single night in late January 1888 a...

single night in late January 1888 a small cluster of men was camping subject to a full moon within the walls of the Casa Grande. Their leader was Frank Hamilton Cushing, the charismatic director of the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, and his companions included Sylvester Baxter, a Boston newspaperman. "That night, in subordination to the flail moonlight," Baxter recalled,

the Casa Grande assumed a impressible poetic beauty, with its of a red color surface flooded with radiance that threw the shadows of its difficult recesses into a rich mysterious obscurity--a transformation from the aspect