What is "crownpoint"

Usage examples of "crownpoint".

The grainy copy had come from the boy's portrait in last year's Crownpoint High School yearbook.

He and the captain at Crownpoint hadn't agreed on how an investigation should be handled.

Streib took the short way from Window Rock to Crownpoint and a conference with Lieutenant Ed Toddy, in whose reservation precinct Eric Dorsey had died.

And the people I knew when I was working out of Crownpoint thought Chester was a jerk.

Nor, come to think of it, at Crownpoint when he'd worked out of there.

In the map on the wall behind his desk he put a pin at Tano Pueblo, and another between Crownpoint and Thoreau, about where Kanitewa had stayed with his father.

The memos Virginia had left on his blotter asked him to return calls from Lieutenant Toddy at Crownpoint and Captain Largo at Tuba City.

Probably at the Navajo Nation Fair at Window Rock, or the Crownpoint Rug Auction.

He had met Davis in person the next year at the rug weavers' cooperative auction at Crownpoint, and Davis's thanks had been embarrassingly effusive.

But when she came to New Mexico, the first day when there was enough wind to blow away the sound, she’d driven out into the emptiness on the road toward Crownpoint and practiced with it.

From Window Rock through Yah-Ta-Hey, to Crownpoint, to those final twenty jarring dirt miles to the Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

Leaphorn remembered a night a lifetime ago when he was young, a patrolman working out of the Crownpoint subagency.

From Crownpoint northeast, the wire wandered across the rolling grassland, attached mostly to fence posts and relying on its own poles only when no fence was available going in the right direction.

Looking for a suspect at the Crownpoint rug auction where Mary was—as he finally realized—looking for the proper trophy to take back to Wisconsin to sire her Wisconsin children.

Beautiful blue-eyed blonde teacher at Crownpoint Middle School, and I wanted to marry her, and she liked the idea but she let me know that what she wanted was somebody to take back to her family’s big dairy farm in Wisconsin, and I’d be the male she rescued from the savages.