Dancing Cloud: The Navajo boy

by Mary Buff

Close to the foot of the high red cliff of Pottery Butte is a Navajo Hogan, Here lives Dancing Cloud and sister Lost Tooth. this is their winter home altho they live in other hogans as they drive their sheep to other pastures. This story details their everyday life of tending flocks,shearing sheep, weaving blankets and personal adventures of the Navajo life.juvenile

78 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1937

About the author

Mary Buff, formerly known as Mary Marsh, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on April 10, 1890. Mary had an early interest in arts and poetry but only continued to study art. She studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and at the Cincinnati Art Academy and received her bachelor's degree in Kansas at Bethany College. Mary then lived in Albion, Idaho and in the 1920s settled in Los Angeles. In 1922 she married Conrad Buff. Mary was the assistant curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her income was large enough to allow her husband, Conrad Buff, to paint full-time. After marrying Conrad Buff, Mary gave up her pursuit of painting to write children`s books with him. She died in 1970.