Wide ruins : memories from a Navajo trading post

Author(s)

• Wagner, Sallie R.
• Albuquerque Museum

Bibliographic Information

Wide ruins : memories from a Navajo trading post

Sallie Wagner ; foreword by Edward T. Hall

University of New Mexico Press, c1997

1st ed

• : pbk.

Note

"Published in cooperation with the Albuquerque Museum"

Includes index

Contents of Works

• A business unto itself
• Under the cottonwoods
• Bad roads and worse
• Rugs for trade or cash
• Visitors expected and unexpected
• Between Gallup and Chambers
• A day at the trading post
• Christmas at Wide Ruins
• Joe and Jimmy Toddy
• Witchcraft
• After the war

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This lively memoir describes trading post life from 1938 to 1950 and the many changes experienced by Navajos and all Americans during and after World War II

Table of Contents

A business unto itself -- Under the cottonwoods -- Bad roads and worse -- Rug for trade or cash -- Visitors expected and unexpected -- Between Gallup and Chambers -- A day at the trading post -- Christmas at Wide Ruins -- Joe and Jimmy Toddy -- Witchcraft -- After the war.

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Details

• NCID: BA90871006
• ISBN:
  • 0826318053
• LCCN: 96045821
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albuquerque
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 150 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : E99.N3
  • DC21 : 979.1/35004972
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Navajo Indians -- Social life and customs
  • LCSH : Navajo Indian Reservation
  • LCSH : Wagner, Sallie R
  • LCSH : Indian traders -- Navajo Indian Reservation -- Biography