In this anthology, Mark Raab and Terry Jones present a series of research articles that dispel lingering mythologies about California's prehistory. They begin with the most enduring notion - that of an essentially stable, benign climate - presenting evidence that prehistoric climate flux played a significant role in culture change. From there, ......
Get out of town and out of your car; pay attention to the natural world around you. The experience can be unforgettable. That simple message is the theme of this love letter to the wild American West. Howard L Smith's enthusiastic accounts of his trailside adventures will make you want to take the day off and enjoy your own harmony with the ......
Most Utahns are familiar with the Uinta Mountains, but few realize that the range has twenty-one peaks above 13,000 feet, some of them still unnamed. The elevation, challenging terrain and weather, solitude, and beautiful setting in Utah's largest wilderness area make climbing these peaks a particularly rewarding experience. Better yet, in the ......
Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914
Shows that Western suffrage came about as the result of the unsettled state of regional politics, the complex nature of Western race relations, broad alliances between suffragists and farmer-labor-progressive reformers, and sophisticated activism by Western women. This book highlights suffrage racism and elitism as major problems for the movement.
Internationally acclaimed for his portraits of powerful and accomplished people and women of great beauty, Richard Avedon was one of the 20th century's greatest photographers - but perhaps not the most obvious choice to create a portrait of ordinary people of the American West. Yet in 1979, the Amon Carter Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, daringly ......
In The Kachina and the Cross, Carroll Riley weaves elements of archaeology, anthropology, and history to tell a dramatic story of conflict between the Pueblo Indians and Franciscan missionaries in the seventeenth-century Spanish colony of New Mexico. Until now, histories of the early Southwest have tended to concentrate on the Spanish presence, ......
Gays and Lesbians, Christian Conservatives, and Everyday Hostilities
The Pacific Northwest of America is known for its diverse, unusual politics. There are thriving gay and lesbian communities and populations of staunchly conservative Christians. Both groups wield political power. How do members of these groups perceive the political climates that surround them?
Gays and Lesbians, Christian Conservatives, and Everyday Hostilities
The Pacific Northwest of America is known for its diverse, unusual politics. There are thriving gay and lesbian communities and populations of staunchly conservative Christians. Both groups wield political power. How do members of these groups perceive the political climates that surround them?
