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and his ability to capture both the action and spirit of his subjects led to many important mural and portrait commissions throughout the United States

luminous colors of his paintings

Born and raised in New Mexico

Stephen Fried tells the story of how this visionary built his business from a single lunch counter into a family empire whose marketing and innovations we still encounter in myriad ways

The Scalpel and the Silver Bear Sale and re-photographedThe First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing A spellbinding journey between two worlds, this remarkable book describes surgeon Lori Arviso Alvord's struggles to bring modern medicine to the Navajo reservation in Gallup, New Mexico and to bring the values of her people to a medical care system in danger of losing its heart. Dr. Alvord left a dusty reservation in New Mexico for Stanford University Medical School,