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50 COMMON REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST
by Jonathan Hanson & Roseann Beggy Hanson. Wonderful color photos of the "creatues" - so good you can easily identify what's about to strike or bite you just from the photos in this book. Condition: UNREAD 1997 Southwest Parks & Monuments Assn. soft cover, no edition given. Content: A guide to identifying the common reptiles and amphibians of the southwest, including 50 color photographs and descriptions for each. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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ACROSS FRONTIERS: Hispanic Crafts of New Mexico
by Dexter Cirillo. Color and B&W photos by Eric Swanson. Condition: NEW 1998 Chronicle Books soft cover, first edition, first printing. Content: Since the 1600s, the influence of the Spanish has manifest itself in the art and culture of Mexico and the U.S. This book covers the Hispanic craft movement in the Southwestern U.S., specifically in New Mexico. The work of the 80+ contemporary artists showcased here represents a new aesthetic derived from a rich tradition. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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ANSWERED PRAYERS: Miracles and Milagros Along the Border
by Eileen Oktavec. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 1998 University of Arizona Press Trade PB, third printing. Foreword by Bernard Fontana. Content: Examined here is the age-old practice of using, as a petition to the saints, tiny gold and silver figures of women, men, hearts, eyes, limbs, babies, children, cars, boats, and many other items that need fixing or healing, all of which are known as milagros. Oktavec's book provides a thorough history of milagros (the usage actually originated in Europe and was brought to the New World with the conquistadors). She talks with persons who have had their prayers answered and observes many of the faithful as they visit statues of their patron saints to request favors or blessings. Milagros are usually left as an expression of thanks for favors granted or as a tangible reminder to the saint that the favor still needs granting. However, as Oktavec discovers, they are increasingly being used in jewelry and other decorative arts. Answered Prayers is a superb look at the intensity of religious faith and a brief glimpse of the fascinating cultural traditions that support the customs and beliefs associated with milagros. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF COLORADO
by E. Steve Cassells. Tons of B&W drawings, photos, & maps. Condition: NEW 1998 Johnson large Trade Paperback, revised edition, first printing. Content: Archaeologist Steve Cassells details the prehistory of Colorado from the Paleo-Indian mammoth and bison hunters through the Archaic, Fremont, and Plains Woodland peoples to the Anasazi of the southwest and the historic Utes and Plains Indians. The author draws on unpublished reports, personal communications, and exhaustive research in the printed literature to make this a book in which even specialists will find new and exciting material. Significant sites from every cultural stage and every part of the state are examined, and an "Archaeological Scrapbook" presents thumbnail sketches of many of the colorful and significant archaeologists who have influenced the development of the science in the state. Completely revised and updated, this is still the most comprehensive and important book on the subject ever published. It provides a complete overview for the professional and amateur archaeologist and a fine introduction for anyone interested in the prehistory of the West. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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ARIZONA TRIVIA
compiled by James Crutchfield. Condition: UNREAD 2001 Rutledge Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: Everything you ever wanted to know about Arizona - and more, most likely. This is really a great resource book - or just an interesting read. It covers: yThe first Hollywood movie filmed in Monument Valley; the average depth of the Grand Canyon; How many days of sunshine throughout the year Arizona offers; What cactus can weigh up to ten tons; and more. With engaging sections on the history, culture, people, and places of the fascinating Grand Canyon State, this jam-packed book promises hours of entertainment and education. Sure to delight every Arizona native and those just passing through, too. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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BLACK RANGE TALES: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest, Part 1
