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Tucson, AZ: American Rock Art Research Assn. , 2007. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W photos, drawings illustrate throughout. CONDITION: NEW 2007 ARARA large paperback, first edition, no printing given. B&W photos, drawings, & charts illustrate. CONTENT: For over 6,000 years traders, hunters, and farmers visited and lived in Nine Mile Canyon in Utah. The perennial creek and springs provided year-round water for agriculture. The evidence of this long history of human habitation is a forty-mile rock gallery following Minnie Maud creek to the Green River. This corridor is one of the world's longest and most magnificent rock art panels. When the Barrett Corporation was granted permission to drill for oil and gas in Nine Mile Canyon, most of the great panels were impacted by dust and chemical from this industrial endeavor. This book seeks to save, at least via drawings and photos, what is left of this great art work. The permission to drill was… Read More

Crestline, 2013. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket Issued. Color & colorized era portraits and artwork. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2013 Crestline large paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. Short scratch on back cover. Colorized and color era portraits, artwork, sketches, early photos. CONTENT: This book depicts a continent emerging as both a bloody battleground between Native Americans and Europeans and a place where alien cultures began to mesh. This is the history they left out of the textbooks--thanks to Cormac O'Brien, the forgotten history of America will be forgotten no more. From the founding of the first permanent European settlement in North America (1565) to the bloody chaos of the British frontier in Pontiac's War (1763), this vividly written narrative spans the two centuries of American history before the Revolutionary War. These lesser known conflicts of the past are brought brilliantly to life, showing us a world of heroism,… Read More

Simon & Schuster, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Surprisingly, no illustrations. CONDITION: UNREAD 1992 Simon & Schuster hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Deckle edges. No illustrations. Introduction by Jan Morris. CONTENT: I have always had a problem with the term "lyrical" being applied to non-fiction works. I was wrong. THIS is lyrical - just not on each page. Australian novelist Keneally brings his lively imagination to bear on the American Southwest. This is a sometimes sketchy account of a midwinter swing, by car and cross-country skis, through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Keneally doesn't talk to people much, and his reactions to landscapes can be predictable: ``Maybe religion is so strong in this landscape because this is terrain which puts the human in his place.'' But as in The Playmaker and Schindler's List, history is what moves him. He offers lively capsule biographies of figures who sum up an impulse, an era, a… Read More

Utah: Utah Museum of Natural History, 1995. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Laurel Casjens color photos illustrate. CONDITION: NEW (shrink-wrapped) 1995 University of Utah Press soft cover, assumed first printing. Detailed color photos by Laurel Casjens. CONTENT: From approximately AD 1 to 1300, the people we now refer to as Anasazi inhabited parts of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Their impressive and enigmatic rock art and architectural ruins are well known, but the arid Four Corners climate has also preserved such artifacts as loomed clothes, intricate baskets, and sandals. This book is the most comprehensive volume on Anasazi sandals and weaving technique. Three hundred twelve examples from the extensive holdings at the Utah Museum of Natural History demonstrate the Anasazi genius as skilled textile artists. These examples incorporate colorful geometric patterns and reveal elaborate manipulations of warp and weft. Within the relatively rigid requirements… Read More