Mary Louise Eldridge : missionary and field matron to the Navajos / Valerie Sherer Mathes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mathes, Valerie Sherer, 1941- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eldridge, Mary Louise.

Women missionaries--Southwest, New--Biography.

Women missionaries.

Women missionaries--Southwest, New--Correspondence.

Navajo Indians--Southwest, New--Social conditions--19th century.

Navajo Indians.

Navajo Indians--Southwest, New--Social conditions--20th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Business correspondence.

Physical Description:

pages cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2026]

Summary:

"In "Mary Louise Eldridge," Valerie Sherer Mathes presents a biography and selected archival letters of missionary and federal field matron Mary Louise Eldridge from her tenure within the Navajo Nation in New Mexico Territory, revealing the predicament of the Diné in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

HSP Credit Line: Eldridge to Herbert Welsh [May 20, Jun 22, 1895], Reel 12; Eldridge to Herbert Welsh [May 27, 1898], Reel 13; Eldridge to Herbert Welsh [May 7, 1900], Reel 15; Eldridge to unknown IRA member [Jul 3, 1904], Reel 17; Eldridge to Mrs. Gray [Aug 5, 1904], Reel 17; Eldridge to Mathew Sniffen [Aug 6, 1904], Reel 17; Eldridge to Mathew Sniffen [Jan 26, Aug10, 1905], Reel 18; Eldridge to Mathew Sniffen [Oct 24, 1905?, Dec 5, 1905], Reel 18; Eldridge to Sniffen [May 16, 1906?]], Reel 20; Eldridge to Sniffen [May 26, 1906], Reel 18; Eldridge to Samuel Brosius [May 1908], Reel 20; Eldridge to Sniffen [Dec 12, 1907], Reel 17; Eldridge to Sam Brosius [May 5, May 11, Jun 12, 1908], Reel 20.

ISBN:

9781496246684

1496246683

OCLC:

1527153816