Four Corners History Books

ANASAZI PETROGLYPHS BOOKPLATES (Sample available)
art by Dmstudio. Condition: NEW package of 10 bookplates made by pacaritambo books. The peel-off label stock is heavier than most bookplate materials and is matte and not glossy. They are as perfect as possible, and we feel the subject matter is much different than you can get anywhere else. We can also personalize the bookplates if you like - email us with your name preference. 3.5" H x 3.5" W. Content: Petroglyphs can be found all over the Southwest from West Texas to California. Some petroglyps represent actual animals (deer, armadillos, etc.) while others are mysterious and seem to depict creatures from outer space (ok, some people think that). All are beautiful and worthy of being preserved wherever they are found. Any questions or for a sample, click here to email us.
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ARIZONA SUNRISE BOOKPLATES (Sample available)
art by W. Schloneger. Condition: NEW package of 10 bookplates made by pacaritambo books. The peel-off label stock is heavier than most bookplate materials and is matte and not glossy. They are as perfect as possible, and we feel the subject matter is much different than you can get anywhere else. We can also personalize the bookplates if you like - just email us with the name. 2.75" wide x 3.75" high. Content: Mesquite branch cross on a background of gold, yellow and turquoise with a yellow or gold insert for name. Any questions or to request a sample, click here to email us.
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COWBOY BOOTS BOOKPLATES (Sample available)
art by Geraktv. Condition: NEW package of 10 bookplates made by pacaritambo books. The peel-off label stock is heavier than most bookplate materials and is matte and not glossy. We can also personalize the bookplates if you like - email us the name you want on the bookplate. They are as perfect as possible, and we feel the subject matter is much different than you can get anywhere else. 2.5" H x 3.50" W. Content: Brown cowboy books with spurs highlight this "weathered" orange-brown background - you can also see a Stetson and a cow skull - all of which represent the American Old West. Any questions or for a sample, click here to email us.
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KOKOPELLI DANCING BOOKPLATES (Sample available)
art by V. Protsak. Condition: NEW package of 10 bookplates made by pacaritambo books. The peel-off label stock is heavier than most bookplate materials and is matte and not glossy. They are as perfect as possible, and we feel the subject matter is much different than you can get anywhere else. We can also personalize the bookplates if you like - email us with your name preference. 3.3" H x 3.4" W. Content: Kokopelli is most likely the most famous of all the ancient American petroglyphs. "Kokopelli is a fertility deity, usually depicted as a humpbacked flute player (often with a huge phallus and feathers or antenna-like protrusions on his head), who has been venerated by some Native American cultures in the Southwestern United States. Like most fertility deities, Kokopelli presides over both childbirth and agriculture. He is also a trickster god and represents the spirit of music." (Wikipedia) Any questions or for a sample, click here to email us.
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KOKOPELLI ON STONE BOOKPLATES (Sample available)
art by sdmix. Condition: NEW package of 10 bookplates made by pacaritambo books. The peel-off label stock is heavier than most bookplate materials and is matte and not glossy. They are as perfect as possible, and we feel the subject matter is much different than you can get anywhere else. We can also personalize the bookplates if you like - email us with your name preference. 3.5" H x 3.2" W. Content: Kokopelli is most likely the most famous of all the ancient American petroglyphs. Here he is depicted playing his flute on "sandstone." "Kokopelli is a fertility deity, usually depicted as a humpbacked flute player (often with a huge phallus and feathers or antenna-like protrusions on his head), who has been venerated by some Native American cultures in the Southwestern United States. Like most fertility deities, Kokopelli presides over both childbirth and agriculture. He is also a trickster god and represents the spirit of music." (Wikipedia) We can also personalize the bookplates if you like - use the drop-down menu to select - just email us with the name. Any questions or for a sample, click here to email us.
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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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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: Good+, 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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THE CLIFF DWELLERS OF THE MESA VERDE
by G. Nordenskiold. B&W photos plus the Author's era photos and original sketches of landscape, dwellings, and pottery. Condition: UNREAD 1990 Mesa Verde Museum Assn. huge soft cover, no printing given. Tiny edge wear to front cover fore edge. Content: Originally published in 1893 in Sweden, this book is an archaeological jewel if you are interested in the ancient Anasazi. Text and drawings are detailed. Excellent! Questions encouraged. [1 copy available]
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COLORADO GHOST TOWNS AND MINING TOWNS
by Sandra Dallas. B&W era photos plus B&W "now" photos by Kendal Atchison. Condition: While this book may look and feel "new," it is a gently pre-read (this was my research book) 1990 Univ. of Oklahoma Press large (in every way) soft cover, 4th printing. There is some light edge wear and a few of my underlinings or notes. I was only interested in a few of the towns, so the notes are few and far between. Content: Reviewer: "This is probably the best book I've ever found on the subject of Colorado's amazing list of ghost towns. From common ghost towns to scenic hidden treasures, this book provides a detailed history of each, including photos whenever possible. I purchased the book planning to use it as a supplement to my off-road ghost town trip a few months back. I also purchased a book that detailed the roads and trails I would need to get to some of these places, but this book gives you the reason to go. Some of the stories in it are sad, like mentions of "Stillborn Alley" in Cripple Creek. Some are fun, like the history of Idaho Springs, but all are entertaining and interesting. The author does an excellent job of not just recounting the history, but reveling it in such a way that you feel you can understand why people chose to live in some of these desolate locales. I would highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in learning abaout "ghost towns" or looking for a book they could pick up at any time and spend 10 minutes or two hours enjoying." Of all the "ghost town" books on Colorado, this is the standard, IMHO. [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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COYOTE'S CANYON
