Product Description: In 1935, during the wind-swept years of the Dust Bowl, three people went missing on separate occasions in the rugged canyon country of southeastern Utah, a place “wild, desolate, mysterious.” A thirteen-year old girl, Lucy Garrett, was tricked into heading west with the man who had murdered her father under the pretense of reuniting with him...read more

Product Description: Most people who are familiar with the Painted Desert of northeastern Arizona know it only from having pulled off at the Petrified Forest exit on Interstate 40. If they happen to come by it at midday, as most do, they find a landscape drained of color and flattened under the direct sunlight...read more

Product Description: Nestled at the bottom of Grand Canyon and accessible only by foot, mule, or boat, Phantom Ranch maintains a sense of the past like few places on Earth, slowing the pace of its visitors' lives. Phantom Ranch tells the story of the ranch, touching on its history, architecture, natural environment, and the people who live there...read more

Product Description: The Medicine Bow Mountain range is one of the most prominent features of the otherwise horizontal Wyoming country.

All writers get stuck looking for the right word. Noticing that this was an acute problem for writers in the West because standard thesauruses face east, Scott Thybony started a file of western words. Sorting through spoken and written texts, he looked, as he puts it, for 'grounded talk', 'place-linked words, both rooted and wind-blown'. He ended up with a list of western place names, cowboyisms, American Indian words on permanent loan, Spanish terms, a sprinkling of Arabic, some scientific terms, and an assortment of random coinings, borrowings, and outright expropriations. Soon this evolved from a computer file to the book he calls Dry Rivers and Standing Rocks and describes as 'something resembling a thesaurus of western geography'. This book is full of information but it's not really a reference book. It reads like poetry. But you don't need to be a writer to appreciate it. Readers, teachers, hikers, cartographers, even crossword puzzlers will love this book. Neither scholarly nor comprehensive, it's a collection to make you think. It contains paired words like standing rock, grafts like snaggletooth, loners like hoodoo. (view table of contents)

Explore some of the Southwest's greatest scenic marvels. A 16-page portfolio highlights the diversity of plants and animals that live in canyon country.

Product Description: In Navajo country, where the land is thick with legends and forgotten histories, a writer sets out to find a place that no longer exists except on a few old maps: Burntwater. The story opens when two friends get stuck in a remote pocket of the desert as a winter storm moves in...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Photographs and text depict the Rocky Mountains from the southern Rockies in New Mexico to the northernmost part of the range in British Columbia

Photographs depict rock carvings and paintings created by the ancestors of today's Native Americans

Product Description: More than four million people visit the Grand Canyon National Park every year, but most visitors choose not to stray beyond the heavily visited trails or to venture below the Canyon's rims.The rim trails and the routes to the inner canyon offer solitude and expose beauty vastly different from what can be seeing from the developed areas of the Rims...read more

Product Description: Describes what life was like for the people who built this major Puebloan community on the banks of the Animas River in northern New Mexico. Photos by George H. H. Huey.

Photographs show the deserts, canyons, forests, mountains, rivers, lakes, flora, and fauna of the Grand Canyon State

Product Description: Re-live military life through the eyes of African-American buffalo soldiers of H Troop, 10th United States Cavalry, stationed at Fort Davis, Texas, after the Civil War. Photos by George H. H. Huey.