This is the major literary achievement of a sensitive gifted man.
The author is a Yaqui Indian, a railroad gandy dancer who sees
beauty in iron spikes and rail clamps as well as in twilight-
purple mountains and glossy-leafed cottonwood trees.

In the seventy years following his flight from the Yaqui-Mexican
wars in Sonora, Savala became a talented poet and loving
recorder of his people's cultural heritage. A large sampling
of his original works appear in the interpretations section of
this book. Together with the beautifully written autobiography,
they offer a unique view of Arizona Yaqui culture and history,
railroading in the American West, and the personal and
artistic growth of a Native American man of letters.