This weekend in Santa Fe we’ll be talking about Mary Colter and her fascinating influence on Southwestern style–at the New Mexico History Museum and historic La Fonda Hotel.

One thing we’ll discuss is how this group of men and women–led by Santa Fe railroad president E.P. Ripley and his wife, along with Ford Harvey–took a journey from Albuquerque to the Grand Canyon in the fall of 1901 that marked the beginning of traveling and living in the Southwest as we know it. Come find out how in my talk at La Fonda at 4pm Saturday. Or read about it in Chapter 21 of Appetite for America.

from Appetite for America, courtesy of Braun Research Library/Autry National Center

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