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In 1965, soil and climatic studies indicated that the Santa Ynez and Santa Maria valleys of Santa Barbara County, California, offered suitable conditions for growing high-quality wine grapes. Thus was launched a revival of the area's two-centuries-old wine industry that by 1995 made Santa Barbara County an internationally prominent wine region.Salud!traces the evolution of Santa Barbara viticulture in the larger context of California's history and economy, offering insight into one of the state's most important industries. California has produced wine since Spanish missionaries first planted grapes to make sacramental wines, but it was not until the late twentieth century that changing consumer tastes and a flourishing national economy created the conditions that led to the state's wine boom. Historian Victor W. Geraci uses the Santa Barbara wine industry as a case study to analyze the history and evolution of American viticulture from its obscure colonial beginnings to its current international acclaim. As elsewhere in the state, Santa Barbara County vintners faced the multiple challenges of selecting grape varieties appropriate to their unique conditions, protecting their crops from disease and insects, developing local wineries, and of marketing their products in a highly competitive national and international market. Geraci gives careful attention to all the details of this production: agriculture, science, and technology; capitalization and investment; land-use issues; politics; the specter posed by the behemoth Napa and multinational wine corporations; and the social and personal consequences of creating and supporting an industry vulnerable to so many natural and economic crises. His extensive research includes interviews with many industry professionals. California is today one of the world's major wine producers, and Santa Barbara County contributes significantly to the volume and renowned quality of this wine production.Salud!offers a highly engaging overview of an industry in which the ancient romance of wine too often obscures a complex and diverse modern vintibusiness that for better, and sometimes for worse, has shaped the regions it dominates.

Coronado National Memorial explores forgotten pathways through Montezuma Canyon in southeastern Arizona, and provides an essential history of the southern Huachuca Mountains. This is a magical place that shaped the region and two countries, the United States and Mexico. Its history dates back to the expedition led by Conquistador Francisco V?squez de Coronado in 1540, a mere forty-eight years after Columbus' first voyage. Before that time Native Americans occupied the land, later to be joined by Spanish and Mexican period miners and ranchers, prospecting entrepreneurs, missionaries, and homesteaders.Sanchez is the foremost historian of the area, and he shifts through and decodes a number of key Spanish and English language documents from different archives that tell the story of an historical drama of epic proportions. He combines the regional and the global, starting with the prehistory of the area. He covers Spanish colonial contact, settlement missions, the Mexican Territorial period, land grants, and the ultimate formation of the international border that set the stage for the creation of the Coronado National Memorial in 1952.Much has been written about southwestern Arizona and northeastern Sonora, and in many ways this book complements those efforts and deliversdetails about the region's colorful past.

This is a different kind of economics book. Elliott Parker uses his expertise from doing research on the East Asian fiscal crisis to give profound insights into what happened and how to avoid future catastrophes. Kate Marshall personalizes it by providing vignettes of what it was actually like to be in the trenches and fighting the inevitable political battles that came up.

California's history is rich and diverse, with numerous fascinating stories hidden in its past. Otterstrom describes an intricately woven tapestry of interrelated people who were contributing creators of a wide variety of prosperous northern California environs. He uncovers the processes that converted this sleepy post-Mexican outpost into a focal point of nearly hyperactive youthful growth.

Takes readers on a journey through the history of Glacier National Park, beginning over a billion years ago from the formation of the Belt Sea, to the present day climate-changing extinction of the very glaciers that sculpted most of the wonders of its landscapes.

Proposes a radical new direction for ecopoetics and deploys it in relation to four major American poets. This book presents applications of unnatural ecopoetics in poetic environments, ones that do not engage with traditional ideas of nature and would otherwise remain outside the scope of ecocritical and ecopoetic studies.

With over 24,000 copies in print, this bestselling book tells how the Paiutes survived in the harsh Nevada climate. Chronicling food-gathering methods, basket weaving, hunting, skinning, and working with rabbit skins, this book serves as an invaluable reference on early Paiute culture.

The Roosevelt elk populate the parks along California's north coast and comprise the largest land mammals in the parks. In a study spanning more than twenty years, Weckerly made key observations and conducted various investigations under a multitude of ecological conditions. Few authors have dedicated this much time and effort into a single research area.

A collection of loosely connected short stories set during the early stages of the Iraq War (2004 and 2005). The stories rotate from battles with insurgents and the drudgery of the war machine in Iraq to Nevada, where characters are either preparing for war, escaping it during their leave, or returning home having seen what they've seen.

Throughout history, the Latinx population has contributed substantially to Nevada's mining, railroad, farming, ranching, and tourism industries. Latinos in Nevada provides a comprehensive analysis of this fastest-growing and diverse ethnic group, exploring the impact of the Hispanic/Latinx population on the Silver State in the past, present, and future.

