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Absolutely incredible collection of so many pieces of art and history. Loads of great stuff from the WPA.

The Rapp "style" seems to be almost entirely derivative of a whole mish-mash of styles and pretty awful, actually, and I really don't see how there's any argument in here that he created what the book terms the Santa Fe style. According to Santa Fe themselves, Pueblo Revival style was largely created by a committee that commissioned many architects, of which Rapp was merely one (and really... not one of the better ones, based on surviving examples).

This wasn't quite what I expected. I was expecting a book about gardening in the northen New Mexico region, informed by the native traditions such as acequias and mixed planting square frame gardens.

What it actually contains is a series of anthropologists, paleoethnobiologists, botanists, and the like arguing about the movements and culture of the Tewas. This would be interesting in and of itself if any point had been made to present the arguments that they are arguing against.

A nice story from the optimistic era of the internet

Not a fan of the ebook formatting, just a huge pdf with a tiny font. Otherwise a nice book.