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Book Synopsis EXPLORING THE 4 CORNERS REGION by : James Arthur Schwarz
Download or read book EXPLORING THE 4 CORNERS REGION written by James Arthur Schwarz and published by Total Quality Systems Software. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Four Corners states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah provide a wide range of places to explore. From wonderful cities like Tucson or Santa Fe to beautiful landscapes like the Grand Canyon and Colorado Rockies. This guide covers the region where the four states meet including points of interest, restaurants, hiking/biking/skiing, museums and more.. James A. Schwarz has spent the last 35 years exploring the Southwest region of the US. He kept a list of favorite places to share with friends visiting. The list grew in size to become this book. Jim currently resides in Montrose, Colorado and teaches skiing at Telluride.
Download or read book Four Corners written by Kenneth A. Brown and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Colorado Plateau and Four Corners region of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico, looking at the history, geography, and people of the southwestern part of the country.
Book Synopsis Hiking the Southwest's Geology by : Ralph Lee Hopkins
Download or read book Hiking the Southwest's Geology written by Ralph Lee Hopkins and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiking the Southwest's Geology: Four Corners Region takes curious hikers on a journey through time that explores the Colorado Plateau-an immense land of canyons, mesas, and isolated mountain ranges in the American Southwest. Hopkins' stunning color photography brings the Four Corners Region to life in dazzling detail.
Book Synopsis Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners by : William W. Dunmire
Download or read book Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners written by William W. Dunmire and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English/Spanish bilingual fantasy rooted in the cultural context of the Hispanic Southwest.
Book Synopsis Four Corners - Insiders' Guide by : Dorothy Nobis
Download or read book Four Corners - Insiders' Guide written by Dorothy Nobis and published by Insiders' Guide. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a local author, this guide includes details about hotels, restaurants, annual events, attractions, nightlife, parks and recreation, real estate, and much more.
Book Synopsis Southwest Reflections by : Steve Larese
Download or read book Southwest Reflections written by Steve Larese and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore America's Four Corners region, the only location in the nation where four states meet. Located in the heart of the Navajo Nation, this book presents over 230 beautiful color photographs from New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. Hike into the Grand Canyon, explore the attractions on public lands, including Native American ruins at Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde, and immerse yourself in the surreal scenery of Bryce Canyon, the Bisti Badlands, and many otherworldly landscapes throughout the region. Meet the area's original residents, members of the Navajo and Hopi tribes. With area attractions and driving itineraries included among the captions, readers can successfully plan their own adventure to this enchanting and ancient land. This book is a valuable addition to any explorer's library, whether they are armchair explorers or in the field adventurers!
Book Synopsis Mapping the Four Corners by : Robert S. McPherson
Download or read book Mapping the Four Corners written by Robert S. McPherson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summer’s work completing a previous survey. Their accomplishments would go down in history as one of the great American surveying expeditions of the nineteenth century. By skillfully weaving the surveyors’ diary entries, field notes, and correspondence with newspaper accounts, historians Robert S. McPherson and Susan Rhoades Neel bring the Hayden Survey to life. Mapping the Four Corners provides an entertaining, engaging narrative of the team’s experiences, contextualized with a thoughtful introduction and conclusion. Accompanied by the great photographer William Henry Jackson, Hayden’s team quickly found their trip to be more challenging than expected. The travelers describe wrangling half-wild pack mules, trying to sleep in rain-soaked blankets, and making tea from muddy, alkaline water. Along the way, they encountered diverse peoples, evidence of prehistoric civilizations, and spectacular scenery—Hispanic villages in Colorado and New Mexico; Mesa Verde, Hovenweep, and other Anasazi sites; and the Hopi mesas. Not everyone they met was glad to see them: in southeastern Utah surveyors fought and escaped a band of Utes and Paiutes who recognized that the survey meant dispossession from their homeland. Hayden saw his expedition as a scientific endeavor focused on geology, geographic description, cartographic accuracy, and even ethnography, but the search for economic potential was a significant underlying motive. As this book shows, these pragmatic scientists were on the lookout for gold beneath every rock, grazing lands in every valley, and economic opportunity around each bend in the trail. The Hayden Survey ultimately shaped the American imagination in contradictory ways, solidifying the idea of “progress”—and government funding of its pursuit—while also revealing, via Jackson’s photographs, a landscape with a beauty hitherto unknown and unimagined.
