A Natural and Cultural History of North Warner Valley, Oregon
This volume tracks 13,000 years of environmental and cultural change in North Warner Valley-part of the Oregon Desert that has largely escaped researchers' attention. The authors present a decade of fieldwork and laboratory analyses that reveal a record of human activity that waxed and waned with local and regional environmental and social change. ......
The Basketmaker presence in southern Utah has traditionally been viewed as peripheral to developments originating in the Four Corners region. Far Western Basketmaker Beginnings offers an entirely new and provocative perspective-that the origins of farming on the northern Colorado Plateau are instead found far to the west along Kanab Creek. This ......
Analytical Approaches to Reconstructing Occupation History
Describing the nature and meaning of artifact spatial patterning can be highly subjective, yet many patterns can be quantified to create general models that are comparable across time periods and geographic space. The authors employ various techniques in this endeavor, including large sample sizes, model-driven analyses of the ethnographic record, ......
Polygamy, Kinship, and Wealth in Wyoming's Bighorn Basin
More than three hundred Latter-day Saint settlements were founded by LDS Church President Brigham Young. Colonization-often outside of Utah-continued under the next three LDS Church presidents, fueled by Utah's overpopulation relative to its arable, productive land. In this book, John Gary Maxwell takes a detailed look at the Bighorn Basin ......
Inside this debut collection, girlhood's dangers echo, transmuted, in the poet's fears for her son. A body just discovering the vastness of "want's new acreage" is humbled by chronic illness. Epithalamion turns elegy. But this world that so often seems capricious in its cruelty also shelters apple orchards, glass museums, schoolchildren, ......
Ethnographic Observations and Archaeological Interpretations
What are the connections between past and present peoples in the U.S. Southwest and Northwest Mexico? How were the ancient societies that occupied this landscape interconnected? Contributors leverage diverse source materials rooted in classic ethnography, oral tradition, and historical documents to offer novel answers to these questions. Running ......
Many people appreciate the stunning vistas of the Great Basin desert; understanding the region's geological past can provide a deeper way to know and admire this landscape. In The Great Basin Seafloor, Frank DeCourten immerses readers in a time when the Basin was covered by a vast ocean in which volcanoes exploded and sea life flourished. ......
120th Anniversary edition with three new appendices: "Official Table of Casualties"; "Boer Prisoner of War Camps in St. Helena, Ceylon, India and Bermuda"; and "Boer and African Deaths in the British Concentration Camps;" 240 new footnotes, 110 photographs and 2 maps. A new edition of Arthur Conan-Doyle's classic account of the Second ......
