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Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Grey cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xii,388pp; illus. Covers very slightly bowed; mild foxing to text block edges, else tight and Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped, lightly worn at extremities with some mild soiling visible on lighter portions; Very Good. A lightly-used copy. Remarkable memoir of Elizabeth Hegemann, a white American author who traveled extensively in Native American communities in the Southwest in the years before WW2. This richly photo-illustrated memoir records Hegemann's decade-long career, beginning around 1929, as proprietor of the Shonto trading post, one of the remotest outposts of the Navajo reservation. The book was published shortly after Hegemann's death in 1962.