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Insight Guide National Parks, Western United States •   Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK • 2007 • PAPER
A volume in the award-winning Insight series, this guide is noted for its wonderful photography, superb production and informative short essays. It is a thoroughly illustrated, comprehensive guide to the national parks of the western United States, including Arches, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Zion, the Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forest. (USW181, $24.95)

The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons •  John Wesley Powell •  Wallace Stegner
EXPLORATION • 2003 • PAPER • 397 PAGES
The classic tale of adventure and exploration of the rivers and canyonlands of the Colorado Plateau, originally published in 1875 -- and still essential reading for any traveler to the Grand Canyon. The one-armed explorer/scientist Powell captures all the exhilaration and danger of adventure in unknown territory. He and his men explored 1,000 miles of often-treacherous river in what is now Utah and Arizona. (USW80, $15.00)

Desert Solitaire •  Edward Abbey
NATURAL HISTORY • 1990 • PAPER • 289 PAGES • FAVORITE
A beloved classic, read aloud at campfires throughout the Southwest. It's one of the great works on the value of the desert, eloquent and laugh-out-loud funny. Although Abbey writes specifically about the Colorado Plateau and his experiences as a ranger at Arches National Park outside Moab Utah, his message is universal. Originally published in 1990. (DES02, $14.95)

Rising from the Plains •  John McPhee
NATURAL HISTORY • 1986 • PAPER • 213 PAGES
Few nature writers are as vivid or compelling as John McPhee. A great storyteller and reporter, here he profiles U.S. Geological Survey scientist David Love while simultaneously writing a sophisticated, elegant and accessible description of the geology of Wyoming and, by extension, the northern Rockies. (USW18, $15.00)

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Grand Canyon National Park Map •   Trails Illustrated • A detailed hiker's topographic map of Grand Canyon National Park. (USW332, $11.95)

Grand Teton National Park Map •   Trails Illustrated • A detailed topographic map of Grand Teton National Park. (USW34, $11.95)

Yellowstone National Park Map •   Trails Illustrated • A hiker's overview map of the park at a scale of 1:126,000 with good topographic relief. (USW32, $11.95)

Zion National Park Map •   Trails Illustrated • A detailed map of Zion National Park at a scale of 1:38,000. (USW144, $11.95)

Lonely Planet Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks •  Bradley Mayhew •  Carolyn McCarthy • GUIDEBOOK • With personality and local savvy, Montana resident Bradley Mayhew and Carolyn McCarthy cover the practicalities of where to go and what to do. With more photographs, detailed itineraries, family-friendly options, suggested hikes, two-color maps and a good overview of natural history. (USW438, $19.99)

Moon Handbook Grand Canyon •  Bill Weir • GUIDEBOOK • A handy, practical guide to the Grand Canyon and nearby regions, this book is a good resource for planning a trip, featuring extensive, up-to-date listings, maps and other background information. (SWU175, $16.95)

Moon Handbook Zion and Bryce •  W.C. McRae • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide to traveling and hiking in Utah's Zion and Bryce National Parks, with shorter sections on nearby Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef and Escalante. (SWU181, $17.95)

Yellowstone, A Visitor's Companion •  George Wuerthner • GUIDEBOOK • A handbook to the geology, ecology, wildlife and plants of Yellowstone. With photographs, a bird list, and brief field guide with black-and-white drawings. (USW54, $15.95)

Do (Not) Feed the Bears, The Fitful History of Wildlife and Tourists in Yellowstone •  Alice Wondrak Biel • HISTORY • Biel goes beyond Yogi and Smokey, showing changing attitudes toward the bears from the 19th-century up to current conservation policy. (SWU465, $15.95)

Going Places, Transportation Redefines the Twentieth-Century West •  Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes • HISTORY • A narrative history of the relationship between transportation and the history of the modern American West. With over 100 photographs. (USW494, $29.95)

Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: Railroads in the West •  Dee Brown • HISTORY • A spirited history of the transcontinental railroad and the conquering of the American West. (USW04, $15.00)

Hear That Train Whistle Blow!, How the Railroad Changed the World •  Milton Meltzer • HISTORY • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12) • Metzer explains how the advent of rail travel has influenced almost every aspect of society. For readers aged 9-12. (USW493, $8.95)

