A Washington clerk turned Indian agent, Crane describes his service in the Painted Desert country of northern Arizona: rough travel and desert fare, Hopi villages on their mesas, Navajo herders, ceremonies, quarrels between factions, and the daily friction of enforcing government policy on people who resisted it.
A candid, often humorous record of the Indian Service; its attitudes are those of an official of the 1910s. Download the free EPUB.