Named in honor of Adolph F. A. Bandelier, the distinguished Swiss-American scholar, who carried out an extensive survey of prehistoric ruins in the region and studied the Pueblo Indians around Sante Fe between 1880 and 1886. Part of his time was spent in Frijoles Canyon, and the scene of his ethnohistorical novel, THE DELIGHT MAKERS, is laid in the canyon as he pictured it in prehistoric times.

Edward L. Hewett, who directed several excavations in Frijoles Canyon in the early 1900s, saw the need to preserve the ancestral Pueblo sites and was instrumental in its establishment as a national monument. Bandelier National Monument was proclaimed on February 11, 1916; transferred from Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, February 25, 1932. Acreage: 32,737, all federal. Wilderness area: 23,267.

These photographs were taken on July 1, 1971.
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Scanned from original color negatives.

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