Linda McGee, a recipient of the Golden Scribe Seal of Literary Excellence, was born in New Mexico and raised in Arizona. She’s the daughter of Charles and Marian McGee who were among the last of the original Indian traders.
Her childhood unfolded in remote trading posts on the Navajo Reservation, where the land listened and In the end, time just didn’t matter. It was a world shaped by silence, distance, and the quiet rhythms of a people deeply rooted in tradition.
In these pages, she reveals a tragic turning point in her family’s life, after which her parents were, for a time, lost to themselves, until they found solace and a fragile harmony among the Diné, the Navajo people.
Few can imagine the world she knew: sacred ceremonies held in hushed reverence with medicine men whose presence spoke beyond words, and moments of mystery that asked only to be felt, not explained.
Secrets of the Canyon is told through the eyes of an eight-year-old girl living within that fleeting, fragile magic. The trading posts have vanished now, and the era has nearly slipped into silence, but its spirit persists.
And within these pages, it breathes again.