Book Synopsis Journey to the High Southwest by : Robert Casey
Download or read book Journey to the High Southwest written by Robert Casey and published by . This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superlative guide has been praised as the best book available concerning the Four Corners region. In addition to extensive information on the area's history, geology, climate, and topograhy, it also explores in depth the unique character of its native cultures with entries that include: -- travel with the author to remote Hopi villages, historic Spanish cities, and Wild West mining towns; -- full profiles of hundreds of attractions and sites of interest, including museums, national parks, and bicycle tours; -- completely updated information on lodgings, restaurants, shops, and events.
Download or read book Legacy on Stone written by Sally J. Cole and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the deep and colorful sandstone canyons west of the Rockies, along river corridors of northern Colorado, and inscribed on rock outcroppings of the Colorado Plateau, the rock art of ancient and historic inhabitants of the West is an enduring record of past ideas and practices. This first integrated analysis of rock art styles throughout the western Colorado region, dating from pre-A.D. 1 to the middle of the twentieth century, bring together information from earlier studies and presents new information to shed light on how various cultures developed and interacted over time and in diverse geographical settings. Sally Cole traces connections between art on canyon walls, rock shelters, and bolders and designs on pottery, basketry, and other artificts, placing the art in cultural context. This book surveys the cultural history and rock art traditions of Archaic hunters and gatherers, Anasazi, Fremont, Navajo, Eastern Shoshoni, and Ute peoples. regions of special interest include Mesa Verde and the Four Corners area, the Uncompahgre Plateau, Dinosaur National Monument and the canyons of the Green and Yampa rivers, and the Canyonlands of Utah and Colorado. An abundance of drawings, photographs, and maps illustrate the text and reveal the diversity of rock art forms and settings in the West.
Book Synopsis Hiking the Southwest's Geology by : Ralph Hopkins
Download or read book Hiking the Southwest's Geology written by Ralph Hopkins and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2002-12-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiking the Southwest's Geology: Four Corners Region takes curious hikers on a journey through time that explores the Colorado Plateau -- an immense land of canyons, mesas, and isolated mountain ranges in the American Southwest. Divided into representative geologic provinces/areas, author Ralph Hopkins specifies distinct geologic or scenic features and provides information about what makes each province unique. He describes each hike from the perspective of the geologic evolution of the landscape while exploring basic geologic concepts and providing a framework for understanding the major forces that have shaped the land. Hopkins' stunning color photography brings the Four Corners Region to life in dazzling detail.
Book Synopsis The Illustrated Guide to the Grand Circle by : Daniel S. Pierce
Download or read book The Illustrated Guide to the Grand Circle written by Daniel S. Pierce and published by . This book was released on 2021-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sacred Land, Sacred View by : Robert S. McPherson
Download or read book Sacred Land, Sacred View written by Robert S. McPherson and published by Charles Redd Center for Western Studies. This book was released on 1992 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic geographical formations tower over the Four Corners country in the southwestern United States. The mountains, cliffs, and sandstone spires, familiar landmarks for anglo travelers, orient Navajos both physically and spiritually. In Sacred Land, Sacred View, Robert McPherson describes the mythological significance of these landmarks. Navajos read their environment as a spiritual text: the gods created the physical world to help, teach, and protect people through an integrated system of beliefs represented in nature. The author observes that the Middle East is of "no greater import to Christians than the Dine's holy land is to Navajos." He continues: "Sacred mountains circumscribe the land, containing the junction of the San Juan River and Mancos Creek, where Born for Water invoked supernatural aid to overcome danger and death and where, at the Bear's Ears formation, good triumphed over evil." The more one learns about the Dine, the more one inevitably admires their way of perceiving and interpreting what lies just beyond the focus of human vision. Their renowned respect for nature and way of living in harmony with the environment derive from their religious traditions.
