Research Catalog

Title

Along Navajo trails : recollections of a trader, 1898-1948 / by Will Evans ; edited by Susan E. Woods and Robert S. McPherson ; foreword by Charles S. Peterson.

Author

Evans, Will, 1877-

Publication

Logan : Utah State University Press, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Woods, Susan E. (Susan Evans), 1952-
• McPherson, Robert S., 1947-

Description

xv, 263 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Shiprock Region (N.M.) > History
• Navajo Indians > New Mexico > Shiprock Region > History
• Navajo weavers > New Mexico > Shiprock Region > History
• Indian traders > New Mexico > Shiprock Region > History
• Shiprock Region (N.M.) > Social life and customs
• Navajo Indians > New Mexico > Shiprock Region > Social life and customs
• Trading posts > New Mexico > Shiprock Region > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-[258]) and index.

Contents

Will Evans, trader to the Navajos -- Starting along the trail -- Views of history -- Agapito remembers the old days -- Yellow Horse and the Long Walk -- The establishment of trading posts -- Harry Baldwin and the Hogback Post -- Redrock Trading Post -- Little Singer and the beautiful mountain uprising -- Prosperity in reverse -- Oil and gas on Navajo land -- A Christmas Eve in Navajo land -- Navajo personalities -- Costiano -- Black Horse -- Bizhùshæ -- Ugly Man -- Fat One and Son of Fat One -- Faith, an episode -- Tragedies in Navajo land -- Sandoval -- Slim policeman -- A dedicated medicine man -- Dan Pete -- Living with the people -- Daily life in a hogan -- Navajo hospitality -- Trading with the Navajos -- Navajo blankets -- Silversmithing -- Cleanliness, clothes, and manners -- Hairstyles -- Tobacco, alcohol, and morality -- Navajo marriage customs and family life -- Divorce -- Tribal traditions and lore -- Sandpaintings -- My first fire dance -- Squaw dance (enemyway) -- Death, witchcraft, and skinwalkers -- Navajos and animals -- Postscript: The death of a man, the end of an era.

Call Number

JGE 05-94

ISBN

• 0874216052 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0874216060 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005001650

OCLC

57494056

Author

Evans, Will, 1877-

Title

Along Navajo trails : recollections of a trader, 1898-1948 / by Will Evans ; edited by Susan E. Woods and Robert S. McPherson ; foreword by Charles S. Peterson.

Imprint

Logan : Utah State University Press, c2005.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-[258]) and index.

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Added Author

Woods, Susan E. (Susan Evans), 1952-

McPherson, Robert S., 1947-

Research Call Number

JGE 05-94