The Correspondence of Sarah Peterson Lund to Her Missionary Husband, 1872-1894
Complete collection of letters from Sanie Lund to her missionary husband, 1872-1894, showing the impact of Latter-day Saint missionization on wives and children.
Winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry "When I wake I'm in ninth grade again," begins "Reunion," the first poem in Caleb Nolen's debut collection Afterlight. These haunting, tender poems revisit the fraught adolescence of a group of boys growing up in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Told through the voice of one of the boys who left ......
A powerful meditation on the art of seeing A collaboration between English professor and photographer W. Scott Olsen and Tomasz Trzebiatowski, founder of Frames magazine, Reading Frames gathers sixty-nine photographs first featured in Frames' digital companion. Olsen's essays interrogate the compositional and aesthetic elements of the ......
A panoramic view of research on the first peoples of the Southwest The North American Southwest looms large in American archaeology, well known for the agricultural societies that dominated its austere landscape in later times. However, the traces of its earliest occupants, Native American ancestors who shared the ancient landscape with mammoth ......
New Edition! In 1879, 230 settlers in southwestern Utah heeded the call from leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to pull up stakes and move to the distant San Juan country of southeastern Utah. Their year-long journey became one of the most extraordinary wagon trips ever undertaken in North America, their trail one of ......
Household archaeology and the unraveling of Classic Maya power The Classic Maya collapse (ca. CE 800) in Mesoamerica has been the focus of much scholarly debate over the last century. In Classic Maya Social Inequality, Networks, and Collapse at Dos Pilas, Peten, Guatemala, Joel W. Palka further explores possible causes of the collapse and breaks ......
While the National Park Service is widely known, far fewer Americans are familiar with the Bureau of Land Management's vast National Conservation Lands--thirty-seven million acres spanning eleven western states and Alaska. Lonesome Landscapes is the first comprehensive history of this system from public domain lands to the designation of national ......
An Archaeoethnography of Geoglyphs in Northern Chile
An anthropological and narrative exploration of ancient llama caravans and their associated geoglyphs in the Chilean Atacama Desert Caravan Trails of Tamentica is a vivid exploration of ancient Andean llama caravans and their associated geoglyphs-ground drawings-in the Chilean Atacama Desert. In retracing the paths of caravans and documenting ......
