Navaho Trading Days/ a Remarkable Narrative with 318 Rare Photographs

Elizabeth C. Hegemann (1897-1962) traveled through Arizona and Southern California when married to her first husband, Mike Harrison, who was a National Park Service employee. She and Harry Rorick, her second husband, ran the Shonto Trading Post west of Tsegi Canyon on the Navajo Reservation for ten years from 1929 until it burned down around 1938. Hegemann's photographs document interaction between Anglos and Indians, ceremonial dances, trading post life, and archaeological monuments that have been altered by time. Her text recounts her travels around Navaho country, especially the northeastern portion of the Reservation. She comments on her meetings with John Galsworthy, Charles F. Lummis, William Randolph Hearst, and Will Rogers.