Desert Wife
- Author
- Faunce, Hilda, 1887-1979
- Published
- [Place of publication not identified] : UNP - Nebraska, 2014.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (154 pages)
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- Contents
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgment; Introduction by Frank Waters; Chapter I: Off His Range; Chapter II: Following the Old Oregon Trail; Chapter III: From Salt Lake to New Mexico; Chapter IV: A Business Deal; Chapter V: Home; Chapter VI: Indian Ways and Wiles; Chapter VII: Blanket Indians-and a "Schoolman"; Chapter VIII: Life as Usual; Chapter IX: Life Unusual; Chapter X: I Give Up; Chapter XI: Home Again; Chapter XII: Immediate Attention; Chapter XIII: Hopi; Chapter XIV: The Sickness with the Sores; Chapter XV: Guarded Gold. and Chapter XVI: We Hear More of the World WarChapter XVII: Quick Death; Back Cover.
- Summary
- ""This is the compelling narrative of the wife of an Indian trader in the desert wilderness of the Navajos before World War I. No other book about life at such trading posts equals its revealing portrayal of the land and the people, and its implication of the racial differences still confronting us today.""--The introduction by Frank Waters.
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- ISBN
- 9780803274631 (electronic bk.)
0803274637 (electronic bk.)
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