Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This elegant edition features an afterword by Dr. Keith Carabine, specialist in American literature and former chair of the Joseph Conrad society. One night on the Thames, Charles Marlowe tells his fellow sailors the vivid and brutal tale of his time...

This qualitative study is seeks to establish a historical source for a relatively unknown Jeddito Trading Post in Jeddito, Arizona. The thesis started as a question: what kept the Jeddito Trading Post in business for seventy-one years? The trading post was established in 1901 and closed its doors in 1972. The post was part of a Navajo Reservation wide phenomenon which helped sustain the Jeddito community through good and lean years. This study analyzes...

At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins a mysterious girl named Claire. As Will's destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians,...

Gladwell Richardson was born on Sept. 4, 1903 in Alvarado, Texas. He divided his childhood between Oklahoma and Arizona. Gladwell was self-taught and attended two institutions of higher education. He worked on the Houck Trading Post from 1918-1920 when he joined the Marines in San Francisco and soon released because of this age. A few months later he joined the Navy with his parents consent where he served in the states and the South Pacific. After...

Looks at the history of Navajo rugs, describes how the rugs are made, and discusses the influence of trading posts.