He also coauthored several other books about Navajo language, culture, and history with Leon Wall and Edward Mays.
[1] William Morgan was born on May 15, 1917 in a hogan outside of Gallup, New Mexico, into the Tsi’naajinii (transl.
[1][2][3] In his early years, he attended a boarding school in Tohatchie, Arizona, run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
[2] After graduating high school, Morgan got a job at the Southwest Sheep Breeding Laboratory.
[2] Here, in the fall of 1937, he met Robert Young, a fellow employee with an interest in the Navajo language.