"Navajo Oshley's oral memoir is set on the northern frontier of Navajo land, principally in the San Juan River basin in southeastern Utah and northeastern Arizona. Born sometime between 1879 and 1893, he tells of his early life near Dennehotso, southeast of Monument Valley, and of his travels, before there were roads or many towns, north along Comb Ridge and across the San Juan to Blue Mountain. A sheepherder, he cared for the herds of his extended...