The land of poco tiempo
By: Charles F. Lummis
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780826300706
Copyright date: 1952
Subjects: Pueblo Indians; Flagellants; Apache Indians; Spanish Folk songs; Folk songs; Spanish Americans; Music; Quivira (Legendary place); Hermanos Penitentes
Description: The story of New Mexico as Lummis found it when he moved to the territory in 1888 to recover his health. As Lummis translates the Spanish title, "poco tiempo" means "pretty soon" the phrase expresses the lack of haste in the lives of the area's inhabitants.
Table of contents: title: The land of poco tiempo; title: "Lo" who is not poor; title: The city in the sky; title: The Penitent brothers; title: The chase of the chongo; title: The wanderings of Cochiti; title: The Apache warrior; title: On the trail of the renegades; title: New Mexican folk-songs; title: A day of the saints; title: The cities that were forgotten.