Navahos Have Five Fingers

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. Very Good+. 1982. Reprint. Paperback. 0806117656 . B&W Illustrations; This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine has noticeable fading. The text pages are clean and bright. "Under the pseudonym T. D. Allen, Don B. And Terril Diener Allen (1908- ) wrote historical fiction and non-fiction about the West and Native Americans. They were best known for Doctor in Buckskin (1951) , based on the story of Marcus Whitman, a doctor and missionary in the Oregon territory; Troubled Border (1954) , about John McLoughlin, head of the Hudson Bay Company's outpost at Fort Vancouver; Navahos Have Five Fingers (1963) , an account of the couple's stay at a Navaho reservation and the people they met there; and Miracle Hill (1967) , the story of a young Navaho boy, Mitchell Blackhorse. Terry Diener was a professor of creative writing; a director of communications arts for the U. S. Government's Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1968-1974; and lecturer and specialist on American Indians at the University of California, Santa Cruz, 1969-1974." (Archives West) .