Robert S. McPherson

"Details the daily lives and adventures of the 1875 Ferdinand V. Hayden survey team, largely through their own personal narratives region geography, and the American expansionist impulse"--Provided by publisher.

Will Evans's writings should find a special niche in the small but significant body of literature from and about traders to the Navajos. Evans was the proprietor of the Shiprock Trading Company. Probably more than most of his fellow traders, he had a strong interest in Navajo culture. The effort he made to record and share what he learned certainly was unusual. He published in the Farmington and New Mexico newspapers and other periodicals, compiling...