| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.3

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Book Review

Explorers in Eden: Pueblo Indians and the Promised Land. By Jerold S. Auerbach. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. 205 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $34.95.)

Jerold Auerbach's central argument in Explorers in Eden is that between the 1880s and 1930s "a palpable yearning for the lost innocence of American life transformed Pueblo Indians into the last best hope for American redemption"—at least in the eyes of a long series of visiting anthropologists, photographers, and artists (pp. 169–70). The author's personal southwestern epiphany occurred in Santa Fe while pondering Edward S. Curtis's 1926 photograph, "Taos Water Girls." His sudden insight—that in the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century the Pueblo Southwest functioned as America's Orient or Palestine—impelled him to a decade-long search and elaboration of the theme.

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