Anthropologist Kevin Jones takes the reader on a journey into the world of the Ache, hunter-gatherers of the deep jungles of Paraguay. The Ache were among the last tribal peoples to come into peaceful contact with the outside world, with some bands leaving the forest only in the late 1970s. Jones was fortunate to live among them while conducting ......
The 220 letters selected for this book offer a fresh and intimate encounter with Juanita Brooks, one of the most influential historians of Utah and the Mormons. Born and raised in the small and remote agricultural village of Bunkerville, Nevada, Brooks lived most most of her life in St. George Utah and rose to prominence following the 1950 ......
Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was a historian, critic, editor, professor, political commentator, and conservationist, and above all a writer of comprehensive skill. As a contributor for more than thirty years to Harper's and other magazines, he was known for his forceful opinions. His essays were often brash and opinionated and kept him in the public ......
Once again cast in the companionable style of journal entries and notes that readers enjoyed in Lueders's 1977 creative nonfiction classic The Clam Lake Papers, this new investigation into language and ways of knowing follows the author's move from the north woods of Wisconsin to the Intermountain West of Utah. The Salt Lake Papers is divided ......
Here is a look at the life and legacy of an irrepressible innovator. Pushing against both social convention and technological boundaries, L.L. Nunn left enduring marks on economic and social history, labor development, and, educational reform. The Saga of Lucien L. Nunn and Deep Springs College is a bold portrayal of this progressive-era ......
Writer Wallace Stegner once wrote that ""No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered."" This collection celebrates one of America's most loved places, Rocky Mountain National Park, which marks its 100th birthday in 2015. Engagement with place and the events that loom large in park history are the underlying themes that ......
A Celebrated Journey Down the Whitewater Rapids of the Grand Canyon
The Colorado River through the Grand Canyon has a well-deserved reputation for whitewater- the feature that draws many boaters to the raging torrent amidst its spectacular chasms. This guide offers a literary guide down the river, through each rapid.
In The Rival, Sara Wallace takes her readers on an intimate journey through a woman's solitary, surreal rural childhood and her brutal, sexually fraught first marriage to the conflicted redemption she finds in motherhood and a second chance at love. In this debut poetry collection, Wallace reveals how closely emotional devastation and ......
The Impact of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe on the Pueblos of the Rio Grande, 1880-1930
The history of the railroad conquest of the West is well known, but the impact of western railroads on Native Americans has largely been ignored. Richard Frost examines the profound effects that the coming of trains had on Pueblo Indians in New Mexico's Rio Grande Valley. The arrival of the railroad was a social and cultural tsunami. It destroyed ......
