The Delight Makers: A Novel of Prehistoric Pueblo Indians

by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier

Book Overview

The Delight Makers (1890) is a novel by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier with an introduction by Charles Fletcher Lummis. Written after nearly a decade of research spent living among the Pueblo... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0156252643
• ISBN13: 9780156252645
• Release Date: September 1971
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

An American Treasure

I taught a high school senior elective called Literature of the American West and included The Delight Makers. It was the highlight, along with Owen Wister's original Western, The Virginian, of the class. Bandelier reimagines the lives of the cliff-dwellers, based on his first of a kind, primary, on-site research, and tells a story that is captivating, vivid and extraordinary, bringing us into the heart and mind, albeit envisioned by a white European male, of the native American culture. But, I for one, think the spirit in which he envisioned and wrote his tale is of the same spirit which guided and fostered and, eventually, destroyed the cliff-dwellers. If my not-above-average high school seniors delighted in this book -- you will, too. Once you get into the story, any awkwardness to Bandelier's language is washed away in the ongoing stream of an amazing narrative.