On a Trail of Southwest Discovery The Expedition Diaries of Frederick W. Hodge and Margaret W. Magill, 1886-1888

"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

Curtis M. Hinsley is Regents’ Professor Emeritus of history at Northern Arizona University and co-editor (with David R. Wilcox) of the first two volumes of Frank Hamilton Cushing and the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, 1886–1889 and Coming of Age in Chicago.

David R. Wilcox was a senior research archaeologist and special assistant to the deputy director at the Museum of Northern Arizona. He is a co-editor (with Curtis M. Hinsley) of the first two volumes of Frank Hamilton Cushing and the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, 1886–1889 and Coming of Age in Chicago.