How the Canyon Became Grand, A Short History •  Stephen J. Pyne • HISTORY • The history of the idea and allure of the Grand Canyon, and its transformation from worthless real estate to marvel of nature. (USW76, $15.00)

Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park •  Paul Schullery • HISTORY • An account of the conservationists who labored to create the park. (RKY97, $22.00)

Nothing Like it in the World, The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869 •  Stephen Ambrose • HISTORY • Ambrose uses his considerable skill as a writer and his experience as a biographer to capture the energy, spirit and verve required to build the railroad. An admiring, enthusiastic account. (USW224, $17.00)

The Spirit of Yellowstone •  Judith L. Meyer •  Vance Howard • HISTORY • An engaging, scholarly history of Yellowstone and its place in America's imagination, covering the establishment of the park, geography, wildlife, and more. Complemented by color photographs, archival illustrations and maps. (RKY25, $19.95)

Travel by Pullman, A Century of Service •  Joe Welsh • HISTORY • A nostalgic history of the Pullman and the golden age of American rail travel. With black-and-white and color illustrations, including views of Pullman interiors. (USW495, $34.95)

Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West •  Wallace Stegner • EXPLORATION • The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of explorer John Wesley Powell by the great Wallace Stegner, first published in 1954. It's both an adventure and an insightful look at the politics of development in the American West. (USW78, $16.00)

Lost in My Own Backyard, A Walk in Yellowstone National Park •  Tim Cahill • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Tim Cahill mixes tales of walks, hikes and three good backcountry treks with history, lore and gee-whiz wonder in this breezy celebration of America's first national park. (USW430, $16.95)

Undaunted Courage, Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, And The Opening of the American West •  Stephen Ambrose • EXPLORATION • A fast-paced, marvelously detailed account of the exploration of the American West. Ambrose relies on newly published materials and original journals to recreate the high adventure and politics of late 18th-century America. (USW20, $17.00)

Wapiti Wilderness, The Life of Olaus & Margaret Murie in Jackson Hole, Wyoming •  Margaret Murie •  Olaus Murie • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Margaret and her biologist husband (who did the illustrations for the book) write of a winter, and especially the elk, at a ranch in Jackson Hole. They alternate chapters, mixing tales of work as a field biologist with stories of life in the region, where they lived for 37 years. (USW68, $24.95)

The Best of the West, An Anthology of Classic Writing from the American West •  Tony Hillerman • ANTHOLOGY • A campfire collection of unforgettable portraits of the West, this anthology takes in travelers, homesteaders, Navajos, government officials, pioneers and authors as diverse as Meriwether Lewis, John Steinbeck and Edward Abbey. (USW87, $18.00)

The Laughing Boy •  Oliver La Farge • LITERATURE • An ethnographer and archaeologist, La Farge captures the flavor of the landscapes and ways of life in Northern Arizona in the early 20th century in this Pulitzer Prize-winning short novel. (USW240, $10.95)

A Naturalist's Guide to Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Park •  Frank C. Craighead, Jr. • NATURAL HISTORY • A memoir and classic natural history of the wildlife of Jackson Hole and the Tetons by a celebrated local biologist, organized week-by-week throughout the year. (SWU168, $18.95)

Cadillac Desert, The American West and Its Disappearing Water •  Marc Reisner • NATURAL HISTORY • A definitive history of water development in the American desert -- and a now-classic chronicle of wrong-headed policies and misadventures controlling the great rivers of the West. (USW246, $18.00)

Decade of the Wolf, Returning the Wild to Yellowstone •  Douglas Smith •  Gary Ferguson • NATURAL HISTORY • Biologist Smith (Yellowstone Wolf Recovery Project) and nature writer Ferguson look at the ten year's since the re-introduction of wolves to Yellowstone. (RKY90, $16.95)

Downcanyon, A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River Through the Grand Canyon •  Ann Zwinger • NATURAL HISTORY • A vivid overview of the Grand Canyon and Colorado River, from Mile 0 at Lees Ferry to Mile 278 at Grand Wash Fault. Zwinger interweaves geology, plants, animals and human history in her account. (USW11, $19.95)

