Adolph Bandelier (1840-1914) was a Swiss-born emigrant to the United States. He studied under the pioneering anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan and began to focus his scholarly attention on the Native peoples of the American Southwest, Mexico, and South America. Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico is named for this dreamy scholar who combined archaeological and ethnological work.

Fact: Like many white men active in the late 19th century, Bandolier romanticized the ancient peoples he’d investigated, and his book The Delight Makers imagines what life was like for the Ancestral Puebloans.