by Terry Tempest Williams. Stunning color photos by John Telford. Condition: NEW c. 2000 Gibbs-Smith soft cover, fourth printing. Content: "These things are real: desert, rocks, shelter, legend" (Judith Fryer). Coyote's Canyon evokes the beauty and mystery of southern Utah's desert canyons--home to Navajo and to the Anasazi who came before, and spiritual homeland to the Coyote Clan, thousands of individuals who draw nourishment from this land. This collaboration between photographer John Telford and writer Terry Tempest Williams is an intimate meditation on one of the earth's most extraordinary landscapes. Telford's spectacular color photographs of the region's canyons, mesas, hidden waterways, arches, Anasazi cliff dwellings, and desert vistas are rich with the reflected ligh that elevates rock into sculpture. Tempest Williams' stories celebrate the legend and ritual surrounding this sacred place, creating a compelling new mythology for desert lovers--persons quietly subversive in the name of the land. Taken together, these photographs and words are an invitation, an initiation into the desert's sanctuary of secrets-- Coyote's Canyon. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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DANGEROUS DAN TUCKER: New Mexico's Deadly Lawman
by Bob Alexander. And, wow! Intro by Leon Metz. B&W era photo section. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 2001 High-Lonesome Trade Paperback, first printing. Name on loose end page with a note on the back inside cover. Bought the book; never read it. Content: Deputy Sheriff, Town Marshall, Deputy U.S. Marshall, Train Agent, Livestock Inspector, Dan Tucker was the quintessential lawman during the violent frontier period of southwest New Mexico. By his own deadpan account, he was "obliged to kill eight men" in Grant County alone -- not counting four other outlaws he personally dropped from the scaffold. Disinclined by nature to back down from anyone, Tucker was involved in some one dozen shooting scrapes, was shot four times, and he arrested Russian Bill and Sandy King. Yet "Dangerous Dan Tucker" is more than a gunman's story. Author Bob Alexander skillfully weaves in Tucker's nervy confrontations with criminals, with the quirky, everyday details of an underpaid lawman living on the edge. Prodigiously researched and documented, Alexander presents a significant Western character heretofore lost to history. His Dan Tucker is no Hollywood hero, but he is extremely competent and supremely dangerous -- if you're an outlaw. Heavily documented. Questions welcome. [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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ENEMY ANCESTORS: The Anasazi World with a Guide to Sites
by Gary Matlock. Beautiful color photos by Scott Warren. Condition: NEW 1991 Northland large soft cover, second printing. Beautiful production values - color photos - heavy slick paper stock. Content: Reviewer: "Anasazi 101. This is a traveler's guide as well as a "textbook." You don't have to know a lot about American Indian culture, archaeology, or history to enjoy and learn from this crash-course about the different pre-European inhabitants of the Four Corners area of the Southwestern United States. Gary Matlock leads us through the stories of these different peoples as pieced together from discoveries in their mysteriously abandoned architecture, cities, pottery, roads, canals, and items found in their trash heaps. Beautiful photographs by Scott Warren flesh out the text by illustrating examples of the art, structures, and landscapes. A guide at the end of the book lists agencies to contact before going to visit, what to expect, and tips on the manner of approach." Still relevant. [1 copy available]
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EXPLORING THE COLORADO PLATEAU (Plateau Magazine Vol. 62, # 3)
by Andrew Wallace & Diana Clark Lubick. Wonderful B&W era photos plus color photos and art reproductions. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1991 Museum of Northern Arizona "Plateau" magazine, Vol. 62, # 3. Very small "scrape" top front cover edge. Interior clean & tight. Content: This magazine volume covers everything from the geology of the area to a map of the past & present archaeological sites in the area. Very informative - up to 1991, that is. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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FOREIGNERS IN THEIR NATIVE LAND: Historical Roots of the Mexican Americans
edited by David J. Weber. B&W photos & illustrations. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1973 Univ. of New Mexico Press Trade Paperback, first edition. Problems: light edge wear with a shelf wear crease back cover and 3 very small remainder marks on fore edges. Content: Most recent writing about Mexican Americans deals only with the twentieth century. This book provides the much-needed historical perspective that is essential for a full understanding of the present. Dozens of selections from firsthand accounts, introduced by the editor's knowledgeable essays capture the flavor and mood of the Mexican American experience in the Southwest from the time the first pioneers came north from Mexico. The first edition was selected as a Choice "Outstanding Academic Book of the Year." [1 copy available]
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GHOSTS OF THE EASTERN SAN JUANS:: A Guide to the Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of the Eastern San Juan Mountains, Colorado
written & photographed by John K. Aldrich. Full color photos. 16 x 20 pull-out map included. Condition: NEW 1987 Centennial soft cover (stapled wraps), first printing. Content: Just as advertised in the title: descriptions, photos, and history of the old mining camps in my area - Del Norte (not a ghost town now), Creede, Bachelor, etc. . Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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GHOSTS OF THE WESTERN SAN JUANS, VOLUME 1: A Guide to the Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Ouray, San Juan and Hinsdale Counties, Colorado
written & photographed by John K. Aldrich. Full color photos. 16 x 20 pull-out map included. Condition: NEW 1988 Centennial soft cover (stapled wraps), first printing. Content: Just as advertised in the title: descriptions, photos, and history of the old mining camps in 3 Colorado counties. My favorite: Capitol City in Hinsdale County - you can still see the remains of the old "State Capital" built there on spec. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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GILPIN COUNTY GOLD: Peter McFarlane, 1848-1929, Mining Entrepreneur in Central City, Colorado
by H. William Axford. Loaded with B&W era photos, maps, and art reproductions. Decorated end pages show a map of Central City area. Condition: UNREAD 1976 Sage Books hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. Problem: I own 3 of these books, bought brand new, and all 3 have price-clipped DJ's. Content: Gilpin County, Colorado during the 1860's was called "the richest square mile on earth." Its gold drew the mining boom crowd we celebrate both in truth and in legend: the rowdy prospectors, the gamblers, the bawdy house girls, the con men. Central City was the biggest mining town in the "Little Kingdom of Gilpin" - in all of Colorado in facat - but it was also one of the most cultured and least lawless. This book tells the story of mining in a boom town through the life of one it its staunch citizens. Peter McFarlane was a carpenter, mining equipment distributor, inventory, lodge member, mayor and family man - and the preserver of the famous Central City Opera House. Great history! [1 copy available]