Searching For Yellowstone, Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness •  Paul D. Schullery • NATURAL HISTORY • An engaging social and environmental history of Yellowstone from the Pleistocene to the present focusing on the park since its founding in 1872. Schullery has worked in Yellowstone as a ranger, a historian and the chief of cultural resources. (USW59, $19.95)

The Grizzly Bear •  Thomas McNamee • NATURAL HISTORY • A natural history of "ursus arctos horribilis" -- lyrical, well written and provocative. An appropriate introduction to the beast for anyone traveling to grizzly country. McNamee also wrote "The Return of the Wolf to Yellowstone." (BST39, $16.95)

Travelers Guide to the Geology of the Colorado Plateau •  Donald L. Baars • NATURAL HISTORY • A clearly written survey of the geology of the Four Corners region. (SWU32, $25.00)

Windows into the Earth, The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks •  Robert B. Smith •  Lee J. Siegel • NATURAL HISTORY • A geologic history and tour of the northern Rockies, particularly Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. With an outstanding overview of the geologic formation of the region and 50 color photographs. (USW356, $29.95)

A Field Guide to the Grand Canyon •  Stephen Whitney • FIELD GUIDE • A compact guide to the natural history of the Grand Canyon with 71 handsome color plates, maps and illustrations. (USW06, $19.95)

A Naturalist's Guide to Canyon Country •  David Williams •  Gloria Brown • FIELD GUIDE • A compact field guide to the wildlife of the high desert of the Colorado Plateau and the nine national parks of the region. Williams includes an overview of the history, geology and ecology of the high desert along with basic information on identifying common plants and animals. (USW289, $22.95)

Field Guide to the Grizzly Bear •  Lance Olsen • FIELD GUIDE • OUT OF PRINT • A brief introduction of the ecology, natural history and conservation of the grizzly, sponsored by the Great Bear Foundation. (BST38, $6.95)

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America •  David Sibley • FIELD GUIDE • A compact, geographically-specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird. (USW418, $19.95)

Yellowstone Wildlife, An Introduction to Familiar Species of Yellowstone Area •   Pocket Naturalist • FIELD GUIDE • A handy plastic card illustrating the birds, mammals, fishes, amphibians and reptiles of Yellowstone. (RKY88, $5.95)

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	Insight Guide National Parks, Western United States • Insight Guides GUIDEBOOK • 2007 • PAPER A volume in the award-winning Insight series, this guide is noted for its wonderful photography, superb production and informative short essays. It is a thoroughly illustrated, comprehensive guide to the national parks of the western United States, including Arches, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Zion, the Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forest. (USW181, $24.95)
	The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons • John Wesley Powell • Wallace Stegner EXPLORATION • 2003 • PAPER • 397 PAGES The classic tale of adventure and exploration of the rivers and canyonlands of the Colorado Plateau, originally published in 1875 -- and still essential reading for any traveler to the Grand Canyon. The one-armed explorer/scientist Powell captures all the exhilaration and danger of adventure in unknown territory. He and his men explored 1,000 miles of often-treacherous river in what is now Utah and Arizona. (USW80, $15.00)
	Desert Solitaire • Edward Abbey NATURAL HISTORY • 1990 • PAPER • 289 PAGES • FAVORITE A beloved classic, read aloud at campfires throughout the Southwest. It's one of the great works on the value of the desert, eloquent and laugh-out-loud funny. Although Abbey writes specifically about the Colorado Plateau and his experiences as a ranger at Arches National Park outside Moab Utah, his message is universal. Originally published in 1990. (DES02, $14.95)
	Rising from the Plains • John McPhee NATURAL HISTORY • 1986 • PAPER • 213 PAGES Few nature writers are as vivid or compelling as John McPhee. A great storyteller and reporter, here he profiles U.S. Geological Survey scientist David Love while simultaneously writing a sophisticated, elegant and accessible description of the geology of Wyoming and, by extension, the northern Rockies. (USW18, $15.00)

