Navaho Trading Days by Elizabeth Compton Hegemann

Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. Orders usually ship within 2 business days. The correspondence also helps us understand Harrison’s personality and thoughts on the treatment of Native Americans, views on General George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn, and other western topics.Domestic shipping within the United States is by USPS Media Mail with delivery confirmation or, at the customers option, USPS Priority Mail with delivery confirmation. His correspondence provides a record of the role Michael Harrison played in helping others research and write about western topics. He also corresponded with university faculty and students history buffs fellow club members in book clubs, Westerners International groups, the Little Big Horn Associates, and other western interest groups national park service administrators and other government agents friends and family. His letters often discuss the purchase of books or his thoughts on an author’s research and handling of a subject. Michael Harrison corresponded with many authors, museum directors, and editors of western presses. Michael Harrison at the Grand Canyon National Park, circa 1925 Correspondence Michael Harrison also collected photographs relating to his subject interests. Other photographs include those from family and friends as well as illustrative photographs, and postcards found in books. The photographic work of Elizabeth Compton (later Hegemann), Harrison’s first wife, is to be found in the early photographs. An early photograph album from the 1920s of Grand Canyon days documents Harrison’s work as a Grand Canyon National Park Service ranger and his interest in the Navajo and Hopi peoples. Harrison documenting their lives from an early baby photograph of Michael Harrison in 1898 to Michael’s birthday celebrations at 100 and subsequent years.

Photographs in the collection are primarily personal photographs of Michael and Margaret B. Harrison Western Research Center Collection

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Navaho Trading Days by Elizabeth Compton Hegemann