The Enchanted Canyon

Honor Willsie Morrow was an Iowa native with a love of history. She spent ten years researching Abraham Lincoln and produced the Great Captain trilogy -- Forever Free (1927), With Malice Toward None (1928) and The Last Full Measure (1930). She wrote Western stories and for Collier's and Harper's Weekly, and was editor of a women's magazine called The Delineator from 1914 to 1919. The Enchanted Canyon draws on Morrow's life in Arizona, where she spent several years with her construction-engineer husband. It combines romance and an interest in landscape and reclamation, to present a vivid picture of life in the southwest.