Shine Smith

Hugh Dickson “Shine” Smith was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1912 and assigned to a church in Coleman, Texas where he became a “cowboy preacher for four years. He also became savvy in the cattle business. By 1917 he was ministering to the Navajo in northern Arizona.  He learned their language while pastoring at a church in Chinle but after three years, he became a freelance missionary working out of Tuba City, covering the vast Navajo Reservation on horseback and later in an old