cliffs, threaded the canons, slept in caves or under trees, measured, mapped and photographed the ruins and landscapes with a 40-pound camera, and laid the basis-notes for part of Bandelier's monumental "Final Report" to the Archaeological Institute of America.
A few later photographs from the same hand show part of the excavation done in the Tyuonyi by the School of American Archaeology--through whose loving and grateful efforts this canon has been set apart as a National Monument bearing the name of its discoverer and chronicler, ADOLF F.BANDELIER.
Thanks are due also to Hon.

Frederick C.Hicks, M.C., for six very interesting photographs of the Zunis and their country.
* * * * * IN MEMORY One day of August, 1888, in the teeth of a particular New Mexico sand-storm that whipped pebbles the size of a bean straight to your face, a ruddy, bronzed, middle-aged man, dusty but unweary with his sixty-mile tramp from Zuni, walked into my solitary camp at Los Alamitos.

Within the afternoon I knew that here was the most extraordinary mind I had met.

There and then began the uncommon friendship which lasted till his death, a quarter of a century later; and a love and admiration which will be of my dearest memories so long as I shall live.


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