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Explorers in Eden: Pueblo Indians and the Promised Land. By Jerold S. Auerbach. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. 205 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8263-3945-X.)
In 1879 a young ethnologist named Frank Hamilton Cushing was offered the opportunity of a lifetime: the director of the Smithsonian Institution asked him to join the Col. James Stevenson expedition, which planned to conduct a study of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico. Cushing jumped at the chance and embarked on one of the most famous journeys of discovery and self-transformation in American history. At its heart, according to Jerold S. Auerbach, was an appreciation of the Southwest and the Pueblos as representing a new promised land, an Edenic alternative to the gritty and corrupt urban-industrial America. . . .
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