Nine Months Is A Year At Baboquivari School.

EULALIA "SISTER". BOURNE

Publication: The University of Arizona Press, 1968, Tucson

First edition. 12mo. Generic inked inscription by the author on the front fly leaf. Cloth, titles stamped in red ink on front cover and spine, [10], 270 pp., foreword, illustrated, maps. Memoirs of teaching in a one-person school on the Poso Nuevo Ranch, a remote cattle ranch in southern Arizona in the 1930's, focusing on the challenges and rewards of teaching in a rural, predominantly Native American community, capturing the complexities of both the educational environment and the cultural dynamics that come into play when working with children from a community with deep roots in both tradition and modern struggles. Fine in dust jacket with a tiny closed tear to the bottom edge of the front cover.