Pinon Country

Pinon Country by Long, Haniel. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780803279193.

Piñon Country. The piñon country of New Mexico and Arizona is here celebrated by Haniel Long, who came to it in 1929. It covers a wealth of topics; the Spanish explorers Coronado and Cabeza de Vaca, Kit Carson, Billy the Kid, the Pueblo Indians, the Mormons, marijuana, the peyote religion, miners strikes, the Grand Canyon, and Carlsbad Caverns. The book originally appeared in the American Folkways Series edited by Erskine Caldwell. This Bison Book edition adds a new foreword by Tony Hillerman.