In 1956, Congress passed legislation that provided authorization and funds for emergency research to be conducted in Glen Canyon in response to the threat of losses posted by the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona. For eight years, scientists worked against the clock to record the archaeology, geology, history, and ......
Utah's economy is booming, but the number of poor has remained fairly constant, with many of the newly created jobs going to transplants from out of state. On Being Poor in Utah presents a portrait of Utah's poor and the issues surrounding poverty in the state. It provides a detailed statistical analysis of poverty's causes, varying concentrations ......
A Brief History and Guide to Research - Geschichte Altamerika
Outlines the enormously long and complex cultural history of Mesoamerica, as well as the Andean continuum. It combines an overview of pre-Columbian historical events and situations with a consideration of important research problems and efforts and places the last flowering of indigenous complex civizations within their respective geographic and ......
Utah's Escalante country: a vast jigsaw puzzle of desert canyons, draws, defiles, gorges, slots, and washes demarcating upland expanses of slickrock, benches, and ridges, above which stand towers, pinnacles, and peaks. Inhabited for centuries by the ancient Puebloans and now managed primarily by various federal agencies, it is a land of stark ......
One of the world's foremost writers of the mountaineering essay-his writings are finely wrought expressions of the transcendental joy he found in the mountains-John Muir also founded the Sierra Club in 1892 as a way of supporting his belief that Americans must preserve national parks throughout the country in order that future generations might be ......
Tall, Tangled, and True Tales of the Mountain Men, 1805-1850
The early plans for Mount Rushmore called for blasting heroic likenesses of mountain men--Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, and John Colter--into the solid mountain granite of South Dakota. Readers of this colorful volume will see the heroics and the brutally rugged individualism that made these fur trappers candidates for legend and infamy. The accounts ......
Following the trail of some of America's famous nature writers -- including Fitz Hugh Ludlow, John Muir, Mary Austin, Jack Kerouac, and Gary Snyder -- Robertson uses journal writing, literary criticism, and photography as he seeks a secret at the heart of the universe. In his stories about these writers' mountain adventures and his own excursions, ......
The Codice de Santa Maria Asuncion, one of the most comprehensive native census pictoral manuscripts that has survived from central Mexico, provides a wealth of information on native rural life, social structure, settlement patterns, land tenure, household composition, political and economic organization, and cultural ecology and is one of a ......
Explores the popular epic of Arabic storytelling by focusing on a particular example, The Life Story of 'Antar, purporting to recount the life of the famous pre-Islamic Arab poet and warrior. Considers the poem in the context of Arabic oral tradition and the storytelling of other Islamic peoples, in