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GUIDE TO THE COLORADO GHOST TOWNS AND MINING CAMPS
by Perry Eberhart. B&W photos (most era) illustrate. Condition: Very good 1992 Swallow Press large Trade Paperback, fourth revised edition, 6th printing. This was my "research" book and I stupidly did some small amount of highlighting and margin notes up to page 80 when I evidently abandoned the book. Content: Reviewer: "If there's a better book on the ghost towns and mining camps of Colorado, I don't know about it. Eberhart's book is massive (almost 500 pages), detailed, and informative. It covers all the mountainous regions of the state where gold was mined by sections; all the towns/camps in each section are listed and described (many in great detail), and fairly precise sketch maps locating all the sites are included. The book also contains many excellent photographs. This is the 4th edition, last updated in 1969; a new edition would be worth considering since much of what is described as being visible to the visitor at many sites may no longer be there (thanks to fires, severe weather, vandalism, etc.); a lot can change in 35 years. But in terms of locating ghost towns and camps and learning what they were all about, this book can't be beat. It's an excellent guide." It's my favorite, too. [1 copy available]
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THE HEROIC TRIAD: Essays in the Social Energies of Three Southwestern Cultures
by Paul Horgan. Intro by William deBuys. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1994 UNM Press Trade Paperback, no printing given. Problem: Front cover shows shelf wear with smudges which may or may not come off (still working on them). Interior clean & tight. Unfortunately no photos or graphics. Content: This book is "drawn" from Horgan's Pulitzer Prize winner, Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History (1970). Horgan has not tried to write three histories; rather he has attempted to re-create three civilizations, three spirits which have powered three different societies. He has told of their beliefs, ideals, government, family patterns, material things, crafts and skills, and their arts and trades. [1 copy available]
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HUAJATOLLA; Southern Colorado's Ancient Legends of the Land
written and illustrated by Kristen F. Naeyaert. B&W illustrations for coloring. Condition: NEW 2005 Earthwing (La Veta, Co) soft cover, no printing given. Content: Huajatolla is a Comanche word meaning "Breasts of the Earth" (Spanish Peaks). The mountain chain backing up to the Juajatolla is known as the Sangre de Christo which extend into Mexico. The wonderful symbolic drawings, along with the intriguing remnants of ancient stories, pull together a provocative interpretation of the Huajatolla legends. Includes legends from the Native American cultures to the Olmecs, Aztecs and Mayas to the gold seekers. Fascinating and very worthwhile book. Questions welcome. [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 BEHALF OF THE LIGHT: The Dominguez and Escalante Expedition of 1776
by Joseph Cerquone. B&W era photos plus color photos and maps. Condition: UNREAD 1976 Dominguez & Escalante Expedition Bicentennial, Inc. soft cover (stapled wraps), no printing given. Tiny edge wear. Content: This is a history text and visual history of the 1776 expedition of two priests who were to do the business of the church while looking for the best overland route from Santa Fe to Monterrey, California. WEll done! Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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INDIAN VILLAGES OF THE SOUTHWEST: A Practical Guide to the Pueblo Indian Villages of New Mexico and Arizona
by Buddy Mays. B&W maps & photos (most by the Author) illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1986 Chronicle Books soft cover, 4th printing. Light edge wear. Content: Taos, Cochiti, Tesuque, Nambe, Oraibi, Picuris, Shipaulovi, Zia - these are the present-day homes of the "Children of the Ancients," living descendants of the great city builders of the prehistoric Southwest. Their sxmall villages, scattered along the river courses and across the mesa tops of New Mexico and Arizona, are bastions of North America's endemic Indian culture. Surrounded by foreign cultures for several centuries, these determined villagers have borrowed useful aspects of Anglo and Hispanic culture while rigidly maintaning theier own traditions. The Author gives his readers a brief history of these remarkable people, outlines the attractions and special restrictions of each village, lists the dates of feast days and other festivals, and suggests the best values in village arts and crafts. While this book is an "older" book, most of what has changed since publication is that many of these "villages" now have casinos. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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INDIANS OF THE MESA VERDE
by Don Watson. Great B&W photos of Mesa Verde and its artifacts. Condition: UNREAD c. 1990s Mesa Verde Museum Assn. Trade Paperback, no edition or printing given. Content: Reviewer: "gives the reader an excellent view into the world of these Ancient Americans and their way of life in their cliff dwellings. Little is sugar-coated to be politically-correct. The world of these Indians is accounted for by showing different chores through the seasons- from farming in the warmer months to the old and arthritis-ridden soaking up the feeble heat of the sun in the winters of southwestern Colorado. Don Watson's book is worth having if you want to keep in mind that a whole culture once existed at that almost-mystical place before it had to endure the scourge of being a National Treasure subject to the ravages of public use and wear." There are later printings of this book, but not any new editions. 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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A LADY'S LIFE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
by Isabella L. Bird. Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin. B&W maps and era illustrations. Condition: UNREAD c. 2000 University of Oklahoma Press soft cover, 20th printing. Content: In 1854, at the age of twenty-two, Isabella Bird left England and began traveling as a cure for her ill health. Over the years she explored Asia, the Sandwich Islands, Hawaii, and both the Eastern and Western United States. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains contains letters written to her sister during her six-month journey through the Colorado Rockies in 1873. Traveling alone, usually on horseback, often with no clear idea of where she will spend the night in what is mostly uninhabited wilderness, she covers over a thousand miles, most of it during the winter months. A well-educated woman who had known a comfortable life, she thinks nothing of herding cattle at a hard gallop, falling through ice, getting lost in snowstorms, and living in a cabin where the temperatures are well below zero and her ink freezes even as she writes. She befriends desperados and climbs 14,000 foot mountains, ready for any adventure that allows her to see the unparalleled beauty of nature. Her rare complaints have more to do with having to ride side-saddle while in town than with the conditions she faces. An awe-inspiring woman, she is also a talented writer who brings to life Colorado of more than one hundred years ago, when today's big cities were only a small collection of frame houses, and while and beautiful areas were still largely untouched. If you love Colorado, you'll want to read this book! [1 copy available]
