"Those of us who love the high desert always hope to run into fellows who really know the country & its people. Such a man is Jackson Clark, & this is the book we yearned for him to write."--Tony Hillerman. A trader for more than forty years, third-generation Southwesterner, founder of the Durango Collection, & raconteur, Jackson Clark presents a series of poignant, fascinating memories of people & places from his youth & his days as a dealer in Southwestern art. Through his eyes we meet such legendary figures as John Wetherill, Harry Goulding, Father Harold Liebler, & Louis L'Amour, as well as some of the best Navajo & Pueblo artisans. These engaging tales offer a unique picture of the mid-twentieth-century Southwest as few contemporaries saw it, & as none are likely to see it again. "In...THE OWL IN MONUMENT CANYON is a life well lived. It is a collection of vibrant, moving, oftentimes humorous stories gathered up in the name of desert relations."--Terry Tempest Williams.