An interpretive guide designed to be read before or after visiting Bandelier National Monument. Stuart, an annual lecturer at Bandelier, greatly enhances our appreciation of the monument's "magic" with his evocative, archaeologically sound insights on the area's history of occupation from Paleo-Indian to Late Classic Puebloan times and on the major sites, inc. Tyonyi, Rainbow House, Ceremonial Cave, Yapashi and the Stone Lions, Tsankawi, Otowi. Author of "Prehistoric New Mexico, Glimpses of the Ancient Southwest, and numerous articles on Southwestern archeology, Stuart works and teaches at the University of New Mexico.