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LAMY OF SANTA FE: His Life and Times (A Biography)
by Paul Horgan. B&W era photo section. Decorated end pages - map of Lamy's travels in America. Condition: Gently pre-read to about page 14, 1976 Farrar, Straus "fat" hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), third printing. Price-clipped DJ with edge wear to DJ edges. Interior clean. Content: Most people know Bishop Lamy from Willa Cather's Death Comes To the Archbishop. Reviewer: "If there is proof that religion is cultural Paul Horgan demonstrates it in this work which is more than a single biography, but two. Lamy's initial dilemma, besides getting to his Santa Fe assignment, was to overcome the politics of Mexican Catholicism, and bend its will to his own. It was not the good Church defeating evil so much as it was Lamy's determination to arrange things in their proper order while at the same time creating an infrastructure to benefit his parishioners. His monument is the cathedral at Santa Fe in front of which is a stature to his memory as a man beloved by all. Still, Lamy shows a natural reluctance to relinquish habitual authority after retirement. The Archbishop was a man, after all, but a man with a calling he was determined to fulfill. Incidentally, when a character from one book shows up in another unrelated work (Lamy's eventual successor, in Tucson), 'On the Border With Crook,' it lends co-incident authenticity to both." A fascinating man. [1 copy available]
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LIVING SHRINES: Home Altars of New Mexico
by Marie Romero Cash. Color photos by Siegfried Halus. Condition: NEW 1998 Museum of New Mexico soft cover, first printing. Light edge wear. Content: The tradition of home shrines first began evolving in the American Southwest during the Mexican colonial period, when priests often traveled to homes to perform mass, novenas, baptisms, and marriages, a practice that continues today. This colorful book features the personal altars of mostly Hispanic families living in the towns and villages of northern New Mexico. Most are devoutly Catholic, and although Roman Catholic dogma does not officially recognize home shrines, the altar tradition for most Hispanos is a sign of being "Catholic from the heart." Their private altars allow for devotion in daily life, a practice embraced by those of all beliefs who desire personal sacred places to meditate, pray, or reflect. These portraits will serve as an inspiration for even the least devout among us desiring more spirituality in our lives. Internationally renowned photographer Siegfried Halus renders the shrines in all their colorful splendor, arranges in living rooms and bedrooms, mounted on dressers, fireplace mantels, refrigerators and television sets, and in grotto structures placed in yards and on roadsides. The indoor altars are laid out with rosaries, prayer books, candles, holy water, and plaster statues of religious figures alongside family photographs, mementos, and special written requests. The altars vary from the unpretentious to elaborate arrangements with dried or fresh flowers and decorated with traditional Hispanic folk art such as santos and tinwork. Lucy R. Lippard explores the place of personal shrines in contemporary culture, and Marie Romero Cash puts into historical context the use of home altars by Nuevo Mexicanos. Both essays draw from interviews with owners and residents of the more than eighty home altars featured. Questions welcome. [1 copy availaable]
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LOS OJOS DEL TEJEDOR - THE EYES OF THE WEAVER - Plus - CHIMAYO VALLEY TRADITIONS (2 for 1)
by Christina Ortega. Wonderful color illustrations by Patricio Garcia. "Chimayo Valley Traditions" is illustrated with B&W photos and drawings. Condition: NEW c. 2000 Clear Light large soft cover, second printing. Tiny edge wear. Content: This is an autobiographical work. Cristina Ortega shares with children her memories of visits with her grandfather who taught her how to weave when she was ten years old. Chimayo is a northern New Mexico village with roots in early Spanish Colonial times. It has long been famous for its unique Chimayo weavings and for an old adobe Catholic Chapel known as El Sancturio. Reviewer: "is a wonderful regional story based on the author's youth. She is a descendent of the Ortega family of Chimayo. The Ortega family has been weaving in the small, rural community of Chimayo for more than eight generations and the quality of their rugs and blankets is well known. They own a store in Chimayo and in several other locations where their Hispanic style rugs and blankets are sold in many sizes. Chimayo is a mountain community north of Santa Fe. This book beautifully describes Hispanic traditions and the importance of teaching the children these skills. Ten year old Cristina loves going to her grandparents' house, but she is particularly nervous about this trip. She knows that she is going to spend a week there to learn how to weave and is filled with anxiety over weaving as well as her grandfather, and she doesn't speak Spanish as well as she'd like. Her mother suggests that her cousin, who speaks better Spanish, should join her and their grandparents, and that makes Cristina feel more confident about her visit. This delightful book moves beyond learning to weave on the loom. Cristina weaves in her own memories of Hispanic culture through other activities during this visit. Spanish words and phrases are sprinkled as regional seasoning, adding depth to the flavor of her story. A glossary of these words is found at the back to help non-Spanish speakers navigate their way through this book. Phrases are translated in the text of the book. In addition to stumbling with her grandfather's Spanish, she also picks regional vegetables from the garden and cooks traditional New Mexican foods, which also contributes to the fullness of the text." The book Chimayo Valley Traditions tells the history of the village of Chimayo and is more for adults. [1 copy available]
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MAJESTIC JOURNEY; Coronado's Inland Empire
by Stewart L. Udall. Color photo section with B&W current and era photos and maps. Condition: NEW 1995 Museum of New Mexico Press large soft cover, first printing. Content: This is a wonderful book - not only for the history but the photos and maps! The significance of the journeys of Francisco Vsquez de Coronado in what is now the American Southwest is still too often overlooked or undervalued by students of American and world history. Former U.S. congressman and Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall and award-winning photographer Jerry Jacka set out to retrace the steps of this great explorer and redress this skewed historical view. The book carefully chronicles the great explorer's seminal travels across these lands and among the native peoples and captures anew the wonder with which this European party must have regarded all they saw. Originally published in 1987 by Doubleday as To the Inland Empire, the book is now packaged and priced for a wider general readership, includes a new selection of photographs, maps, and a new preface by the author. [2 copies 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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MYSTERIES & MIRACLES OF ARIZONA: Guide Book to the Genuinely Bizarre in the Grand Canyon State
