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Kiva (Paperback, New)
Ronald K Wetherington
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When an archaeology student excavates the final layer of debris
filling an ancient pueblo room, she dramatically and unexpectedly
exposes a sacred kiva lying below. The sinister events that follow,
including a murder, hurl the young Graciella into a vortex of
dangers from both past and present. With the help of an Apache
detective investigating the murder, she attempts to escape from
haunting forces that seek to destroy her, while treading a
serpentine path that crosses the line between myth and reality.
This tale of a prehistoric pueblo and its living descendents
confronts one of humankind's most ancient questions: can the past
reach into the present and can the present influence what happened
long ago? RONALD K. WETHERINGTON is professor of anthropology at
Southern Methodist University, in Dallas, Texas. He has conducted
archaeological investigations in Egypt, Mexico, Guatemala, and New
Mexico. His excavations in the Taos area form the basis for this
novel. He is former director of the Fort Burgwin Research Center
near Taos. He has extensive publications in both physical
anthropology and archaeology, including "Ceran St. Vrain: American
Frontier Entrepreneur" from Sunstone Press.
Battles and massacres are intimate affairs for combatants and
others involved, their physical and emotional violence often
stemming from fervor and fear. Although mass killing characterizes
both battles and massacres, the two are profoundly different.
Battles take place between armed forces; massacres are one-sided
events in which the dead are mostly innocent victims. Yet the fog
of war shrouds both massacres and battles in a functional amnesia.
Participants remember what exactly happened during such a violent
encounter only imperfectly, and later clarity cannot always rectify
accounts thus rendered. Even naming the events as battles or
massacres already imposes an interpretive framework upon them.
This unique study centers on four critical engagements between
Anglo-Americans and American Indians on the southwestern frontier:
the Battle of Cieneguilla (1854), the Battle of Adobe Walls (1864),
the Sand Creek Massacre (1864), and the Mountain Meadows Massacre
(1857). Editors Ronald K. Wetherington and Frances Levine juxtapose
historical and archaeological perspectives on each event to
untangle the ambiguity and controversy that surround both
historical and more contemporary accounts of each of these violent
outbreaks. Both disciplines, the contributors make clear, yield
surprisingly similar narratives and interpretive agreement; and the
lessons learned from these nineteenth-century killing fields about
wartime reporting and command failures remain relevant today.
"Contributions by" T. Lindsay Baker, J. Brett Cruse, Will
Gorenfeld, Shannon A. Novak, Lars Rodseth, Douglas D. Scott, and
Joe Watkins
First a trapper and trader, then a merchant, and finally an
emerging capitalist in the flour industry of New Mexico and
Colorado, Ceran St. Vrain was an iconic image of the industrious
and self-reliant western pioneer of the 19th century. He was also a
military hero, aiding the U.S. dragoons as an officer in the New
Mexico Volunteer army in their fight against marauding plains
Indians alongside Kit Carson. An intelligent and affable soul, he
helped lead the southwest from a barter economy, poor in cash and
lacking political infrastructure, into a post-military commercial
society on the road to statehood. His name has long been associated
with a small handful of astute and skilled leaders in the
transformation of the southwest: Carson, the Bent brothers,
Charlies Beaubien, Lucien Maxwell, Colonels Sterling Price and E.V.
Sumner, and yet until now his story has been largely hidden in
footnotes and brief accounts of particular exploits. This story of
St. Vrain was stimulated by the author's earlier excavation of his
first flour mill in Taos, and the need to make that excavation
record public. Hence, this volume is in two parts: Part I is a
biographical account of St. Vrain's life from his entry into New
Mexico in the 1820s until his death in 1870. Part II is a detailed
description of the mill excavations and interpretations. RONALD K.
WETHERINGTON is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the
Center for Teaching Excellence at Southern Methodist University,
Dallas, Texas. From 1964 until 2001 he spent summers at SMU's Fort
Burgwin Research Center in Taos, New Mexico, variously directing
archaeological operations and developing its academic program. He
served two years as the Center's Associate Director and another two
as its Director.
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