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.
 "This story is a must read for those interested in the Navajo people in the early days. Sallie Wagner has managed to catch and retain the essence of what it meant to be white in a Navajo world that was unbelievably different."--Edward T. Hall

Wide Ruins: Memories from a Navajo Trading Post

Biographies & Memoirs

Wagner, Sallie

Community & Culture

University of New Mexico Press

1983 Northland Press in cooperation with The School of American Research. Wraps show moderate wear in the form of several scratches on front cover. Spine is uncreased. Ink inscription to previous owner and previous owner's name is written in ink are on FFEP. Binding is tight. No marks, underlines, notations or highlighting. This book gives the reader "a rare opportunity to know a Native American artisit who is at once traditional and inventive, well-known and obscure: an enigma in the larger mainstream American art world."Proceeds benefit Oro Valley AZ Public Library.1983 Northland Press in cooperation with The School of American Research. Wraps show moderate wear in the form of several scratches on front cover. Spine is uncreased. Ink inscription to previous owner and previous owner's name is written in ink are on FFEP. Binding is tight. No marks, underlines, notations or highlighting. This book gives the reader "a rare opportunity to know a Native American artisit who is at once traditional and inventive, well-known and obscure: an enigma in the larger mainstream American art world."Proceeds benefit Oro Valley AZ Public Library.1983 Northland Press in cooperation with The School of American Research. Wraps show moderate wear in the form of several scratches on front cover. Spine is uncreased. Ink inscription to previous owner and previous owner's name is written in ink are on FFEP. Binding is tight. No marks, underlines, notations or highlighting. This book gives the reader "a rare opportunity to know a Native American artisit who is at once traditional and inventive, well-known and obscure: an enigma in the larger mainstream American art world."Proceeds benefit Oro Valley AZ Public Library.

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