	Grand Canyon National Park Map • Trails Illustrated • A detailed hiker's topographic map of Grand Canyon National Park. (USW332, $11.95)
	Grand Teton National Park Map • Trails Illustrated • A detailed topographic map of Grand Teton National Park. (USW34, $11.95)
	Yellowstone National Park Map • Trails Illustrated • A hiker's overview map of the park at a scale of 1:126,000 with good topographic relief. (USW32, $11.95)
	Zion National Park Map • Trails Illustrated • A detailed map of Zion National Park at a scale of 1:38,000. (USW144, $11.95)
	Lonely Planet Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks • Bradley Mayhew • Carolyn McCarthy • GUIDEBOOK • With personality and local savvy, Montana resident Bradley Mayhew and Carolyn McCarthy cover the practicalities of where to go and what to do. With more photographs, detailed itineraries, family-friendly options, suggested hikes, two-color maps and a good overview of natural history. (USW438, $19.99)
	Moon Handbook Grand Canyon • Bill Weir • GUIDEBOOK • A handy, practical guide to the Grand Canyon and nearby regions, this book is a good resource for planning a trip, featuring extensive, up-to-date listings, maps and other background information. (SWU175, $16.95)
	Moon Handbook Zion and Bryce • W.C. McRae • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide to traveling and hiking in Utah's Zion and Bryce National Parks, with shorter sections on nearby Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef and Escalante. (SWU181, $17.95)
	Yellowstone, A Visitor's Companion • George Wuerthner • GUIDEBOOK • A handbook to the geology, ecology, wildlife and plants of Yellowstone. With photographs, a bird list, and brief field guide with black-and-white drawings. (USW54, $15.95)
	Do (Not) Feed the Bears, The Fitful History of Wildlife and Tourists in Yellowstone • Alice Wondrak Biel • HISTORY • Biel goes beyond Yogi and Smokey, showing changing attitudes toward the bears from the 19th-century up to current conservation policy. (SWU465, $15.95)
	Going Places, Transportation Redefines the Twentieth-Century West • Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes • HISTORY • A narrative history of the relationship between transportation and the history of the modern American West. With over 100 photographs. (USW494, $29.95)
	Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: Railroads in the West • Dee Brown • HISTORY • A spirited history of the transcontinental railroad and the conquering of the American West. (USW04, $15.00)
	Hear That Train Whistle Blow!, How the Railroad Changed the World • Milton Meltzer • HISTORY • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12) • Metzer explains how the advent of rail travel has influenced almost every aspect of society. For readers aged 9-12. (USW493, $8.95)
	How the Canyon Became Grand, A Short History • Stephen J. Pyne • HISTORY • The history of the idea and allure of the Grand Canyon, and its transformation from worthless real estate to marvel of nature. (USW76, $15.00)
	Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park • Paul Schullery • HISTORY • An account of the conservationists who labored to create the park. (RKY97, $22.00)
	Nothing Like it in the World, The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869 • Stephen Ambrose • HISTORY • Ambrose uses his considerable skill as a writer and his experience as a biographer to capture the energy, spirit and verve required to build the railroad. An admiring, enthusiastic account. (USW224, $17.00)
	The Spirit of Yellowstone • Judith L. Meyer • Vance Howard • HISTORY • An engaging, scholarly history of Yellowstone and its place in America's imagination, covering the establishment of the park, geography, wildlife, and more. Complemented by color photographs, archival illustrations and maps. (RKY25, $19.95)
	Travel by Pullman, A Century of Service • Joe Welsh • HISTORY • A nostalgic history of the Pullman and the golden age of American rail travel. With black-and-white and color illustrations, including views of Pullman interiors. (USW495, $34.95)
	Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West • Wallace Stegner • EXPLORATION • The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of explorer John Wesley Powell by the great Wallace Stegner, first published in 1954. It's both an adventure and an insightful look at the politics of development in the American West. (USW78, $16.00)
	Lost in My Own Backyard, A Walk in Yellowstone National Park • Tim Cahill • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Tim Cahill mixes tales of walks, hikes and three good backcountry treks with history, lore and gee-whiz wonder in this breezy celebration of America's first national park. (USW430, $16.95)
