New York: Century, (1924.). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Classic work on New Mexico by this Illinois-born author, who migrated to California where she lived first in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and later in the Carmel area (where the writers Jack London and George Sterling also lived and wrote,) and who finally moved to Santa Fe as a result of her work on this book. A brief typed letter dated in the year of publication and SIGNED by Mary Austin has been tipped onto the front endpaper (while the note is polite, their is an underlying sense of 'why are you asking me' Your librarian will be able to help.) A lovely book illustrated with full page and smaller en texte drawings and chapter headpieces by John Edwin Jackson. Quotations, glossary. ix, 459 pp.