The Last Memories of a Tenderfoot - Paperback

by Richard Baxter Townshend (Author)

1926. With illustrations. Townshend was an Englishman who ranched in southern New Mexico for a few years. This is the third of a series of memoirs he wrote. This volume includes quite a lot on the Indians including a description of the Snake Dance he observed in 1903. Contents: The General's Mules; A Pioneer of the Old Sort; The Red Man's Way; My Solomon Ox; Panic Terror; Frenchy's Score; Rocky Ford Melons; On a Mesa Top; Going South; Letters from Jemez Hot Springs; A Scramble Among the Mesas; In the Pueblo Once More; Letters from the Grand Canon; The Hopi Snake-Dancers of Arizona; The Dance at Walpi; The Dance at Mashongnovi; and A Race for Life.