THORD’S FIFTH marriage, in 1933, to Winnefred Ingersoll, lasted until her death in 1960. Financially independent thanks to his marriages, Thord could afford to pursue peacetime activities from his home in Miami, Florida.
His notes on the language of the Tarahumara Indias were compiled into a lexicon. The University of Miami Press printed 800 copies of this exhaustive lexicon that were gifted to institutions and researchers around the world.
Thord was sought after as speaker at 25 universities on subjects ranging from Mexico’s ancient history to the war in Siberia. He also took every opportunity to warn Americans about the dangers posed by communism, but he also blamed ‘a short-sighted, thick-headed, self-righteous upper class ‘ for this ideology: ‘These haughty idiots are responsible for the existence of communism.’