Focuses on the history of agricultural water use of the Rio Grande in Colorado's San Luis Valley. After surveying the practices of early farmers in the region, David Stiller focuses on the impacts of Euro-American settlement and the ways these new agrarians endeavored to control the river.

In this edgy and dramatic adventure story, modern-day wildlands firefighters and cattle rustlers struggle for both physical and emotional survival in a changing Western landscape. Braiding the stories of firefighters and a grandmother laundromat custodian-turned cattle rustler, this is a fiery ride through small towns of Nevada and Montana.

In this engaging book, Kenneth Scambray surveys the lives and contributions of Italian immigrants in thirteen western states. He covers a variety of topics, including the economic, political, and cultural contributions made by Italians; and the efforts to preserve Italian culture and to restore connections to their ancestral identity.

Offers readers a personal, inside view into the lives of six diverse ranching families and the land that shapes their days and nights. This book features stories of what happens when parents, children, work, and nature come together for a lifetime of commitment. It is suitable for those who love the West.

Examines William Sharon's complex nature and the turbulent times in which he flourished. This biography also explores the broader historical context of his career - the complex business relationships between San Francisco and the booming gold and silver mining camps of the Far West, and the machinations of rampant Gilded Age capitalism.

This is an account of the growth of Las Vegas, the impact of politics and war, and the struggle to establish a diverse economy. Aspects of city building, creation of infrastructure and transportation, the struggle to obtain a reliable source of water, and the function of cultural, educational and religious institutions are all given consideration.

The grazing rights battle between Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and the federal government, resulting in an armed standoff, garnered international media attention in 2014. This book places the Bundy conflict into the larger context of the Sagebrush Rebellion and the long struggle over the use of federal public lands in the American West.

Drawing from his San Joaquin Valley childhood, a career devoted to studying the West, and interviews with a range of ethnically diverse people, Bergen presents an intimate portrait of an Old West in conflict with the New, and traces the way traditional values sometimes clash with and at other times adjust to a changing world.

Investigates the natural and physical environments of seven diverse National Park Service sites in the American West and how they influence emotions about historical conflict and national identity. Chapters center around the region's diverse inhabitants and the variously traumatic histories these groups endured.

Offers a rich and complex exploration of the history of Basque immigration to the rangelands of Nevada and the interior West. The book looks critically at the Basque sheepherders in the American West and more broadly at the modern history of American foreign relations with Spain after the Second World War.

Tells the story of how the Cahuilla nations have used self-reliance and determination to maintain their culture and independence against threats past and present. From California's ""war of extermination"" to today's challenges, Gordon shows that successful responses have depended on challenging non-natives' assumptions and misconceptions.

John Wesley Powell's 1869 expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers and through the Grand Canyon continues to be one of the most celebrated adventures in American history. For nearly twenty years Lago has researched the Powell expedition. Here he offers a feast of new and important material about the river trip, that will significantly rewrite the story of Powell's famous expedition.

Presents a radical reinterpretation of environmental history set in the heartland of America. In an excellent model of narrative-based scholarship, this book dynamically reimagines American environmentalism across generations of writers, artists, and scientists.

Analyses media coverage, political speeches, films, and television shows to demonstrate the role that language and symbolism have played in framing the US health care debate, shaping policy making, and influencing public perceptions of problems in the health care system.

In 1991, Nevada's Commission for Cultural Affairs was created to oversee the preservation of the state's historic buildings and the conversion of the best of them for use as cultural centers. This book highlights 90 of these buildings, describing them in the context of the state's history and the character of the people who created and used them.

Between 1914 and 1945, two world wars and the turbulent interwar years had a profound impact on Basque society, affecting even remote villages and rural farmers. This book examines the impact of war and occupation on four Basque communities in the French commune of Xiberoa.

Demonstrates how Basque nationalism was shaped by the many forms and historical phases of the Spanish state. This book offers a comparative discussion of Basque, Catalan, Scottish, Flemish, and Quebecois nationalist movements, suggesting that nationalism in Basque Country, is in many ways similar to nationalism in other industrialized democracies.

Features characters which range from the enigmatic Mr K, who runs a reality television show and once led an escape from a Korean POW camp, to the doomed Billy Debecki, who regains his dignity in the last minutes of his life by remembering that he once willingly risked his life to save an enemy soldier.

A comprehensive history of the Nevada civilian conservation corps (ccc), a program designed to help the nation get back on its feet, and of the "boys" who did so much to restore Nevada's lands and resources - and who in the process became men. This book also includes period photographs depicting the Nevada ccc and its activities.

An examination of the cartoons that helped shape American comprehension of the Atomic Age