These Were The Valiant: A Collection Of New Mexico Profiles

Clark, Ann Nolan

ISBN 10: 0910750181 / ISBN 13: 9780910750189

Published by Calvin Horn Publishers, Albuquerque, NM, 1969

About this Item

First Edition (stated), First Printing. Hard cover 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall in tan cloth w/ brown spine medallion/gold titles. About Fine book w/tape shadow front endpaper, else Fine and unmarked; in Near Fine unclipped DJ w/edgewear and short tears. xiii, 150pp.

Seller Inventory # 025170

Bibliographic Details

• Title: These Were The Valiant: A Collection Of New Mexico Profiles
• Publisher: Calvin Horn Publishers, Albuquerque, NM
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0910750181
• ISBN 13: 9780910750189
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition (stated).
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Western Americana
  • Non-Fiction
  • History

About this title

Synopsis

Ann Nolan Clark, was an American writer who won the 1953 Newbery Medal. She began her career teaching English at the Highlands University. However, in the early 1920s, she transferred to a job teaching Native American children how to read for the Tesuque pueblo people, which lasted for 25 years. Clark found that the underfunded Tesuque School couldn’t afford any substantial instructional material. She wrote her own books for the 1st to 4th grade one-room schoolhouse. Between 1940 and 1951, the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs published 15 of her books, all relating to her experiences with the Native Americans. Her book In My Mother's House, illustrated by Pueblo artist Velino Herrera, was named a Caldecott Honor book in 1942. In 1945, the Institute for Inter-American Affairs sent Clark to live and travel for five years in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil. Those experiences led her to write books such as Magic Money, Looking-for-Something, and Secret of the Andes, which won the 1953 Newbery Medal. In the 1940s she also wrote books for the Haskell Foundation and the Haskell Indian Nations University at Lawrence, KS; one of them " The Slim Butte Raccoon" was illustrated by Andrew Standing Soldier. She also won the Catholic Library Association's 1963 Regina Medal, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs' 1962 Distinguished Service Award. Clark died in 1995 after writing 31 books which took a glance at Native American culture.