BEYOND THE BLACK BUTTES: True stories of Hopiland [SOLD]
- Subject: Hopi
- Item # C3516W
- Date Published: First edition, hardback, 1933, autographed by the author, decorative red cloth cover
- Size: 178 pages, illustrated with photographs, excellent condition. SOLD
BEYOND THE BLACK BUTTES: True stories of Hopiland
By Abigail E. Johnson
Publisher: The Western Baptist Publishing Company, Kansas City, MO
First edition, hardback, 1933, autographed by the author, decorative red cloth cover, 178 pages, illustrated with photographs, excellent condition.
Tells the story of Abigail Johnson who was a Baptist missionary to the Hopi Indians of Arizona for 28 years and how she was eventually accepted despite original opposition.
CONTENTS
I. Going to Arizona
II. Holbrook
III. Order by Mail
IV. Half Way House
V. The House with a Court
VI. Adopted
VII. The Homes up Under the Blue Sky
VIII. An Old Organ
IX. Opposition
X. Yukiwma’s Daughter
XI. A Time of Drought
XII. Salako
XIII. Dreams
XIV. Quicksands and Washes
XV. Unwelcome Guests
XVI. Under the North Star
XVII. Storms
XVIII. Street Meetings
XIX. Difficulties
XX. The Christian Student
XXI. Reconciliation
XXII. The Community House
XXIII. Recreation and Sight-Seeing
XXIV. Standing and Training
FROM THE PREFACE
This is a story of Hopiland!
The author has been a missionary among the American Indians for thirty-five years, twenty-eight of which have been spent with the Hopis.
From the first chapter, which describes her journey, to the last chapter which brings the work right up to the present, keen interest will be felt. The many intimate word pictures of the early days—opposition, superstition—the gradual development manifest in the lives of the Christians, and even the description of the country itself make it a book that will not soon be forgotten!
Hand written inscription on first flyleaf:
Dorothy Bruce 1/9/34
Met the author at Miss Blakely’s at the time I purchased book. Miss Johnson is a missionary to the Indians at present stationed at the Sunlight Mission at Toreva, Arizona (meeting of writer was a coincidence)
- Subject: Hopi
- Item # C3516W
- Date Published: First edition, hardback, 1933, autographed by the author, decorative red cloth cover
- Size: 178 pages, illustrated with photographs, excellent condition. SOLD
Publisher:
- The Western Baptist Publishing Company
- Kansas City, MO
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