Caballeros

by Ruth Laughlin

Overview

First published in 1931, this is the complete history of Santa Fe, New Mexico written by Santa Fe native, Ruth Laughlin. Drawing on her extensive research and thorough personal understanding, the author covers all aspects of Spanish-American traditions, customs, and culture. She captures the elusive quality which makes the atmosphere of the city so appealing and writes with fluent ease of the history of the Southwest from the days of the Conquistadores. She covers every aspect of the life of the region including the political situation of the time with its Japanese Detention Camp, its art, its crafts, its architecture, and of the land and its climate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787205659
Publisher:	Borodino Books
Publication date:	06/28/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	263
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

RUTH LAUGHLIN (May 14, 1889 - July 30, 1962) was a Southwest novelist and a founding member of the Old Santa Fe Association.

Born in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1889 to Napoleon B Laughlin (1844-1924) and Katie Kimbrough Laughlin (1858-1944), she was educated at Colorado College and the Columbia School of Journalism. Following graduation, she became a writer for the Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times and various popular magazines.

Her interest and research into the history of the American Southwest led to her two best-known books: Caballeros (1931), which tells of the history, culture, and architecture of Santa Fe; and The Wind Leaves No Shadow (1948) about Santa Fe gambler La Tules. Both books are considered to be classics of Southwestern American literature.

She died in Santa Fe in 1962 aged 73.