Book Synopsis Moon Four Corners by : Kathleen Bryant
Download or read book Moon Four Corners written by Kathleen Bryant and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arizona resident Kathleen Bryant shares her knowledge of the Four Corners region, from the alien rock formations of Arches National Park to the lightning-swept mesas of Canyonlands. Bryant offers her expert advice on how to make the most of the area's many amazing sights, historical landmarks, and outdoor activities, as well as one-of-a-kind trip strategies—including Soak Up the Scenery and Historic Treasures—for travelers of all interests and budgets. With tips for mountain biking on Slickrock Trail near Moab, driving through breathtaking Monument Valley, and rafting down the Colorado River, Moon Four Corners gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience.
Book Synopsis Quest for the Golden Circle by : Arthur R. Gómez
Download or read book Quest for the Golden Circle written by Arthur R. Gómez and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until World War II, the Four Corners Region—where New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona meet—was a collection of isolated rural towns. In the postwar baby boom era, however, small communities like Farmington, New Mexico, became bustling municipalities with rapidly expanding economies. In Quest for the Golden Circle, Arthur Gomez traces the development of the Four Corners' two industries, mining and tourism, to discover how each contributed to the economic and urban transformation of this region during the 1950s and 1960s. Focusing on four cities—Durango, Colorado; Moab, Utah; Flagstaff, Arizona; and Farmington, New Mexico—Gomez chronicles how these towns played key roles in the West's dramatic postwar expansion. Cities such as Denver, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso, and Salt Lake City all grew through use of the abundant petroleum, uranium, natural gas, timber, and other natural resources extracted from the Four Corners region. But the energy boom in these towns was not to last. With the arrival of foreign oil bringing economic growth to a halt in the early 1970s, town leaders turned again to the land to stimulate their economy. This time, the resource was a seemingly inexhaustible one—tourism. Gomez examines how business-minded citizens marketed the area's scenic wonders and established the entire region as a tourist destination. Their efforts were further assisted by the selection of stunning federal lands—Mesa Verde, Grand Canyon, and Arches National Parks—as treasures protected and promoted by the National Park Service. Both mining and tourism, however, were beset by complex new problems and issues. Extensive highways, for instance, were planned to bisect a Navajo reservation. As Gomez illustrates, the growing cities in the Four Corners region felt tremendous competing pressures between outside business powers and local needs as their extractive economy boomed and busted and as they then struggled to attract tourism dollars. In addition, he highlights the prominent roles played by federal agencies like the Atomic Energy Commission and the National Park Service in shaping regional destiny. An outstanding analysis of the complexities of postwar development, Quest for the Golden Circle successfully illuminates the history of one region within the larger story of the modern American West.
Download or read book Four Corners USA written by Jim Turner and published by . This book was released on 2018-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Way out on the Colorado Plateau, two lines cross at right angles, forming the borders of four states. You can stand on this spot and be in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah all at the same time. This book covers the area roughly 150 miles around that point, a land of fantastic rock formations, ancient dwellings, and diverse cultures. Multiple national parks and monuments have been set aside to preserve the Four Corners' wonders. Nature's rainbow of colors paints these vast landscapes and barren badlands where sandstone rock sculptures grace majestic canyons. Join us in a tour of these remarkable places with 126 brilliant photographs to get a feel for this unforgettable land and its people.
Download or read book Four Corners written by Kira Salak and published by Bantam Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 24, Kira Salak undertook a three-month solo journey across Papua, New Guinea. Four Corners, her account of that trip, is an extraordinary travel memoir. Amid the breathtaking landscapes and wildlife, Salak traversed this island, known as the last frontier of adventure travel, by dugout canoe and on foot. Along the way, Salak stayed in a village where people still practiced cannibalism behind the backs of the missionaries, met the leader of the OPM, the separatist guerrilla movement opposing the Indonesian occupation of Western New Guinea, and undertook an epic trek through the jungle. Four Corners is also an interior journey as Salak explores her dysfunctional family past, and the demons that drive her to experience situations that most of us can barely imagine. Reading more like a thriller than a travel book, Four Corners is compulsive armchair travel at its very best.
Download or read book Geological Survey Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
