9780208014566 | 4th edition (Shoe String Pr Inc, June 1, 1976), cover price $27.50 |
About this edition: Accompanies the author's ground-breaking 1938 study of ritual use of the peyote cactus by Mexican and American Indians with surveys of research and studies in the field between 1938 and 1973
9780806122144 | 5 enlarged edition (Univ of Oklahoma Pr, August 1, 1989), cover price $24.95 |
About this edition: For half a century, readers on peyotism have devoured La Barreâs fascinating original study, which began when the author, at age twenty-four, studied the rites of fifteen American Indian tribes using Lophophora williamsii, the small, spineless, carrot-shaped peyote cactus growing in the Rio Grande Valley and southward.