Some Strange Corners Of Our Country The wonderland of the SouthWest
by Charles F. Lummis
- New York Century Co. 1903
- 270 p
The grandest gorge in the world -- A forest of agate -- The American Sahara -- The rattlesnake dance -- Where they beg the bear's pardon -- The witches' corner -- The magicians -- The self-crucifiers -- Homes that were forts -- Montezuma's well -- Montezuma's castle -- The greatest natural bridge on earth -- The stone autograph-album -- The rivers of stone -- The Navajo basket -- The blind hunters -- Finishing an Indian boy -- The praying smoke -- The dance of the sacred bark -- Doctoring the years -- An odd people at home -- A saint in court.
Lummis's prose portraits of the Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, Montezuma Castle, and other sites reflect the author's knowledge of Southwest anthropology and history.