by Jack Kutz. Cover art and interior B&W illustrations by Mary Schold Robert. Condition: UNREAD 1992 Rhombus Trade Paperback, first edition. Tiny edge wear witn small tag removal mark top front cover corner. Content: This book reviews several of the legends and lore of Arizona. Most of the chapters deal with supernatural tales such as ghostly apparitions and otherworldly encounters. One chapter covers the Travis Walton UFO abduction story. Walton's story was dramatized in the movie "Fire in the Sky." Another chapter is about the ancient Roman artifacts that were supposedly found buried near Tucson. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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MYSTERIES & MIRACLES OF NEW MEXICO: Guide Book to the Genuinely Bizarre in the Land of Enchantment
by Jack Kutz. Cover art and interior B&W illustrations by Mary Schold Robert. Condition: UNREAD 1990 Rhombus (Corrales) Trade Paperback, second printing. Very light edge wear with a very strange, pale "lighter-than-black" sport on the back cover - tag removal mark? Interior perfect. Content: Reviewer: "This is a terrific little book on some of the more bizarre people, places, occurrences in New Mexico. Of course there is a chapter devoted to Roswell (actually there are 3 UFO related chapters including the chapter on cattle mutilations). Then there are the stories about stashed gold and money, Native American women warriors, mystery inscriptions on rocks, spirit world windows (worthy of Keel himself), New Mexican witches, and the mystery surrounding Billy the Kid. It's a smallish book (217 pages) and would be highly suited for an "in-flight" read the next time you fly the friendly skies. It definitely makes you want to visit all the places mentioned within the book. Every one of its chapters addresses a specific topic or story, and at the end of every chapter the book gives directions to whatever it was talking about, and also recommends other sources for further reading on the same subject. Also 2 chapters on Billy the Kid. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE MYTHICAL PUEBLO RIGHTS DOCTRINE: Water Administration in Hispanic New Mexico
by Daniel Tyler. Introduction by Iris H. W. Engstrand. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1990 Texas Western Press soft cover, no printing given. Content: In 1958 case heard by the Supreme Court of New Mexico held that as a Spanish or Mexican town grew, it was entitled to take the water it needed to satisfy its expansion. Court cases in California have affirmed this "pueblo rights doctrime." Tyler finds that this doctrine was not recognized by either the Spaniards or the Mexicans in the way it has been defined in US courts. He carefully traces historic documents relating to water rights and concludes that the pueblo rights doctrine never existed in Hispanic New Mexico." 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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ON THE TRAIL OF SPIDER WOMAN: Petroglyphs, Pictographs, and Myths of the Southwest)
by Carol Patterson-Rudolph. Great, beautiful color photos with some B&W photos and drawings. Condition: NEW 1998 Ancient City Press Trade paperback, first printing. Content: This book weaves together the stories of tiny, elusive Spider Woman as she is mythologized by the Keresan Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo people. Each tribe sees this mythic figure differently, yet there is no need to depict her in a realistic form. Instead she is described in symbols that reflect her attributes. She is a metaphor for somethinh small or invisible yet very powerful. She represents creativity, spirit, old agem and wisdom. Following the trail of Spider Woman means comparing the myths and stories surrounding her with images portrayed at petroglyph sites. Though the people who made the petroglyphs have since migrated to new lands, her trail stretches back into the canyons of Utah where centuries ago people lived and engraved her story on the rocks for future generations to read. The petroglyphs and pictographs are a veil between the observer and other, transcendental realms. They are a portal through which to enter the world of Spider Woman. Detailed & excellent! [2 copies available]
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OUR SAINTS AMONG US: 400 Years of New Mexican Devotional Art
by Barbe Awalt & Paul Rhetts. Essays by Thomas Steele, S.J. & Charles M. Carrillo. Color photos and perhaps some B&W photos. Condition: NEW (Still shrink-wrapped) 1998 LPD soft cover, since the book is shrink-wrapped, I don't know what printing. Content: This celebration of the art of Catholic Hispanic New Mexico accompanies a traveling exhibition that commemorates the 400th anniversary of Spanish influence in the Southwest. In addition to representing the work of 110 artists, the book includes lists of Hispanic settlements in New Mexico, feast days, U.S. collections of New Mexican art, saints in New Mexico, and Hispanic churches in New Mexico, along with a bibliography on New Mexican santos. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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PEOPLE OF THE MESA VERDE COUNTRY: An Archaeological Remembrance
by Ian M. Thompson. Color maps of the area form the end pages. B&W photos of artifacats with B&W drawings and decorations by Richard Cornelius. Condition: NEW 2002 Crow Canyon-EarthTales Press soft cover, no printing given. Content: Author Ian Thompson lived virtually all his life in a single place- the Four Corners region. For five decades he explored, studied and wrote about its past and present inhabitants and their relationship to the landscape. When he died in 1998 he left behind this unfinished project. Ian had wanted to synthesize for general readers what the 20th century told us about this very special place. This book cannot be what he hoped to complete before his death, but it is a facsimile of what he had imagined and began the previous year. Edited and published posthumously, People of the Mesa Verde Country is a grateful memorial to Ian Thompson and an opportunity to enjoy the reflections of a man who understood, better than most, why the past matters as profoundly as it does. Thompson was the executive director of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center from 1987 to 1990 and the director of research from 1995 to 1997. BTW, Crow Canyon (in beautiful downtown Cortez, Co.) has one-day digs you can experience. Great fun and educational. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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PEOPLE OF THE RED EARTH: American Indians of Colorado
