TY - BOOK AU - Evans,Will AU - McPherson,Robert S. AU - Woods,Susan E. ED - Project Muse. TI - Along Navajo Trails: Recollections of a Trader 1898-1948 SN - 9780874215236 AV - E99.N3 E93 2005 U1 - 979.1004/9726 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Logan PB - Utah State University Press KW - Indian traders KW - New Mexico KW - Shiprock Region KW - History KW - Trading posts KW - Navajo weavers KW - Navajo Indians KW - Social life and customs KW - Shiprock Region (N.M.) KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-[258]) and index; Will Evans, trader to the Navajos -- Starting along the trail -- Views of history around the Four Corners -- Agapito remembers the old days -- Yellow Horse and the Long Walk -- The establishment of trading posts -- Harry Baldwin and the Hogback Post -- Redrock Trading Post -- Little Singer and the beautiful mountain uprising -- Prosperity in reverse -- Oil and gas on Navajo land -- A Christmas Eve in Navajo land -- Navajos I have known -- Costiano -- Black Horse -- Bizhóshí -- Ugly Man -- Fat One and Son of Fat One -- Faith, an episode -- Tragedies in Navajo land -- Sandoval -- Slim policeman -- A dedicated medicine man -- Dan Pete -- Daily life and customs of the Navajo people -- Daily life in a hogan -- Navajo hospitality -- Trading with the Navajos -- Navajo blankets -- Silversmithing -- Cleanliness, clothes, and manners -- Hairstyles -- Tobacco, alcohol, and morality -- Navajo marriage customs and family life -- Divorce -- Tribal traditions and lore -- Sandpaintings -- My first fire dance -- Squaw dance (enemyway) -- Death, witchcraft, and skinwalkers -- Navajos and animals -- Postscript: The death of a man, the end of an era UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/9311/ ER -