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Homer F. Hastings
Best known as the co-author of a National Park Service handbook on Montezuma Castle, this writer helped turn Southwestern archaeology into clear, accessible reading for general audiences.
1 Audiobook
Montezuma Castle National Monument, Arizona (1977)
by Albert H. Schroeder, Homer F. Hastings
About the author
Homer F. Hastings is credited as the co-author, with Albert H. Schroeder, of Montezuma Castle National Monument, Arizona, a volume in the National Park Service Historical Handbook series first published in 1958 and later reprinted. The book introduces readers to the Sinagua people, the cliff dwellings at Montezuma Castle, and the wider history of the site in central Arizona.
Available catalog and public-domain records consistently point to this handbook as the main work associated with Hastings. Those sources confirm his role in a government-backed, educational publication written to make archaeology and regional history understandable to visitors and non-specialists.
Reliable biographical detail about his life beyond that publication is scarce in the sources I could confirm, so it seems safest to remember him chiefly for this contribution to popular historical writing about the American Southwest.