by James A. McKenna (Uncle Jimmie). Cover art by John P. Wagner. Condition: UNREAD 1974 Comstock paperback (Ballantine) first printing. Unread but not perfect: edgewear with rubbings along back hinge. Interior clean & tight but beginning to tan. Content: In 1877 James McKenna came to New Mexico to mine silver. This is what he left behind. First published in 1936, Black Range Tales has become one of the classics of southwest Americana. In his inimitable style, "Uncle Jimmie" tells of prospecting, Indian fights, exploration, town life and all the characters from the early days of the Black Range, the Mogollons, and the rest of the Gila Country of southwest New Mexico. The result is alternately humorous, poignant, amazing or insightful; a singular look at the times. And most of all these tales are true, for by golly, James A. McKenna was there. This is just Part One. [1 copy available]
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THE CENTURIES OF SANTA FE
by Paul Horgan (Pulitzer Prize winner). B&W drawings illustrate. Cover art Paul Davis. Condition: ood+, 1965 Dutton paperback, first printing. Spine crease with short crease top front cover edge, tanning to white cover edges but NO tanning to interior. Inside clean & tight. Content: This is the detailed history of one of the great cities in the American Southwest - the mythic, lyrical, mystical Santa Fe. Horgan covers the period from 1620 to roughly 1956 (the original first edition). If you love New Mexico and Santa Fe (as do I), this is the book for you. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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COLORADO GHOST TOWNS: Past and Present
by Robert L. Brown. Wonderful B&W "then-and-now" B&W photos and the cover represents one of my favorite cities in the US - Creede, Colorado. Condition: Gently pre-read (by me) 1987 Caxton Printers Trade Paperback, fifth printing. There are some notes and a few highlighted sentences as I used this book as a source for a book I was ghosting. Overall, in great condition. Content: The term "ghost town" is really not appropriate to many of the towns in this book. Most were old mining towns, but still have thriving populations today and great tourist traffic, i.e., Creede and Lake City, Colorado. History, nostalgia, and detailed travel directions combine to provide background for exploring sixty-five of Colorado's ghost towns and mining camps. Brown pairs early and contemporary photographs of many towns, as he tells of the people and places from the 1800s. "Brown's stock-in-trade is the then-and-now picture, and his Jeeping enthusiasts won't be disappointed in this collection of photographs. He has spent hours studying locations to get exactly the right angle to reproduce a spot taken perhaps 100 years earlier." [1 copy available]
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COLORADO HOT SPRINGS GUIDE, Second Edition
by Rick Cahill. B&W photos & maps. Condition: Gently pre-read (at least partially), 1994 Prewett Trade Paperback, revised & updated edition, first printing. Content: This is/was my book (complete with book plate inside cover) used for research (a Billy the Kid theory) so it does have one or two dogearred page tips. Interesting book. Take the hot springs from northern Colorado down into New Mexico to about Albuquerque. Beware, some of the springs that are off the beaten track are nude springs! [1 copy available]
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DOWN THE SANTA FE TRAIL AND INTO MEXICO:
The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846 - 1847
edited by Stella M. Drumm. Foreword by Howard R. Lamar. B&W photos. Condition: Very gently pre-read 1982 Bison Press Trade Paperback, third printing. Tiny edgewear and 1 dog earred page tip. Content: In June 1846 Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen years old and a bride of less than eight months, set out with her husband, a vetran Santa Fe trader, on a trek from Independence through New Mexico and south to Chihuahua. Her journal describes the fifteen months moving from house to house and town to town. She became adept in Spanish and the lingo of the traders, and wrote down in detail the customs and appearances of the places she went. She gave birth to her first child during the journey and admitted, "This thing of marrying is not what it is cracked up to be." She died in childbirth at home in Missouri at the age of 26. [1 copy available]
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ETHNIC MEDICINE IN THE SOUTHWEST
edited by Edward H. Spicer. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1981 University of Arizona Trade Paperback, third printing. Light shelfwear hinge crease with light edgewear and some rubbings on hinges. Interior clean & tight. Content: This book explores traditions guiding the medical arts of Yaqui, Anglo, Black and Mexican American Communities and points out the relationship between alternative and scientific medicine. Beliefs prevail that illness may be punishment for sin, or caused by witchcraft or overwork. Treatment may include dreams, herbs, massage, or prayer. Contributors: Eleanor Bauwens, Margarita Artschwager Kay, Mary Elizabeth Shutler, and Loudell F. Snow. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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GLASS PLATES & WAGON RUTS: Images of the Southwest By Lisle Updike and William Penington
