Pinon Country

American Folkways

by Haniel Long, Tony Hillerman (Foreword)

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, miner's 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.

337 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1941

About the author

Haniel Clark Long served as Head of the English Department at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University).