River of Traps: A New Mexico Mountain Life, Paperback - William DeBuys

Reducere. New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo mountains are a place where two cultures -- Hispanic and Anglo -- meet. They're also the place where three men meet: ...

Reducere. First published in 1985, William deBuys's Enchantment and Exploitation has become a New Mexico classic. It offers a complete account of the relatio...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gregory McNameeFor sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ec...

You, the hero, must brave the city of Khare, where every doorway or alley conceals sudden danger. You will need all your wits about you to avoid th...

Mountain Time, a thoughtful and often moving work, is not only about Yellowstone as a superb sample of American wildness, . . . but also about a ma...

The literature on Our Lady of Guadalupe dominates the study of shrines and religious practices in Mexico. But there is much more to the story of sh...

Reducere. DescriptionThis portrait of Sandia, the mountain backdrop that dwarfs Albuquerque's sprawl, offers a sense of place through the eyes of a photograp...

Reducere. Once upon a time in the Mora Valley of northern New Mexico there lived a farmer named Ponciano Gutiérrez. On a trip through the mountains he was ta...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William G. DegenhardtAuthor: Charles W. PainterAuthor: Andrew H. PriceAmphibians and reptiles thrive in New Mexico's many l...

Reducere. Alice Bullock says, "We can't go back." Thomas Wolfe said it and has been quoted ever since. Yet it bears repetition, especially today and in refer...

Reducere. DescriptionWith limited resources to contextualize masculinity in colonial Mexico, film, literature, and social history perpetuate the stereotype a...

Reducere. An award-winning author's quest to find and understand a creature as rare and enigmatic as any on Earth In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team...

In this exploration of how people lived and died in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century New Mexico, Martina Will de Chaparro weaves together the st...

Reducere. Nationally recognized River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative has published a host of new and significant voices in creative nonfiction--inc...

Reducere. Jennie Boyd Bull's memoir weaves a life from her Southern roots into the center of some of the most liberating movements of the past century. Raise...

Reducere. Just before starting second grade, Jim Kristofic moved from Pittsburgh across the country to Ganado, Arizona, when his mother took a job at a hospi...

Reducere. Organized geographically by county and accompanied by site maps and photographs, this guide describes where to go and what you'll find there.

Reducere. Eliseo Torres, known as 'Cheo', grew up in the Corpus Christi area of Texas and knew, firsthand, the Mexican folk healing practised in his home and...

Reducere. Description"Carol Merrill's tribute to Georgia O'Keeffe is poems in the shape of finely rendered sketches, some of them even paintings. These intim...

Reducere. With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering po...

Reducere. DescriptionThis classic hiking guide to Albuquerque's Sandia Mountain is completely updated with color photographs, up-to-date trail descriptions, ...

The history of emotions is a new approach to social history, and this book is the first in English to systematically examine emotions in Colonial M...

Reducere. After dark in a Mexican border town, a father holds open a hole in a wire fence as his wife and two small boys crawl through.So begins life in the ...

Reducere. Storytelling has been a vital and vivid tradition in Apache life. Coyote tales, the creation legend and stories of historic battles with Comanche a...

Reducere. New Mexico has the 4th highest bird diversity of any state in the U.S. with nearly 550 species documented within its borders including over 300 spe...

Reducere. From his New Mexico mountain home, award-winning author Stanley Crawford writes about growing garlic and selling it. The book is a favourite not on...

Reducere. This moving novel of pioneer life in Arizona has become a classic. Based on the life of the author's mother, it overturns every stereotype of weste...

Reducere. Georgia O'Keeffe remains an icon, continuing to inspire generations to break barriers and embrace the natural world in both art and life. Featuring...

Miracles, signs of divine presence and intervention, have been esteemed by Christians, especially Catholic Christians, as central to religious beli...

Reducere. In the heart of the city of Phoenix, Arizona, sits the natural wonder of South Mountain Park and Preserve. It is an oasis of mountain terrain and d...

Reducere. Welcome back to Virgin River with the books that inspired the hit Netflix series... John "Preacher" Middleton is closing Jack's Bar when a woman an...

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading By the golden age of the mount...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Again he turned his head, and...

Reducere. DescriptionInternationally renowned photographer Lucian Niemeyer and National Park Service historian Art G mez have combined talents in this stunni...

Reducere. Based on recorded interviews and journal entries this major biography of Cecil Paul (Wa'xaid) is a resounding and timely saga featuring the trials,...

Reducere. Frida Kahlo is probably the most idolized artist of her time. At the root of the scholarly speculation and pop-culture paraphernalia lies Frida Kah...

Reducere. The Modern Day Survival Primer For Solving Modern Day Survival Problems! This book will teach you the techniques to not just survive, but to use in...

Reducere. Welcome back to Virgin River with the books that inspired the hit Netflix series... John "Preacher" Middleton is closing Jack's Bar when a woman an...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Again he turned hi...

Reducere. The Powder River country of what is now north central Wyoming was one of the most resource-rich regions of the northern plains in the nineteenth ce...

Reducere. Since 1970, Mr. Streit has been New Mexico's foremost fly fishing authority and professional guide. He's developed many fly patterns used throughou...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Way to Rainy Mountain recalls the journey of Tai-me, the sacred Sun Dance doll, and of Tai-me's people in three unique voices: the l...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading To possess and develop western North America became...

Reducere. Filled with the history, geography, sociology and anthropology this 2nd revised edition contains more than 7000 names of features throughout the st...