Journal of the Southwest articles from December 1998

Journal of the Southwest archives from December 1998

Publishing the Southwest.
December 22, 1998... We would like to correct an error that we regrettably made in the last issue (Autumn 1998) of JSW. The final sentence of the third paragraph on page 317 of "Remembering A.E. Douglass," by Bryant Bannister, should read: "We used what were the...

Santisima Muerte: On the Origin and Development of a Mexican Occult Image.
December 22, 1998... The stripper at the Reyes y Reynas Dancing Bar, on Republica de Cuba in the center of Mexico City, approached and asked if I spoke Spanish. Yes, I do. Would I buy her a drink? Of course. As she ordered a glass of amaretto and leaned wearily on...

"A Fortune Awaits Enterprise Here": The Best Mining Expedition to the Grand Canyon in 1891.
December 22, 1998... Robert Brewster Stanton, the engineer who in 1889 and 1890 conducted a railroad survey down the Colorado River and Grand Canyon in later years became the first Colorado River historian. In an unpublished manuscript on the history of Colorado...

"For the Work We Have Done": Frank Pinkley and the Transformation of Montezuma Castle National Monument.
December 22, 1998... February 14, 1940 was to be a red-letter day for Frank Pinkley. For years he had dreamed of gathering together the custodians of the various national monuments scattered throughout the Southwest so they could share their experiences from the...

Juan de Onate in Quivira.
December 22, 1998... In his delightful Kiva, Cross, and Crown John Kessell avers (1979: viii) with evident diffidence that, although he "rechecked and revised others' translations" of the documents that formed the basis of his history of Pecos Pueblo, it was not...