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The President Slept Here: Theodore Roosevelt’s 1913 Visit to Kayenta and Beyond… by Harvey Leake (With assistance from Natalie Cunningham)

by stiles • July 30, 2019 • 4 Comments

How would you feel if you learned that a former president was coming to stay at your home? In 1913, fifteen-year-old Sister Wetherill was both excited and worried when she heard that Theodore Roosevelt would be spending some time at…

by stiles • December 2, 2018 • 2 Comments

The recent controversies swirling around Bears Ears National Monument are only the latest in a series of struggles resulting from attempts to increase federal government involvement with exceptional places in the Utah/Arizona borderlands region of the Colorado Plateau. Elmo R.…

by stiles • September 30, 2018 • 2 Comments

“When I was a young boy, about six years old, my grandfather and mother started me on the path of light.” —Wolfkiller Found among the papers of my great-grandmother, Louisa Wade Wetherill, was a remarkable story of early Navajo life…

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Tag Archive for Louisa Wetherill

The President Slept Here: Theodore Roosevelt’s 1913 Visit to Kayenta and Beyond… by Harvey Leake (With assistance from Natalie Cunningham)

by stiles • July 30, 2019 • 4 Comments

The Early Fight for Glen Canyon and the Rainbow Plateau…by Harvey Leake

by stiles • December 2, 2018 • 2 Comments

The Wisdom of Wolfkiller: A Nineteenth Century Navajo Shepherd and Sage…By Harvey Leake

by stiles • September 30, 2018 • 2 Comments