Tall Sheep: Harry Goulding, Monument Valley Trader. (book reviews)

In 1925, Harry Goulding opened a trading post in Monument Valley and started an unending love affair with the land and the Navajo. For the next four decades, he and his wife, "Mike," lived among, traded with, learned from, and, to a degree, became a part of the Navajo. Samuel Moon, Professor Emeritus of English at Knox College, uses Dibe Neez("Tall Sheep," Goulding's Navajo name) as a vehicle to present a personal history of the remote Monument Valley community of the Navajo Reservation.

Goulding witnessed the extension of the reservation to that region as well as ...

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