by James Sandos & Larry Burgess. B&W era photos. Condition: NEW 1999 University Press of Colorado hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), third printing. B&W era photos by Updike and Penington. Content: "This remarkable photographic collection and Clark's text offer a fascinating view into America's past and of the enduring Navajos. No one interested in Western History should miss it." - Tony Hillerman. But there are more tribal photos than just the Navajos. In the early years of this century, William Pennington and Lisle Updike roamed the Four Corners area of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona, photographing people and landscapes. They traveled on horseback, by narrow gauge railroad, horse-drawn wagon, or Model T Fords, sometimes working together from the studio they shared in Durango, sometimes working alone. They went to mining camps in the nearby rugged San Juan Mountains as well as to the Navajo, Jicarilla, Apache, Acoma, and Zuni Indian reservations. What they preserved in their photographs takes the viewer back to a vanished era, but exquisitely preserves a sense of both time and place. Now, for the first time, H. Jackson Clark has collected the entire corpus of Pennington and Updike's wonderful images in Glass Plates & Wagon Ruts. Taken together, these photographs--highly valued and eagerly sought by collectors--comprise a provocative visual record of the southwest that is of interest to anybody who loves this beautiful country and its colorful past. If you love Four Corners, you will love this book. [1 copy available]
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THE GREAT PIKES PEAK GOLD RUSH
by Robert L. Brown. B&W era photographs illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1985 Caxton Printers hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket). The DJ has small edgewear top spine with light shelfwear rubbings front DJ edges. Interior clean, tight, perfect. Content: Colorado's Pike Peak Gold Rush was an event of enormous social and cultural significance. Its effects reached far beyond the immediate area of the gold strikes, changing the basic economy and life style of an entire region. Ever since Lieutenant Zebulon Pike led an exploring party of twenty-two men up the Arkansas River in 1806, the 14,110 foot high mountain that he used as a landmark has been known as Pikes Peak. With the passing years the huge summit became the best known geographical feature of the region. When it was rumored that gold had been found near Cherry Creek, the mountain's name became synonymous with the wild westward rush that ensued in the spring of 1859. But in reality the goldfields were some 90 miles away to the northwest. Nevertheless, "Pikes Peak or Bust" became the most popular catch phrase among slogan conscious westbound Argonauts. Reviewer: ". . .solid, historical, thoroughly researched presentation and analysis of the historical events leading up to the mass dash for gold in Colorado territory, and the gold rush's legacy on Colorado and American society and culture, past and present. Black-and-white photographs and sketches illustrate this engrossing and highly recommended factual account of a key American experience whose impact on the culture, history, legends, and settlement of the West still that lingers on to this very day." [1 copy available]
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IMAGES AND CONVERSATIONS: Mexican Americans Recall a Southwestern Past
by Patricia Preciado Martin. B&W photos by the late Louis Carlos Bernal. Condition: NEW 1996 University of Arizona soft cover [10.1 x 8.6 x 0.3 (110 pages)], second printing. Remainder. Content: A beautiful memoir by Arizona Hispanic Americans who remember when barrio was not a bad word. These 13 first-person accounts of southern Arizona residents capture a spirit evocative of the Hispanic presence in the Southwest, while striking photographs reflect the grace and dignity of their lives. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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IN SEARCH OF THE OLD ONES: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest
