Baron Lahontan's Mysterious Quest

By:   Steven G Baker
Edited by:   Rick Hendricks
Imprint:   Sunstone Press
Dimensions:   Height: 279mm,  Width: 210mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   730g
ISBN:   9781632937209
ISBN 10:   1632937204
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   24 March 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Steven G. Baker earned his BA in anthropology from the University of Kansas and his MA in American History from the University of South Carolina. Baker was an independent locally focused Colorado scholar who has worked as an archaeologist and ethnohistorian for nearly 60 years. He worked in Canada for Parks Canada in the 1960s and gained experience in French Canadian colonial history and archaeology. He was the founder and president of Centuries Research, Inc. of Montrose, Colorado, one of the first cultural resource management firms established in the United States. His most recent significant contributions within a long bibliography extending back to 1967 are Juan Rivera's Colorado, 1765: The First Spaniards Among the Ute and Paiute Indians on the Trails to Teguayo and My Name Is Pacomio: The Life and Works of Colorado's Sheepherder and Master Artist of Nature's Canvases, both in new editions from Sunstone Press. Rick Hendricks (BA, PhD), Author of Foreword, was the New Mexico state historian and now is the Director of the State Records Center and Archives. He is a professional historian, editor, and Spanish translator trained in history and Ibero American Studies. For many years he was an editor of the Vargas Project at the University of New Mexico. His many published works on the history of the American Southwest and Mexico include co-authoring the award-winning book, The Witches of Abiquiu, 1750-1766.