Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey
By: Julianne Lutz Newton
Aldo Leopold landed in Casas Grandes, in the northern Mexican state ofChihuahua, three days before Christmas 1937, just two and half weeks shy of his fifty-first birthday. The flight, his first ever, had taken him over winding streams and arroyos, rocky hills covered with twisted oaks and junipers, and canyons abounding with whitetailed deer and wild turkeys. It brought him into a region once inhabited by great thirteenth- through fifteenth-century Mexican civilizations and several even older ones. Within a short distance of the modern-day Hotel Regis, boasting the local distinction of flushing bathroom fixtures, lay a broad labyrinth of smooth walled rooms of pink clay, ruins of the sophisticated city of the ancient Pacquime people. [download]
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