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Desert Oracle

Author : Ken Layne
Publisher : MCD
ISBN 13 : 0374722382
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Desert Oracle written by Ken Layne and published by MCD. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.

True Tales of the American Southwest

Author : Howard Bryan
Publisher : Clear Light Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780940666955
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book True Tales of the American Southwest written by Howard Bryan and published by Clear Light Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers several true stories of the old West, ranging from humorous to touching to tragic and violent - all told with frankness and candour. They offer interesting glimpses of the role of ranchers and other settlers, cowboys, adventurers, soldiers, and lawmen in the history of the region.

Travelers' Tales, American Southwest

Author : Sean O'Reilly
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
ISBN 13 : 9781885211583
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Travelers' Tales, American Southwest written by Sean O'Reilly and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its vast vistas, splendid sunsets, and rich history, the American Southwest has always inspired superb writing. "Travelers' Tales Southwest" features a choice selection of some of the best by Tony Hillerman, David Roberts, Barbara Kingsolver, Alex Schoumatoff, Terry Tempest Williams, Edward Abbey, and others. Maps.

Ghost Stories from the American Southwest

Author : Richard Young
Publisher : August House Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Stories from the American Southwest written by Richard Young and published by August House Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of tales will bring its readers plenty of delicious shivers.

Into the Far, Wild Country

Author : George Wythe Baylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Into the Far, Wild Country written by George Wythe Baylor and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From 1899 to 1906, Colonel Baylor wrote fifty-two articles for the El Paso Daily Herald. The articles, ably edited and annotated by historian Thompson, vary from accounts of the Civil War in El Paso and the Mesilla Valley, to fights with Comanches in North Texas and Victorio's Apaches in the mountains of Chihuahua. Baylor also recalls the ill-fated 1850-1851 Parker H. French Expedition and life in the California gold fields. Also included are biographical sketches of "Don Santiago" Magoffin and Baylor's controversial older brother, Col. John Robert Baylor." "Some of Baylor's most valuable writings are his Civil War recollections. These include accounts of the surrender of Federal forces at St. Agustin Springs, New Mexico in 1861, the massacre of Lt. Reuben E. Mays and fourteen Confederates deep in the arid expanses of the Big Bend, his service as senior aide to Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston at the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, the Red River Campaign, and an amazingly objective account of how he came to kill Gen. John A. Wharton at the Fannin Hotel in Houston in April 1865."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Ladies of the Canyons

Author : Lesley Poling-Kempes
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816524947
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Ladies of the Canyons written by Lesley Poling-Kempes and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world. Educated, restless, and inquisitive, Natalie Curtis, Carol Stanley, Alice Klauber, and Mary Cabot Wheelwright were plucky, intrepid women whose lives were transformed in the first decades of the twentieth century by the people and the landscape of the American Southwest. Part of an influential circle of women that included Louisa Wade Wetherill, Alice Corbin Henderson, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Mary Austin, and Willa Cather, these ladies imagined and created a new home territory, a new society, and a new identity for themselves and for the women who would follow them. Their adventures were shared with the likes of Theodore Roosevelt and Robert Henri, Edgar Hewett and Charles Lummis, Chief Tawakwaptiwa of the Hopi, and Hostiin Klah of the Navajo. Their journeys took them to Monument Valley and Rainbow Bridge, into Canyon de Chelly, and across the high mesas of the Hopi, down through the Grand Canyon, and over the red desert of the Four Corners, to the pueblos along the Rio Grande and the villages in the mountains between Santa Fe and Taos. Although their stories converge in the outback of the American Southwest, the saga of Ladies of the Canyons is also the tale of Boston’s Brahmins, the Greenwich Village avant-garde, the birth of American modern art, and Santa Fe’s art and literary colony. Ladies of the Canyons is the story of New Women stepping boldly into the New World of inconspicuous success, ambitious failure, and the personal challenges experienced by women and men during the emergence of the Modern Age.

Coyote

Author :
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152019587
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Coyote written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coyote insists the crows teach him how to fly, but the experience ends in diaster.

A Great Aridness

Author : William deBuys
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199779104
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book A Great Aridness written by William deBuys and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale catastrophe. In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest might look like when the heat turns up and the water runs out. This semi-arid land, vulnerable to water shortages, rising temperatures, wildfires, and a host of other environmental challenges, is poised to bear the heaviest consequences of global environmental change in the United States. Examining interrelated factors such as vanishing wildlife, forest die backs, and the over-allocation of the already stressed Colorado River--upon which nearly 30 million people depend--the author narrates the landscape's history--and future. He tells the inspiring stories of the climatologists and others who are helping untangle the complex, interlocking causes and effects of global warming. And while the fate of this region may seem at first blush to be of merely local interest, what happens in the Southwest, deBuys suggests, will provide a glimpse of what other mid-latitude arid lands worldwide--the Mediterranean Basin, southern Africa, and the Middle East--will experience in the coming years. Written with an elegance that recalls the prose of John McPhee and Wallace Stegner, A Great Aridness offers an unflinching look at the dramatic effects of climate change occurring right now in our own backyard.