by Sally Crum. Faith DeLong cover illustration. B&W era photos, maps, and drawings plus petroglyphs illustrate. Condition: NEW 1996 Ancient City Press (Santa Fe) lare soft cover, first printing. Content: For at least 12,000 years, Native Americans laid claim to the land that, with the coming of the Europeans, came to be called Colorado. From paleolithic hunters to contemporary Arapahoe, Ute, and Shoshone peoples, Native Americans have adapted again and again to the demands of this unpredictable land, its climate and its invaders. Their history and tenacity are revealed in Colorado archaeologist Sally Crum's People Of The Red Earth. Lively, accessible, authoritative, and exceptionally well written for the non-specialist general reader, People Of The Red Earth explains how the earliest agriculturists kept their fields green despite long droughts, how hunters knapped tools and points so precise they can barely be duplicated, and how features announced a warrior's reputation. Each culture (from the Anasazi to the Arapahoes) has its own medicinal herbs, shaman's powers, women's dress styles, children's games, lovesongs, battles and truces. Crum's research and archaeological experience brings all this rich heritage to life again. Crum also shows how the story of Colorado's earliest inhabitants continues to be rewritten through new techniques in excavation, lab research, and dating tests. Organized by era and region, People Of The Red Earth is also a comprehensive guide to recommended archaeological sites, museums, and cultural centers. Crum's informative text is further enhanced by numerous maps, drawings and historic photographs. A splendid work of exemplary scholarship. [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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PETROGLYPHS: Ancient Language / Sacred Art
by Sabra Moore. Wonderful, detailed 2-tone drawings by the Author. Condition: NEW 2003 Clear Light hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), second printing. Content: Though not intended as a survey (the subject matter is too broad), this book provides a glimpse of the beautiful artwork created by Native Americans through the centuries with 106 excellent renderings of petroglyphs and pictographs taken from such diverse media as rocks and shells. Carefully drawn by Moore, a professional artist, the pictures provide more detail than is often conveyed by photographs. Images from across the United States are subdivided by region. Also included are regional listings of sites where tourists can view some of the originals, though names and phone numbers of places to contact for information are unfortunately not included. The pictures are accompanied by descriptive text that helps put the artwork in context both historically and artistically. Reviewer: "Sabra Moore's book, in which texts and drawings mingle harmoniously, has given a well-informed and concise overview of the North American rock art. In addition, I think that having the viewpoint from an artist's eye is useful to understand beyond the intellect the possible meanings and purpose of this "ancient language/sacred art" of the petroglyphs. Perhaps, after reading this text-art book, one can visit rock art sites again in a different way, not just seeing the carved boulders any more, but looking at and perusing them instead." Rock Art sites: Southwest (of course), the Southeast, California, Great Plains, Great Lakes, Northwest-Arctic, with Bibliography. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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PETRIFIED FOREST: The Story Behind the Scenery
by Sidney Ash & David May. Beautiful color photos of the Park plus B&W drawings of the flora. Condition: Gently pre-read 1969 edition (this printing c. 1990), Petrified Forest Museum Assn. soft cover (stapled wraps), no printing given. No major problems, just pre-read. Content: This book details the geological forces that formed the Petrified Forest, the petroglyphs, flora, and man's involvement in the Park. The book is dedicated to ". . . all who find Nature not an adversary to conquer and destroy, but a storehouse of infinite knowledge and experience linking man to all things past and present." [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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ROADSIDE GEOLOGY OF ARIZONA
by halka Chronic. B&Wphotos, "color" maps, and drawings illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1989 Mountain Press Trade Paperback, sixth printing. Tiny edge wear. Content: One of the most popular geology and travel series ever. Reviewer: "The first chapter or two of all these books is a Geology 101 of the State -- including terms, an historical timeline, and discussion of the latest geological theories that have any bearing at all on the landforms you will see from your car or truck as you drive across the state. Then comes the good part -- a series of chapters with exciting names like "Route 60; Globe to Mesa". As you drive, your companion reads the book, keyed to mile-markers, freeway exit ramps, small towns, etc. Every rill, dike, escarpment -- even the various colored rocks you see as you ride through the roadcuts on the freeway -- are explained. Follow the highways in the book, and you're an expert on Arizona geology. [1 copy available]
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ROCK ART OF THE WESTERN CANYONS
edited by Jane Day, et al. B&W drawings, photos, and art. Condition: UNREAD 1989 Denver Museum of Natural History - Colorado Archaeological Society Trade Paperback, no printing given. Light edge wear with a very short shelf wear "scratch" top front cover. Interior clean & very tight. Content: In recent years anthropologists, art historians and informed laymen have become increasingly interested in the rock art of the western US. In response to this interest a symposium was held at the Denver Museum ofo Natural History in April of 1987 to addres some of the recent research in this fascinating field. The enthusiastic response of both the participants and audience led to the publication of the papers presented in this volume. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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SACRED IMAGES: A Vision of Native American Rock Art
by Leslie Kelen and David Sucec. Foreword by N. Scott Momaday. Spectacular color photos by Craig Law, John Telford, Tomm Till, and Philip Hyde. Condition: UNREAD 2006 Gibbs-Smith (Utah) very large soft cover, 4th printing. Content: Reviewer: "No one really knows what was in the minds of the people who made the prolific, and mysterious rock art of the southwest. Therefore most reputable books on rock art simply describe in dry archeological detail the design elements and locations of the various panels. Leslie Kelen is more of an oral-historian than a scientist. He simply recorded the words and stories the modern Native Americans tell about the art in their area. He combined this with a fine, scientifically accurate introductory essay on ancient cultures, and spectacular photography. The result is a real experience of Canyon Country Rock Art. The book captures the beautiful inscrutability of the rock art and some of the best stories commonly told about it. Many of the local Native Americans are both steeped in their native heritage, and well aware of the scientific community's analysis. This is not a book for scientists. It is a book for people fascinated with the southwest and who wish to add new colors and possibilities to their ruminations on rock art. This is a book for visitors to the southwest who want to see more deeply into the landscape they are traveling through. I have been a guide in the southwest canyon country since 1996, and this is the number one rock art book I recommend to clients." Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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SCENES OF THE PLATEAU LANDS AND HOW THEY CAME TO BE