by David Roberts. B&W photo section. Condition: NEW 1998 Touchstone Trade Paperback, second printing. Light tanning to page edges. Content: Six hundred years ago, the Anasazi, said to be the ancestors of the Hopi, Zuni and other Pueblo peoples, left their homes in the region known as the Four Corners, where Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona converge, and disappeared. They had inhabited the area for perhaps 5000 or more years. They left behind pots, weavings, tools, monuments, human remains and, above all, their astounding cliff "palaces," containing apartments of as many as 20 rooms each. Many of these are still viable but so fragile that, in the national park lands where most are located, they are closed to the public. Roberts has spent 20 years exploring the region, and he recounts the history of the discoveries, the appalling thefts of artifacts, the cave paintings and his own transcendent experiences in stumbling upon some vestige of this lost civilization. His awe at the region's beauty, with its sheer cliffs, canyons and mesas, and at the testaments to an unknown culture will be contagious for readers. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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IT HAPPENED IN COLORADO
by James Crutchfield. B&W illustrations by Lisa Harvey. Condition: UNREAD 1993 Globe Pequot Press Trade Paperback, 11th printing. Content: Fascinating stories about thirty-four events that helped make Colorado what it is today. Read about Kit Carson, silver miners, Native Americans, Jesse James, and many more, including little-known episodes that shaped Colorado's colorful history. [Being a former resident of Colorado, I wonder why the shooting of Bob Ford in Creede was eliminated - not an earth shaking event, but certainly of interest. It does cover Alfred Packer's cannibalism - and if you are ever in Lake City, CO, don't miss Alfred Packer Days - "Have a Friend for Lunch."] [1 copy available]
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MESSAGES ON STONE; Selections of Native Western Rock Art
by William Michael Stokes & William Lee Stokes. B&W drawings illustrate. Condition: Gently pre-read 1980 Sandstone Publishing (Utah) soft cover, no printing given. This was my book and there is some limited, pale highlighting on many pages. Content: From the thousands of objects and symbols the authors and others have observed, they have assembled a number of groups with meanings that are relatively clear. These groups are presented alphabetically (Apparal, Fun & Games, Hunting, etc.) with brief comments in the following pages. An excellent primer for petroglyphs, rock art, and/or pictographs. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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MURDER & MYSTERY IN NEW MEXICO
by Erna Fergusson. B&W photo section. Condition: UNREAD 1991 Lightning Tree Trade Paperback, no printing given. Original publish date c. 1941 - 8. Content: In this new edition nine riveting tales are presented with seldom-told facts that go far toward explaining the why of the incidents involved. Why did women go out of their way to defend Billy the Kid? Who killed the editor of the Socorro Sun just outside the church? How did the laws of land ownership and usage of three countries cause the shootout on the Estancia Plains? Why did the hanging of Black jack Ketchum put an end to train robbery in New Mexico? Fascinating mysteries and history. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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NINE YEARS IN THE SADDLE (SIGNED COPY)
by James V. Lee. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: Signed by Author inside front cover. NEW 2000 Salado Trade Paperback, fourth printing. Content: Reviewer: This book "is a story about the life and times of Dud Lee, how he survived during the depression, bootlegging and hunting mountain lions in Chiricahua Mountains in Southeast New Mexico, and his time punching cows. It's the author's way of telling a story of a man he'd longed to know, and did so after their airport meeting when his father was eighty-one years old. A truly enjoyable read -- a story that will make you laugh and at the same time tug at your heart strings. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE PENITENTES OF THE SOUTHWEST
by Marta Weigle. B&W etchings by Eli Levin. Condition: NEW 1970 Ancient City Press (Santa Fe) softcover (more of a pamphlet, really, stapled), 6th printing. Content: Study of the once powerful politcal & religious order of the Penitentes - known for their religious rigor and ferver. The Penitentes still exist in communities on New Mexico and Colorado. Fascinating history! [1 copy available]
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RIVER OF LOST DREAMS: Navigation on the Rio Grande
