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Abigail E. Johnson
  • 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 daysopposition, superstitionthe 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)

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Abigail E. Johnson
  • 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

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