by Wm. Lee Stokes. Great B&W drawings and maps. Condition: UNREAD 1983 Starstone sot cover (stapled wraps), 10th printing. Small, pale tag removal mark top front cover corner. Content: The Author is a Professor of Geology at the university of Utah. HIs B&W drawings and a readable text explain the forces of geology that formed the beautiful Four Corners area. Perfect for homeschooling. [1 copy available]
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THE SERPENT AND THE SACRED FIRE: Fertility Images in Southwest Rock Art
by Dennis Slifer. I assume there are B&W photos and drawings. See below. Condition: NEW (shrink-wrapped) 2000 Museum of New Mexico Press soft cover, since the book is shrink-wrapped I can't tell the printing number - or illustrations. Content: The Southwest holds a treasure trove of prehistoric rock art, the fascinating images of petroglyphs and pictographs spanning thousands of years of Indian culture. Fertility has been identified as one of the most obvious and persistent themes in rock art, the record resplendent with symbols of birth, death, and procreation. Three-time rock art author Dennis Slifer takes a wide and deep look at symbols of fertility and fecundity, meticulously documenting drawings made by prehistoric cultures and the historical tribes of today's greater Southwest, and comparing the symbols with those fertility symbols found in rock art sites around the world. Questions welcome. [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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THE SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN DETOUR: The Story of the Fred Harvey/Santa Fe Railway Experiment in 'Detourism' [SIGNED BY AUTHOR]
by D. H. Thomas (Diane Thomas). Loaded - really! - with B&W era photos and advertisements. Condition: SIGNED by Author on the loose end page. UNREAD, but not perfect, 1978 Hunter Press (Phoenix) hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition. Problem: teh DJ has chips and small "repaired" tears. The book has tiny shelf wear bottom corner tips. Interior perfect. Content: This book is a factual account of an adventure in tourism that reads like fiction. Designed by the Harvey Organization and the Santa Fe Railway to entice transcontinental travelers to linger awhile in an ancient yet brand new world, they opened the Southwest ot only to tourists in quest of a "different" vacation, but to those who would become permanent residents as they traded crowded Eastern cities for the slower-paced charm of the American Southwest. An experiment in roughing it first class, the Indian Detours would present the American Southwest to inquisitive Europeans, jaded American millionaires, students and average vacationers. Never again would such a great adventure be made so accessible in this country. Fascinating!!! [1 copy available]
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THE STAR LAKE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT: Anthropology of a Headwaters Area of Chaco Wash, New Mexico
edited by Walter K. Wait and Ben A. Nelson. B&W charts, maps, and drawings illustrate. Condition: PLEASE READ. UNREAD 1983 So. Illinois Univ. Press hardcover (no DJ issued), no printing given. Problem: shelf wear in the form of pale rubbings (sliding in and out of shelf next to another book). Interior perfect. Content: This book details the findings of the project funded by Peabody Coal before beginning strip mining in NW New Mexico. The Chaco Wash is an arroyo (a periodic stream) cutting through Chaco Canyon, which is located in northwestern New Mexico on the Colorado Plateau. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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STORIES AND STONE: Writing the Ancestral Pueblo Homeland
edited by Reuben Ellis. Detailed maps and B&W drawings illustrate. Mesa Verde cover photo by David Muench. Condition: NEW 2006 Univ. of Arizona Press Trade Paperback, second printing. Slight lift to the front cover fore edge. Content: From timeless writings to contemporary classics, the contributors weave an unforgettable mosaic of a people and a landscape that continues to inspire wanderers and readers even after four centuries. Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Mesa Verde, Hovenweep . . . For many, such historic places evoke images of stone ruins, cliff dwellings, pot shards, and petroglyphs. For others, they recall ancestry. Remnants of the American Southwest's ancestral Puebloan peoples (sometimes known as Anasazi) have mystified and tantalized explorers, settlers, archaeologists, artists, and other visitors for centuries. And for a select group of writers, these ancient inhabitants have been a profound source of inspiration. Collected here are more than fifty selections from a striking body of literature about the prehistoric Southwest: essays, stories, travelers' reports, and poems spanning more than four centuries of visitation. They include timeless writings such as John Wesley Powell's The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Tributaries and Frank Hamilton Cushing's "Life at Zuni," plus contemporary classics ranging from Colin Fletcher's The Man Who Walked Through Time to Wallace Stegner's Beyond the Hundredth Meridian to Edward Abbey's "The Great American Desert." Reuben Ellis's introduction brings contemporary insight and continuity to the collection, and a section on "reading in place" invites readers to experience these great works amidst the landscapes that inspired them. For anyone who loves to roam ancient lands steeped in mystery, Stories and Stone is an incomparable companion that will enhance their enjoyment. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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SYMBOL AND CONQUEST: Public Ritual and Drama in Santa Fe
by Ronald L. Grimes. B&W illustrations througout. Armond Lara cover art. Condition: UNREAD 1993 Univ. of New Mexico Press Trade Paperback, reissue. Tiny edge wear. Content: Santa Fe is especially appropriate for the study of symbolic action in a contemporary setting. Its dramatic past and the conflicts and alliances between Hispanic, Anglo-American, and Indian peoples have resulted in a complex store of icons, emblems, and insignia. In addition to such symbolic figures and events as Out Lady of the Conquest and the fiesta with its queen and the burning of Zozobra (Old Man Gloom), Grimes also pays attention to related aspects of Santa Fean symbology that are often overlooked - tourism, commercialism, iconoclasm, and archetypalism. This compelling exploration of the relationship between ritual and power cuts across the disciplines of religion, anthropology, and sociology. [1 copy available]
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TELLURIDE: A Novel of the West (Western Historical Fiction)
