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...sort of convention. The doctors had come from all over the U.S., partly for an outing but mainly to pay their respects to the mission's remarkable chief: big (235 Ibs.) Dr. Clarence G. Salsbury, 62, who is rounding out 20 years of medical missionary work among the Navajo Indians...
When "Big Doctor," as the Indians call him, arrived at Ganado on the Navajo reservation in 1927, after twelve years of missionary doctoring in China, he found the Navajos in a "far sorrier plight than the Chinese." Typhoid, diphtheria and tuberculosis were rampant, and tribal medicine men were about the only "doctors" the Navajos had. Dr. Salsbury got the Presbyterian Board of Missions to build him a two-story stone hospital. He and his wife drove out over the rough wagon trails to drum up trade...
Alarming Bugs. The Navajos, fearful at first of the white man's medicine, watched with blank faces while the doctor treated the white traders. Presently some of the bolder Indians began to ask him to patch up their injured horses and to yank their own aching teeth. The Indians soon discovered that the hospital could be useful, too. When a Navajo dies at home, tribal custom decrees that his hogan (hut) must be burned. By hurrying a dying relative to the hospital, the Navajos learned to save their hogans...
Despite Big Doctor's backbreaking work (his daily schedule: 6:30 a.m. to midnight), Navajo health is still bad (the T.B. rate is 14 times the national average; the infant death rate, seven times). Says Salsbury: the neglected Navajos need more doctors, better sanitation, a more nourishing standard of living...
...that marked a breed of plainsmen, and airplanesmen. Canyon knew the world and its airlanes-and its women-as his granddaddy would have known the way stations on the Overland Trail. So he went into business on a shoestring as Horizons, Unlimited, and took for his trademark an old Navajo double-eagle design (see cover). His first customer would be a tough one: a wolverine of Wall Street, slinky Copper Calhoon...