The Indian Mummy Mystery by Troy Nesbit

The Indian Mummy Mystery by Troy Nesbit

Lyman Cutler tells his grandson Joe a story about his days as a young cowboy when he came across a cliff dwelling containing abandoned pottery and an Indian mummy. When Joe and his friend Denny search for the pottery and mummy, they discover old relics including documents, photographs, and the skull of a man. This story of archaeology and preservation of natural places will thrill young explorers as they follow Joe and Denny's adventure throughout southern Colorado. The recurrent themes of the books in the Wilderness Mystery Series are natural phenomena-caves, canyons, mountains, sand dunes, and forests-and a sense of the past as seen through archaeology. In many of the narratives, events of long ago are seen to have left traces of their passing. Notwithstanding the fact that the books were written in the 1950s, the progressive Franklin Folsom (alias Troy Nesbit) had refreshing views of women, Native Americans, and the environment, and he was prescient in having his characters often oppose corporate and government efforts to develop wilderness areas.

[Folsom] brought high ideals to the [mystery] genre, and he deserves to be better known among those who read and collect series literature* The Mystery & Adventure Series Review *

Troy Nesbit was a nom de plume of the late Franklin Folsom, a graduate of the University of Colorado and Rhodes Scholar at Oxford in 1928. The author of over eighty books under various names, he was also an avocational anthropologist and wrote several scholarly books on Native Americans of the American Southwest.

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ISBN 13	9781589798137
ISBN 10	1589798139
Title	The Indian Mummy Mystery
Author	Troy Nesbit
Series	The Wilderness Mystery Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor Trade Publishing
Year published	2013-05-16
Number of pages	276
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.