Wide ruins : memories from a Navajo trading post / Sallie Wagner ; foreword by Edward T. Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wagner, Sallie R.

Contributor:

Albuquerque Museum.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navajo Indians--Social life and customs.

Navajo Indians.

Navajo Indian Reservation.

Wagner, Sallie R.

Indian traders--Navajo Indian Reservation--Biography.

Indian traders.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 150 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1997]

Summary:

Newlyweds Sallie Wagner and Bill Lippincott came to the Navajo Reservation in 1938. Before they knew it, they owned a trading post at Wide Ruins, Arizona. The years they spent there were the best of their lives, and this lively, honest memoir recalls them in detail Trading post life combined business with the kinds of experiences generally associated with anthropological field work. Like many traders, Sallie Wagner influenced the weavers whose rugs she purchased. She was one of the traders who persuaded weavers to use vegetal dyes, leaving a permanent legacy in Navajo weaving. Tourists discovered Indian reservations in the 1930s, and the Lippincotts were visited often by friends and strangers alike, many unable to navigate reservation roads.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

"Published in cooperation with the Albuquerque Museum."

Includes index.

ISBN:

0826318053

OCLC:

35723644