A Walk Around the Horizon: Discovering New Mexico's Mountains of the Four Directions

by Tom Harmer

Book Overview

North of Santa Fe, the New Mexico landscape is framed by four high mountains. Although they are sacred to the Tewa Pueblo Indians, the four peaks are in different bureaucratic and cultural zones, which means that each peak attracts visitors but few non-Indian travelers visit more than one of the mountains. Tom Harmer's chronicle of climbing all four of these mountains in one summer--Sandia to the south, Chicoma to the west, Canjilon to the north,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826353649
• ISBN13: 9780826353641
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"