In November 1931, Elizabeth W. Forster accepted a job as a nurse in the remote Navajo community of Red Rock, Arizona. Over the next 18 months, she regularly exchanged letters with her companion, photographer Laura Gilpin, describing her life as one of the few health care workers in the region. On her frequent visits to Red Rock, Gilpin photographed Forster’s friends and the vast landscape of this part of the Navajo Reservation. Finally pulled together, as Forster and Gilpin had long hoped to do themselves, these letters and photographs offer an intimate portrait of a Depression-era community over-looked by government aid programs.