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Geology Underfoot in Northern Arizona
Mountain Press Publishing 2007 0878425284 / 9780878425280 Softcover New
From the plunging depths of the Grand Canyon to jagged volcanic peaks, from Sedona’s vibrant red rocks to the tapered slot of Antelope Canyon, Geology Underfoot in Northern Arizona introduces you to a land of contrasts. At twenty special sites in this timeless landscape, readers can see and sometimes touch evidence of an ancient supercontinent and colliding volcanic island arcs, mighty mountain ranges and tropical seas, thousand-foot sand dunes, a meteor with deep impact, swimming dilophosaurs, a spring that grows rock, and more. 001662
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Agnew, Jeremy Life of a Soldier on the Western Frontier
Mountain Press Publishing 2008 0878425411 / 9780878425419 Softcover New
Focusing on the Indian Wars period of the 1840s through the 1890s, Life of a Soldier on the Western Frontier captures the daily challenges faced by the typical enlisted man and explores the role soldiers played in the conquering of the American frontier. In addition to describing the nitty-gritty details of a soldier’s daily life, this fascinating study explores the Indian Wars from the perspective of both the military and the Indians and examines all aspects of the post–Civil War army, including its organization, its weapons, and its personnel. The book also contains two appendices, one summarizing significant battles and the other listing selected western forts. Both include site locations and information for visitors. Dozens of photos and several maps add to the reader’s understanding and enjoyment. Life of a Soldier on the Western Frontier is more than a convenient reference book—it’s also a gripping and affecting story. 001667
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Anderson, Dan 100 Oklahoma Outlaws, Gangsters, and Lawmen: 1839-1939
Pelican Publishing 2007 1589803841 / 9781589803848 Softcover New
The only thing wilder than Oklahoma in the late nineteenth century are the tales that continue to surround it. In the days of the Wild West, Oklahoma was teeming with assassins, guerillas, hijackers, kidnappers, gangs, and misfits of every size and shape imaginable. Featuring such legendary characters as Billy the Kid, Bonnie and Clyde, Machine Gun Kelly, Belle Starr, and Pretty Boy Floyd, this book combines recorded fact with romanticized legend, allowing the reader to decide how much to believe. 001799
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Arax, Mark West of the West: Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State
Public Affairs 2009 1586483900 / 9781586483906 Hard Cover New
Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, “When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West,” and in this book, Mark Arax spends four years travelling up and down the Golden State to explore its singular place in the world. This is California beyond the clichs. This is California as only a native son, deep in the dust, could draw it. 000551
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Baylor, Katherine California Rocks: A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Golden State
Mountain Press Publishing 2010 0878425659 / 9780878425655 Softcover New
With lively prose and beautiful photographs, California Rocks! explores sixty-five geologic sites at parks and other publicly accessible places. Learn why so many saber-toothed cats were preserved in La Brea Tar Pits, how hollow tubes formed in the flowing lava of Lava Beds National Monument, and what forms the big waves at Mavericks surf break. 001647
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Beebe, Rose Marie and Robert M. Senkewicz, eds. Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846
Heyday Books 2003 1890771481 / 9781890771485 Softcover New
Spanish and Mexican California is generally depicted through the journals of sea captains and other visitors. This groundbreaking collection offers another perspective: early California seen through the eyes of those who explored it, colonized it, and settled it in the age before the gold rush. Over sixty selections from letters, journals, official reports and proclamations, interrogations, and interviews—many newly translated and some presented in English for the first time—lay before us a surprisingly varied and dynamic portrait of an era generally dismissed as static, pastoral, or backward. 001736
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Bibby, Brian Fine Art of California Indian Basketry, the
Heyday Books 2000 0930588878 / 9780930588878 Softcover New
California Indian baskets are considered by many to be among the world's most beautiful, sophisticated, and cherished art objects. This full-color book brings together 62 of the finest baskets ever created, each carefully chosen for their aesthetic value from museums and private collections all over the United States, including the Field Museum in Chicago, the Smithsonian, and Harvard's Peabody Museum. 001727
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Black, Baxter Cactus Tracks and Cowboy Philosophy
Penguin Books 1997 0140275673 / 9780140275674 Softcover New
Described by 'The Washington Post' as being able "to make a dead man sit up and laugh," Baxter Black -- veterinarian turned poet/columnist/raconteur -- has been making living people laugh with his novel, syndicated columns, radio and television appearances. 001427
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