| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.1

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Book Review

Tall Woman: The Life Story of Rose Mitchell, A Navajo Woman, c. 1874–1977. Edited by Charlotte J. Frisbie. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. liii + 552 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $29.95, paper.)

This stellar, life history crowns Charlotte Frisbie's distinguished career in Navajo Studies. Frisbie, now a professor emerita, was a master's student in 1963 when she met eighty-nine-year-old Rose Mitchell, whose (translated) Navajo name, Tall Woman, is used throughout the book. After Tall Woman observed Frisbie recording her husband's life (see Navajo Blessingway Singer: The Autobiography of Frank Mitchell, 1881–1967, ed. Charlotte Frisbie and David McAllester, Tucson, 1978), she agreed to share her story. Her trust was well-placed; Frisbie's meticulous scholarship shows in the excellent introduction and epilogue, over 100 pages of detailed notes, a complete genealogy, a year-by-year chronology placing Tall Woman's family in the context of Navajo history, and a twenty-five-page bibliography, all of which accompany the smoothly edited narrative. . . .

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