Bücher von Robert S. McPherson

Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit secret communications on the battlefield. Based on extensive interviews with Robert McPherson, Under the Eagle is Holiday's vivid account of his own story.

In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summer's work completing a previous survey. By skillfully weaving the surveyors' diary entries, field notes, and correspondence with newspaper accounts, this book brings the survey to life.

For travellers passing through northern Navajo country, the landscape appears desolate. The remaining Navajo trading posts unimpressive. Yet a closer look at the economic and creative activity in this region belies a more interesting picture. Robert McPherson unveils the history of the merging of cultures and artistic innovation across this land.

Archaeologists have long studied the American Southwest, but as historian Robert McPherson shows in Viewing the Ancestors, their findings may not tell the whole story. McPherson maintains that combining archaeology with knowledge derived from the oral traditions of the Navajo, Ute, Paiute, and Hopi peoples yields a more complete history.