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MESA VERDE, ARCHES & CANYONLANDS
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Cadillac Desert, The American West and Its Disappearing Water
• Marc Reisner
NATURAL HISTORY •
1993 •
PAPER
• 582 PAGES
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. Originally published in 1986, the book was named by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best works of 20th-century non-fiction.
(USW246, $18.00) |
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Made in the Southwest: A Shopper's Guide to the Region's Best Native American, Hispanic and Western Craft Traditions
• Laura Morelli
GUIDEBOOK •
2006 •
PAPER
• 208 PAGES
A shopper's guide to all that is handmade and beautiful in the Southwest's Hispanic, Native American and Western traditions, by writer and art historian Laura Morelli. With a state-by-state guide to artisans and stores and 80 color illustrations.
(SWU209, $24.95) |
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The Professor's House
• Willa Cather
LITERATURE •
1990 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
Cather's accomplished 1925 novel includes a story-within-a-story of explorer Tom Outland, a character modeled after Richard Wetherill, the rancher who brought the Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde (called Blue Mesa in the novel) to the world's attention. She writes: "I saw a little city of stone, asleep. It was as still as a sculpture…looking down into the canyon with the calmness of eternity…I knew at once that I had come upon the city of some extinct civilization, hidden away in this inaccessible mesa for centuries."
(SWU258, $15.00) |
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Travelers Guide to the Geology of the Colorado Plateau
• Donald L. Baars
NATURAL HISTORY •
2002 •
PAPER
• 296 PAGES
An outstanding survey of geology of the canyonlands of the four corners region. Baars, a professor of geology and guide, includes a geologic account of a rafting trip down the Grand Canyon.
(SWU32, $25.00) |
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