Men Met Along the Trail

Neil M. Judd (18871976) was a pioneer of Southwestern archaeology. He participated in 24 investigations and served 39 years at the United States National Museum, a unit of the Smithsonian Institute. He was the principle investigator during the excavations of Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon.Don D. Fowler is the Mamie Kleberg distinguished professor emeritus of anthropology and historic preservation at the University of Nevada, Reno. His publications include A Laboratory for Anthropology: Science and Romanticism in the American Southwest, 1846-1930 and The Western Photographs of John K. Hillers: Myself in the Water.

“This generation of American archeologists can thank men like Neil Judd for giving us vivid insights into some of the techniques and methods of archeology during the first quarter of this [twentieth] century, as well as for providing us with a better understanding of the small group of individuals who were pioneering in the profession of archeology at that time.”—Robert H. Lister, University of Colorado (1969) “This delightful book of reminiscences will be appreciated by archaeologists, Southwestern archaeologists in particular and by all who are interested in the history of the Southwest. . . .Neil Judd must have known almost everybody of consequence in Arizona and New Mexico, and his vignettes about some of these old-timers make them come alive for us who have only heard about them.”—Plains Anthropologist