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1942 · réf. 66289 — New York: Farrar & Rhinehart Inc 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 311pp. Octavo 21 cm Bright red cloth covered boards with a black ink stamped title and gilt stamped designs on the spine and a black ink stamped vignette on the front cover. The extremities are lightly rubbed and the spine is a bit rolled. There is a contemporary owner's inscription on the front pastedown and there is a bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown. In the dust jacket with heavy fading to the spine and a handful of small closed tears to the edges. Frank Waters wrote 27 books including novels biographies histories and essay collections. The majority of his fiction and non-fiction reflects Waters’ wide interest in the culture and religion of Navajo Hopi Pueblo and pre-Columbian peoples. From the dust jacket- The man who killed the deer was Martiniano a Pueblo Indian. Like many of his tribe he was sent away as a youth to an 'away-school' where he learned the ways of the white man. But when he returned Martiniano found himself outcast from his tribe when he refused to participate in the ancient tribal dances to wear a blanket to cut the heels off his shoes or to let his hair grow long. When he married Flowers Playing a beautiful girl from the distant Ute tribe his estrangement from his pueblo grew more acute but not as acute as that fateful day when he shot and killed a deer on the government reservation. This precipitated swift action by the Government against the Pueblo which had been trying for many years to regain its sacred Dawn Lake in the region of the watershed under the Government's protection. Farrar & Rhinehart, Inc hardcover books