“The book is a marvelous and eminently readable chronicle of an epic period in early southwestern archaeology and the lives (and loves) of those who were participants therein. It should be in the library of everyone interested in the histories of American anthropology and nineteenth-century western America.”—Don Fowler, author of Southwest Archaeology in the Twentieth Century “On a Trail of Southwest Discovery is a fantastic combination of biographical and autobiographical writing that focuses on the personnel who participated in a major expedition and their experiences. In so doing, it provides a multifaceted insight into field camp experiences in the late 1880s, the goings-on of the expedition, Cushing, and a detailed biography of Hodge, another key figure in Southwestern archaeology.”—Thatcher A. Seltzer-Rogers, Albuquerque Archaeological Society Newsletter