Introduces life in a Hopi village in seventeenth-century Arizona, discussing the homes, families and clans, food, clothing, beliefs, and entertainment.
Still trapped in ancient times, fifteen-year-old Walker reluctantly accepts the responsibility of leading a group of Indians on a difficult and dangerous journey across the high desert country of northern Arizona to a new home on the Hopi mesas.
Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest
O'Connor, Sandra Day and Day, H. Alan
2002
Sandra Day O'Connor tells, with her brother, Alan, the story of the Day family, and of growing up on the harsh yet beautiful land of the Lazy B ranch in Arizona.
Nakaidoklinni, a former Apache warrior and scout for the United States Army during the 1870s, becomes a shaman after a vision of a wolf tells him to learn about wolf power, an Apache healing method. He later gains the respect of his people and rallies them to create a peaceful coexistence with the American government, staging a series of non-stop healing dances to combat their despair.
When Lucinda Baker travels to Sycamore Canon in Arizona to be with her new husband, she finds herself lonelier than she thought was possible, and when she is raped by an Apache and becomes pregnant she begins to think she is in over her head.
Spenser heads to Potshot, Arizona when he is hired to investigate the murder of a recent L.A. transplant. The once rough and tumble small town has been transformed by the wealthy Los Angeles residents looking for a quiet place to relax. The peace is threatened when a gang starts harassing the town, and it soon escalates into murder.
The author relates her search to uncover details of her mother's illness and eventual death in 1956, a victim of the polio epidemic that swept the country in the 1940s and 1950s, interspersing her personal story with reporting on the social and historical impact of the disease.
Presents the memoirs of Jean and Bill Cousins, telling about their life together in the trading business during the 1930s and 1940s, focusing on their twelve years at Wide Ruins Trading Post on a corner of the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona, where they were instrumental in developing the Wide Ruins-style natural dye rugs.
