East and West from Texas

This culminating novel in the four volume "Sunny of the Old Southwest" collection follows Virginian Aaron Jefferson and his Navajo wife, now residng in Texas and heirs to a big ranch, as they take a role in the Red River War, the last gasp of the Comanche Nation (the remants of Comancheria) and then return to each others homelands to visit. First, in Virgina and trapped by her snows, they see the first child born in the cabin of Aaron's birth. Decades later, they take all four children (spaced each a year apart and the youngest then nine) to the home of Sunny's Dine People (Navajo), "Dinetah" in the beautiful, austere, red, rocky deserts and canyons. There the youngsters learn of "Mama's" past. Staying for months, the family helps the people, who are still those years later healing and rebuilding from the "Long Walk of the Navajo People," the years in internment in the concentration camp at Bosque Redondo, and the long walk back to their devastated homeland.