Lily Nakai and her family lived in Southern California, where sometimes she and a friend dreamt of climbing the Hollywood sign that lit the night. At age ten, after believing that her family was simply going on a camping trip, she found herself living in a tar-papered barrack, gazing out instead at the nightly searchlight. She wondered if anything ......
The red rock canyon country of southeastern Utah and northeastern Arizona is one of the most isolated, wild, and beautiful regions of North America. Europeans and Americans over time have mostly avoided, disdained, or ignored it. Wrecks of Human Ambition illustrates how this landscape undercut notions and expectations of good, productive land held ......
The Remarkable Sobaipuri-O'odham Victory over the Apaches and Their Allies
In 1698, the Apache and their allies attacked a sleeping Sobaipuri- O'odham village on the San Pedro River at the northern edge of New Spain, now in southern Arizona. This book, about one of the most important southwestern battles of the era in this region, reads like a mystery. At the same time, it addresses in a scholarly fashion the ......
Log cabins and houses are more than historical curiosities. Throughout the nineteenth century, they were symbols of American frontier ingenuity. Their images were used in political campaigns and on commercial products to represent trustworthiness and quality. When new building techniques were developed, however, they became representatives of the ......
Log cabins and houses are more than historical curiosities. Throughout the nineteenth century, they were symbols of American frontier ingenuity. Their images were used in political campaigns and on commercial products to represent trustworthiness and quality. When new building techniques were developed, however, they became representatives of the ......
Dispatches from the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Organized as a series of monthly journal entries, Morning Comes to Elk Mountain is Lantz's response to ten years of exploring the rough and unexpected beauty of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. A combination of memoir, natural history, Native American history, and geology, this book is enriched by 20 color photos and a map to appeal to the ......
Tracking the Texas Rangers: The Twentieth Century is an anthology of fifteen previously published articles and chapter excerpts covering key topics of the Texas Rangers during the twentieth century. The task of determining the role of the Rangers as the state evolved and what they actually accomplished for the benefit of the state is a difficult ......
Jacob Hamblin has long been one of the most enigmatic figures in Mormon history. In this defining biography, Todd Compton reconstructs the fascinating life of the frontiersman, coloniser, missionary to the Indians, and explorer of the American West. With impeccable attention to detail, Compton examines and disentangles many of the myths and ......
The Rise of Interpretation in the First National Park
Yellowstone has undergone a number of transitions in the 140 years since its national park designation in 1872. The period from the late 1930s to the early 1970s marked one of the most significant as the Park Service shifted focus from mere public recreation to interpretation and education. The vast wilderness and numerous awe-inspiring natural ......
