About The Author

Carolyn O’Bagy Davis is a fourth-generation descendant of Utah pioneers and has written nine books on the history of archaeology, quilting, and western history. She earned her B.A. degree in Anthropology from the University of Arizona. Carolyn lectures extensively to history, archaeology, and quilting groups around the country and has curated many traveling museum exhibits.

Carolyn has been very involved in the quilting community and appeared on several quilting television programs. In September 2010, she was inducted into the Arizona Quilter’s Hall of Fame.

Carolyn just finished a book on the Hopi people, co-authored with the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office. She is also working on biographies of a Hopi quilter and basket maker, Editha Watson, an early anthropologist for the Navajo Tribe, and Willard J. Page, a landscape artist who lived and worked in the Southwest in the 1930s and 1940s. In a new venture, Davis is also collaborating with descendants of John Wetherill, discoverer of Mesa Verde, on a book about the discoveries and adventures of John and Louisa Wetherill, and their lives among the Navajos of northern Arizona.