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Author
Publisher
Utah State University Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
x, 252 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
West of the Four Corners and east of the Colorado River, in southeastern Utah, a unique one-hundred-mile-long, two-hundred-foot-high, serrated cliff cuts the sky. Whether viewed as barrier wall or sheltering sanctuary, Comb Ridge has helped define life and culture in this region for thousands of years. Today, the area it crosses is still relatively remote, though an important part of a scenic complex of popular tourist destinations that includes Natural...
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xvii, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summer’s work completing a previous survey. Their accomplishments would go down in history as one of the great American surveying expeditions of the nineteenth century. By skillfully weaving the surveyors’ diary entries, field notes, and correspondence with newspaper accounts,...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Colorado
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
x, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Traditional teachings derived from stories and practices passed through generations lie at the core of a well-balanced Navajo life. These teachings are based on a very different perspective of the physical and spiritual world than that found in general American culture. Dinéjí Na'nitin is an introduction to traditional Navajo teachings and history for a non-Navajo audience, providing a glimpse into this unfamiliar domain and illuminating the power...
Author
Publisher
Utah State University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Evans was the proprietor of the Shiprock Trading Company. Probably more than most of his fellow traders, he had a strong interest in Navajo culture. The effort he made to record and share what he learned certainly was unusual. He published in the Farmington, New Mexico, newspaper and other periodicals and compiled many of his pieces into a book manuscript. His subjects were Navajos he knew and traded with, their stories of historic events such as...
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
xxii, 394 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
For almost ninety years, Navajo medicine man John Holiday has watched the sun rise over the rock formations of his home in Monument Valley. Author and scholar Robert S. McPherson interviewed Holiday extensively and in "A Navajo Legacy" records his full and fascinating life.
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
xviii, 301 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Robert S. McPherson presents an intimate history of the Diné, or Navajo people, of southeastern Utah. Moving beyond standard history by incorporating Native voices, the author shows how the Dinéś culture and economy have both persisted and changed during the twentieth century. The Navajos encountered here live according to the traditions of a livestock economy, where religious values provide the core philosophy and where the world is imbued with...
Author
Publisher
Utah State University Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
xii, 216 p. : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Language
English
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Description
The authors recount twelve millennia of history along the lower San Juan River, much of it the story of mostly unsuccessful human attempts to make a living from the river's arid and fickle environment. From the Anasazi to government dam builders, from Navajo to Mormon herders and farmers, from scientific explorers to busted miners, the San Juan has attracted more attention and fueled more hopes than such a remote, unpromising, and muddy stream would...