People of the Valley

I learned about Frank Waters while I was visiting New Mexico. I stayed at the Frank Waters room at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, and I was curious to find out more about this New Mexican author. I visited the Taos Book Gallery and found this fiction book along with a nonfiction book by Waters. I read both this book and his other book during my travels in New Mexico, registered both of them at BookCrossing, and released them.

People of the Valley is a wise story of a woman, Dona Maria of the Valley. She grew up as a part of the natural world and gradually came to know the wider world. As she learned about both worlds, her people came to see her as a leader, and sought her advice.