	Undaunted Courage, Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, And The Opening of the American West • Stephen Ambrose • EXPLORATION • A fast-paced, marvelously detailed account of the exploration of the American West. Ambrose relies on newly published materials and original journals to recreate the high adventure and politics of late 18th-century America. (USW20, $17.00)
	Wapiti Wilderness, The Life of Olaus & Margaret Murie in Jackson Hole, Wyoming • Margaret Murie • Olaus Murie • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Margaret and her biologist husband (who did the illustrations for the book) write of a winter, and especially the elk, at a ranch in Jackson Hole. They alternate chapters, mixing tales of work as a field biologist with stories of life in the region, where they lived for 37 years. (USW68, $24.95)
	The Best of the West, An Anthology of Classic Writing from the American West • Tony Hillerman • ANTHOLOGY • A campfire collection of unforgettable portraits of the West, this anthology takes in travelers, homesteaders, Navajos, government officials, pioneers and authors as diverse as Meriwether Lewis, John Steinbeck and Edward Abbey. (USW87, $18.00)
	The Laughing Boy • Oliver La Farge • LITERATURE • An ethnographer and archaeologist, La Farge captures the flavor of the landscapes and ways of life in Northern Arizona in the early 20th century in this Pulitzer Prize-winning short novel. (USW240, $10.95)
	A Naturalist's Guide to Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Park • Frank C. Craighead, Jr. • NATURAL HISTORY • A memoir and classic natural history of the wildlife of Jackson Hole and the Tetons by a celebrated local biologist, organized week-by-week throughout the year. (SWU168, $18.95)
	Cadillac Desert, The American West and Its Disappearing Water • Marc Reisner • NATURAL HISTORY • A definitive history of water development in the American desert -- and a now-classic chronicle of wrong-headed policies and misadventures controlling the great rivers of the West. (USW246, $18.00)
	Decade of the Wolf, Returning the Wild to Yellowstone • Douglas Smith • Gary Ferguson • NATURAL HISTORY • Biologist Smith (Yellowstone Wolf Recovery Project) and nature writer Ferguson look at the ten year's since the re-introduction of wolves to Yellowstone. (RKY90, $16.95)
	Downcanyon, A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River Through the Grand Canyon • Ann Zwinger • NATURAL HISTORY • A vivid overview of the Grand Canyon and Colorado River, from Mile 0 at Lees Ferry to Mile 278 at Grand Wash Fault. Zwinger interweaves geology, plants, animals and human history in her account. (USW11, $19.95)
	Searching For Yellowstone, Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness • Paul D. Schullery • NATURAL HISTORY • An engaging social and environmental history of Yellowstone from the Pleistocene to the present focusing on the park since its founding in 1872. Schullery has worked in Yellowstone as a ranger, a historian and the chief of cultural resources. (USW59, $19.95)
	The Grizzly Bear • Thomas McNamee • NATURAL HISTORY • A natural history of "ursus arctos horribilis" -- lyrical, well written and provocative. An appropriate introduction to the beast for anyone traveling to grizzly country. McNamee also wrote "The Return of the Wolf to Yellowstone." (BST39, $16.95)
	Travelers Guide to the Geology of the Colorado Plateau • Donald L. Baars • NATURAL HISTORY • A clearly written survey of the geology of the Four Corners region. (SWU32, $25.00)
	Windows into the Earth, The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks • Robert B. Smith • Lee J. Siegel • NATURAL HISTORY • A geologic history and tour of the northern Rockies, particularly Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. With an outstanding overview of the geologic formation of the region and 50 color photographs. (USW356, $29.95)
	A Field Guide to the Grand Canyon • Stephen Whitney • FIELD GUIDE • A compact guide to the natural history of the Grand Canyon with 71 handsome color plates, maps and illustrations. (USW06, $19.95)
	A Naturalist's Guide to Canyon Country • David Williams • Gloria Brown • FIELD GUIDE • A compact field guide to the wildlife of the high desert of the Colorado Plateau and the nine national parks of the region. Williams includes an overview of the history, geology and ecology of the high desert along with basic information on identifying common plants and animals. (USW289, $22.95)
	Field Guide to the Grizzly Bear • Lance Olsen • FIELD GUIDE • OUT OF PRINT • A brief introduction of the ecology, natural history and conservation of the grizzly, sponsored by the Great Bear Foundation. (BST38, $6.95)
	The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America • David Sibley • FIELD GUIDE • A compact, geographically-specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird. (USW418, $19.95)
	Yellowstone Wildlife, An Introduction to Familiar Species of Yellowstone Area • Pocket Naturalist • FIELD GUIDE • A handy plastic card illustrating the birds, mammals, fishes, amphibians and reptiles of Yellowstone. (RKY88, $5.95)