Admirably told with a quiet authority in limpid and poetic prose, Waterless Mountain is a sincere and beautiful story of a present-day Navaho Indian boy, full of imagination and poetry and the dignity of his race.

The eight years of his training in a deep understanding of the ancient religion of his people as well as in a practical knowledge of material existence is vividly painted against the arid sand wastes. This portrayal of the life of a tribe that has lived for centuries in Northern Arizona gives the reader also an acquaintance with the animals, trees, prehistoric cliff-dwellings of the west and the mystical beauty of the legends and traditions of the Navaho through the eyes and mind of the hero. The author is well known in the South-west for the many copies of the sand paintings she has made for the Rockfeller Museum of Santa Fe. 

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