Mr. Cushman allows us to share Indian life as they lived on the margins of the economy and edged into the 20th C., not that many of westerners were any better--we didn't have electricty on the ranch until the Rural Electrification Act of 1938.
"He looked around for Mama, but she had not come out. So instead he spoke to a very old Indian who was seated beside the house, crosslegged in the dust, sunning himself, his sombrero over his eyes."
"He looked around for Mama, but she had not come out. So instead he spoke to a very old Indian who was seated beside the house, crosslegged in the dust, sunning himself, his sombrero over his eyes."