True Tales from Another Mexico

Author : Sam Quinones
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826322968
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book True Tales from Another Mexico written by Sam Quinones and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merges keen observation with astute interviews and storytelling in the search for an authentic modern Mexico, finding it in part with emigrants.

Twilight Troubadour

Author : Robert Franklin Gish
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 1611395747
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Twilight Troubadour written by Robert Franklin Gish and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2019-09-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in a Spanish American culture in the American West at the turn of the twentieth century invites assimilation, a process made all the more conflicted through the evolving stages of individuation and the tensions of political correctness and hyphenated identities: Anglo-American, Spanish-American, Mexican-American, Native American, and the subcultures of Stompers, Pachucos, Chicanos, Cholos, Indios, and Squares. This book contains a dozen interconnected stories set against these laminated ethnicities. Whether read as love songs or laments these soul stories all serenade the American Southwest and its allure as a landscape of adventure and romance during the transition from Old to New West. It is said that a land determines a people and is determined by them, a belief told lyrically and poignantly in these story serenades. Includes Readers Guide.

Spooky Southwest

Author : S. E. Schlosser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493028006
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Spooky Southwest written by S. E. Schlosser and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous Southwestern ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invisible world. Here we have a collection of unnerving tales of events that happened—and still do happen—in the collective back yard of the Southwestern states. Accompanied by evocative illustrations, these compelling retellings of popular folktales feature supernatural occurrences and ghosts of all sorts, from cattle rustlers to runaway trains. Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for 35 creepy tails of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico, and Texas. Set in the American Southwest's historic towns and sparsely populated expanses, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder again and again.

First Impressions

Author : David J. Weber
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030023175X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book First Impressions written by David J. Weber and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the history and culture of the American Southwest, as told through early encounters with fifteen iconic sites This unique guide for literate travelers in the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the first non-natives to describe them. Noted borderlands historians David J. Weber and William deBuys lead readers through centuries of political, cultural, and ecological change. The sites visited in this volume range from popular destinations within the National Park System—including Carlsbad Caverns, the Grand Canyon, and Mesa Verde—to the Spanish colonial towns of Santa Fe and Taos and the living Indian communities of Acoma, Zuni, and Taos. Lovers of the Southwest, residents and visitors alike, will delight in the authors’ skillful evocation of the region’s sweeping landscapes, its rich Hispanic and Indian heritage, and the sense of discovery that so enchanted its early explorers. Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University

Mythical River

Author : Melissa L. Sevigny
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609383931
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Mythical River written by Melissa L. Sevigny and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a lyrical mix of natural science, history, and memoir, Melissa L. Sevigny ponders what it means to make a home in the American Southwest at a time when its most essential resource, water, is overexploited and undervalued. Mythical River takes the reader on a historical sojourn into the story of the Buenaventura, an imaginary river that led eighteenth- and nineteenth-century explorers, fur trappers, and emigrants astray for seventy-five years. This mythical river becomes a metaphor for our modern-day attempts to supply water to a growing population in the Colorado River Basin. Readers encounter a landscape literally remapped by the search for “new” water, where rivers flow uphill, dams and deep wells reshape geography, trees become intolerable competitors for water, and new technologies tap into clouds and oceans. In contrast to this fantasy of abundance, Sevigny explores acts of restoration. From a dismantled dam in Arizona to an accidental wetland in Mexico, she examines how ecologists, engineers, politicians, and citizens have attempted to secure water for desert ecosystems. In a place scarred by conflict, she shows how recognizing the rights of rivers is a path toward water security. Ultimately, Sevigny writes a new map for the future of the American Southwest, a vision of a society that accepts the desert’s limits in exchange for an intimate relationship with the natural world.

True Tales of the Wild West

Author : Paul Robert Walker
Publisher : National Geographic Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9780792282181
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book True Tales of the Wild West written by Paul Robert Walker and published by National Geographic Children's Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares ten stories featuring legendary places, events, and characters from the era of westward expansion.

Wild Wisdom

Author : Rae Ann Kumelos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940322100
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Wild Wisdom written by Rae Ann Kumelos and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New All-Too-True-Blue History of the American Southwest

Author : Blackbird Crow Raven
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781731526731
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The New All-Too-True-Blue History of the American Southwest written by Blackbird Crow Raven and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-11-18 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formerly only available as volumes of the individual States, this (Southwest) anthology is one of five (West, Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast are the four others) that combine alternative (wacky/zany) histories of the States of each region, in this case Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Each anthology also contains, as a bonus, the alternative history of the "Ewe-Knighted States" as a whole.

American Indian Ghost Stories of the Southwest

Author : Antonio R. Garcez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780963402974
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book American Indian Ghost Stories of the Southwest written by Antonio R. Garcez and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Indian Ghost Stories of the Southwest is the first book of American Indian ghost stories told by American Indians and written by an American Indian. These stories were told to the author by present-day Indians who had directly witnessed helpful spirits and horrific hauntings throughout the states of Arizona and New Mexico. Put aside disbelief, inhale deeply the scent of the desert mountain sage and listen.