by Susan Clark Schonfield. Great jacket art but no credit given. Condition: UNREAD 1993 Algonquin hardcover, first edition, first pritning. Content: A feisty heroine and her reluctant gunslinger brother head the cast in a fast-paced, vividly written narrative by the author of Refugio, They Named You Wrong . In the fall of 1892, 14 years after leaving his family in Telluride, Colo., retired gunslinger Zachary Coleman (known as Cole) returns to investigate his father's mysterious death. He gets scant welcome from his fiercely independent sister Gretel, who feels he abandoned her, and has a painful reunion with his former lover Catharine, who now shares a loveless marriage with the enigmatic and sinister Heinrich Braunn. Johnny Torres, foreman of Braunn's silver mine, tries to help, but Cole is entrapped by the erotic games Catharine and her husband play. Events build to a climax as a mine explosion buries Johnny alive and the killers who wait for Cole take Gretel hostage. The action is nicely complemented by Schofield's skillful delineation of her characters' struggles with the complications of the human heart. Historical accuracy and splendidly rich detail make this a winner in any genre. [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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VANISHED ARIZONA: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman
by Martha Summerhayes. Intro by Dan Thrapp. Condition: NEW 1979 Bison Trade Paperback edition, 8th printing (c. 1990s). Content: In 1874, when Martha Summerhayes came as a bride to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory, she "saw not much in those first few days besides bright buttons, blue uniforms, and shining swords," but soon enough the hard facts of army life began to intrude. Remonstrating with her husband, Jack, that she had only three rooms and a kitchen instead of "a whole house," she was informed that "women are not reckoned in at all in the War Department," which also failed to appreciate that "'lieutenants' wives needed quite as much as colonels’ wives." In fact, Martha had only a short time to enjoy her new quarters, for in June her husband’s regiment was ordered to Arizona, "that dreaded and then unknown land." Although Martha Summerhayes’s recollections span a quarter of a century and life at a dozen army posts, the heart of this book concerns her experiences during the 1870s in Arizona, where (as Dan L. Thrapp observes in his introduction) the harsh climate and "perennial natural inconveniences from rattlesnakes to cactus thorns and white desperadoes, all made [it] a less than desirable posting for the married man and his wife." First privately printed in 1908, Vanished Arizona was so well-received that in 1910 Mrs. Summerhayes prepared a new edition (reprinted here), which was published in 1911, the year of her death. Among "the essential primary records of the frontier-military West," the book "retains its place securely because of the narrative skill of the author, her delight in life—all life, including even, or perhaps principally, army life and people—and because it is such a joy to read. Thrapp's Introduction describes the Apache-white frontier and sets the book in its historical and biographical context. [1 copy available]
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WATER, EARTH, AND SKY: The Colorado River Basin
by Michael Collier. Beautiful color photos of the Southwest by Collier. Condition: NEW 1999 Univ. of Utah Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no printing given. Content: In 1996 award-winning author and photographer Michael Collier set out in his forty-year-old Cessna seeking an expanded understanding and perspective on the Colorado River Basin - a region spanning the states of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and California - which he had come to know intimately through twenty-five years of river running. Twelve thousand photographs and more than a year later, Collier hadlearned another way of knowing that magnificent landscape and now shares his altered vision. For the first time, through this astonishing collection of aerial photographs, the 244,000 square miles of the basin, including its tributaries and the lands adjacent to them, can be seen for what they are: an integrated bioregion with a natural history fascinating in its complexity and a majestic beauty astounding in its diversity. These are images that provide unforgettable lessons in transcending our often delimiting cultural, political, and scientific worldviews. Flying over the Painted Desert at 150 miles per hour, Collier observes and photographs the entire life span of a thunderstorm: the weighty anvil cloud emptying itself on a parched redrock escarpment and, a few miles downstream, the ensuing flash flood, an erosive tumult of water and detritus. Above the Escalante Canyon, he captures the sinuous, incised meanders of the river, the choreography of a dance twenty million years old between relentless water and uplifting bedrock. The waters of the Colorado River now rarely reach the Sea of Cortez, depleted as they are by hundreds of upstream reservoirs and diversions - and Collier documents this as well: the stark, muddy delta of the river; the feathery channels that remain as the tides withdraw back to the sea. One hundred forty captivating images are accompanied by six essays, written by experts in various fields of natural history and ecology, that illuminate chosen aspects of the landscape: the life cycle of a razorback sucker; the conditions that shape the meanders of a river; the sensory feast of rock, air, water, leaf, and bird that may nourish the human soul. WATER, EARTH, AND SKY is a mosaic of splendid parts, a unique and dynamic assemblage like the Colorado River basin itself, which, viewed from the right distance, resolves itself into the patterns that make it a marvelous and inspiring whole. [1 copy available]
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WEEKENDS FOR TWO IN THE SOUTHWEST: 50 Romantic Getaways
by Bill Gleeson. Beautiful color photos by Cary Hazlegrove. Condition: NEW 2006 Chronicle large soft cover, second edition, revised & updated, first printing. Content: Completely revised and updated, Weekends for Two in the Southwest presents 50 of the best locales for lovers in Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. Illustrated with 200 glorious color photographs, it offers detailed descriptions—including rates, amenities, and ambience—for each inn and resort, plus suggestions for restaurants and daytime excursions, capturing the warmth, spirituality, and allure of one of the most beautiful places in the world. Can't take a trip right now? Buy the book to see what you are missing. Questions welcome. [2 copies 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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YESTERDAY IN SANTA FE: Episodes in a Turbulent History
by Marc Simmons. B&W era photos and B&W drawings illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 2007 Sunstone Press Trade Paperback, revised edition, second printing. Light shelf wear. Content: When was Santa Fe under siege? Who was the local witch reputed to fly around in an egg? Which governor found his chair thrown into the street? Why were Judge Eaton's burros so expensive? What was the Santa Fe--Granada, Spain connection? What city celebration was sixty years too soon? Which governor paid a bribe to win a horse race? Who was "Telegraph" Aubry and why was he famous? What ended the usefulness of the Santa Fe Trail? Do you know the answers to these provocative questions? Marc Simmons does. And in this witty but historically accurate book, he takes readers on a fact-filled but fun journey into Santa Fe's unusual past. Simmons has received many awards for his research and writings on the American Southwest. He is known for his ability to ferret out true but little-known episodes in New Mexico history. [1 copy available]
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