by Pat Kelley. B&W era photos, maps, and navigation charts illustrate. Condition: Gently pre-read 1986 Univ. of Nebraska Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), assumed first edition. DJ shows light shelfwear. Content: The history of real and proposed navigation on the most important river in the West, IMHO. From the headwaters just above South Fork, Colorado, to Mexico, the Rio Grande has been a huge geographical and economic influence on Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. Until his retirement in 1981, Pat Kelley was Assistant Director for Telecommunications, University Libraries and Learning Resource Center, Pan American University at Edinburg, Texas. [1 copy available]
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SHEPHERDESS OF ELK RIVER VALLEY
by Margaret Duncan Brown. Cover photo of Brown. Condition: UNREAD 1982 Golden Bell Press (Denver) trade paperback, second edition. Gift inscription inside front cover caused a pale hinge crease. Content: This is the story of a Texas lady who married in 1900 and moved with her husband to Cripple Creek, Colorado in 1915. Shortly thereafter, the Browns decided to try their hand at sheep ranching in far Northwestern Colorado (Routt County), but three years later, he husband died. She stayed on the ranch and enlarged and improved it - alone for about 47 years (she passed away in 1965). Her writings of lonliness, philosophy, and the beauty of Colorado are a wonderful insight into the personality of one woman and the history of Colorado. [1 copy available]
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SONGS OF MY HUNTER HEART: A Western Kinship
by Robert Franklin Gish. Cover art by Kenyon Thomas. Wonderful drawings illustrate but no credit is given. Condition: UNREAD 1994 University of New Mexico Press Trade Paperback, no printing given. Name in very small print top loose endpage. Content: This lyrical account of growing up in a family of hunters in mid-twentieth-century Albuquerque expresses a deep empathy for man's place in nature. Originally published in 1992, Robert Gish's unpretentious evocation of the mysteries of the hunt and of his deep affection for his male relatives shows us the paradoxes of men and guns: the hunter's respect for his prey and the hunt as a gateway between the sacred and the profane. This is also a matchless picture of life in Albuquerque's rural South Valley, where Bob Gish's father owned a gas station and his mother ran a cafe. [1 copy available]
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TOMBOY BRIDE
by Harriet Fish Backus. B&W era photographs illustrate. Condition: Good+ 1969 Pruett Publishing (Boulder) Trade PB with light disoloring top white part of cover, spine crease and tiny edgewear. Interior is clean. There is a slight weakness in the interior around page 168, but no break. Content: Around the turn of the twentieth century, Harriet Fish at the age of twenty hopped on a train in Oakland, California, and headed to Denver, Colorado, to begin a new life with her fiancŽe George Backus. After the young couple was married, they excitedly began their lives together. Their first journey took them above the town of Telluride near the Tomboy Mines at 11,800 feet, where they made their first home. Harriet Fish Backus writes about her life as assayer's wife and true pioneer of the West with heart-felt emotion and vivid detail. Share her amusing and often challenging experiences in the high San Juan Mountains; on the coast of northern British Columbia; in the heart of Idaho; and in Leadville, Colorado, the city in the clouds. Wonderfully detailed day-to-day life. [1 copy available]
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UNIQUE GHOST TOWNS AND MOUNTAIN SPOTS (In Colorado)
by Caroline Bancroft. Assisted by Daniel Peterson. Great B&W era photos plus maps for each area. Fold-our map. Condition: UNREAD c. 1984 Johnson Books soft cover. Tiny edgewear. Content: Forty-two of Colorado’s romance-packed high country towns have their stories told with old and new photos, history, and maps. [2 copies available]
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THE UNSINKABLE MRS. BROWN (Molly Brown)
by Carolinei Bancroft. Wonderful B&W era photographs illustrate. Condition: UNREAD c. 1963 Johnson Books Trade Paperback edition, no printing given. Content: A remarkably complete and detailed history of Mrs. Brown from birth to the Titanic to death - considering this is a slim volume. [1 copy available]
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WILDFLOWERS OF COLORADO (Colorado Littlebooks series)
by John Fielder. 34 beautiful color wildflower photos. Condition: UNREAD 1996 Westcliffe Publishers hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no printing given. Content: Ok, so this isn't history, but I wanted to place it where you would see it. Each of the 34 pictures is accompanied by a well-matched poem. The combination of good photography and verse makes this a very enjoyable work, exercising different areas of the reader's brain. A great gift item for somone who really loves Colorado. [1 copy available]
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