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Features previously unpublished photographs of Utah's magnificent rock art by long-time rock art researcher Layne Miller and essays by former Utah state archaeologist Kevin Jones. Miller's photographs include many rare and relatively unknown panels and represent a lifetime of work by someone intimately familiar with the Colorado Plateau.

Over a 40-year period, Craig Johnson collected data on chipped stone tools from nearly 200 occupations along the Missouri River in the Dakotas. This book integrates those data with central place foraging theory and exchange models to arrive at broad conclusions supporting archaeological theory.

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. Serving as a biography of her interactions with her contemporaries, this selection of letters provides a new perspective on Brooks's personality and growth as a scholar.

The first full account of the journey and discoveries of an archaeological expedition into the American Southwest. In 1931 a group from Harvard University's Peabody Museum accomplished something that had not previously been attempted - a four-hundred-mile horseback survey of prehistoric sites through some of the West's most rugged terrain.

Debunks the myths that have contributed to the often polarized character of contemporary discussions of the public lands in the United States. Recounting numerous episodes throughout American history, John Leshy demonstrates how public lands have generally served to unify the country, not divide it.

Studies of the interactions between Mormons and the natural environment are few. This volume applies the perspectives of environmental history to Mormonism, providing both a scholarly introduction to Mormon environmental history and a spur for historians to consider the role of nature in the Mormon past.

Chronicles the work of the 10,000 men who served at Utah's 116 Civilian Conservation Corps camps. With facts and anecdotes drawn from camp newspapers, government files, interviews, letters, and other sources, he situates the CCC within the political climate and details not only the projects but also the day-to-day aspects of camp life.

In this autobiography, Viola Burnette braids the history of the Lakota people with the story of her own life as an Iyeska, or mixed-race Indian. Bringing together her years growing up on a reservation, her work as a lawyer for Native peoples, and her woman's perspective, she draws the reader into an intelligent and intimate conversation.

Presents a diverse collection of personal stories that describe encounters with the remaining wild creatures of the American West and critical essays that reveal wildlife's essential place in western landscapes. These narratives expose the complex challenges faced by wild animals and those devoted to understanding them.

In this creative memoir, Homer McCarty adopts the voice of seven-year-old Buck to recollect his own life growing up in southern Utah Territory in the late 1800s. Although Buck's reflections are necessarily imprecise - gathered from fragments of memory and then embellished freely - the stories he tells are an honest look at life on the frontier.

Argues that, for over a century, southwestern archaeology got the history of the ancient Southwest wrong. Instead, Steve Lekson advocates an entirely new approach - one that separates archaeological thought in the Southwest from its anthropological home and moves to more historical ways of thinking.

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.

Covers recent Paleoamerican research and site excavations from Patagonia to Canada. Contributors discuss the peopling of the Americas, early American assemblages, lifeways, and regional differences. Many scholars present current data previously unavailable in English.

The California coastline has long been of interest to archaeologists. This book directs attention to the largely ignored Pecho Coast, a rugged, 20 km long peninsula between Morro Bay and Pismo Beach. Jones and Codding bring together extensive contract work and field school studies, shedding new light on the region's early inhabitants.

Leonard Arrington is considered by many the foremost twentieth-century historian of Mormonism. But Arrington's career was not without controversy. Gregory Prince takes an in-depth look at this respected historian and, in telling his story, gives readers insight into the workings of the LDS Church in the late twentieth century.

In 1935, three people went missing on separate occasions in the rugged canyon country of southeastern Utah. Intrigued by this unusual string of coincidental disappearances, Scott Thybony set out to learn what happened. His investigations took him from Island in the Sky to Skeleton Mesa, from Texas to Tucson, and from the Green River to the Red.

Presents a collection of studies on the ancient games of indigenous peoples of North America. The authors, all archaeologists, muster evidence from artifacts, archaeological features, ethnography, ethnohistory, and to a lesser extent linguistics and folklore. Chapters sometimes centre on a particular game or sometimes on a specific prehistoric society and its games.

Robert Smithson's earthwork, Spiral Jetty is located on the northern shores of Utah's Great Salt Lake. The Spiral Jetty Encyclo draws on Smithson's writings for encyclopaedic entries that bring to light the context of the earthwork and Smithson's many points of reference in creating it.

Details the efforts of one of America's most under appreciated public servants. In 1934, Franklin D. Roosevelt invited Marriner S. Eccles, a Mormon from Utah, to join his administration. Presenting the first comprehensive and independent analysis of Eccles's influential career, Jumping the Abyss wrestles with economic issues that remain relevant today.

Competitive technology for sourcing renewable energy, marketplace readiness, and pressures from climate change all signal that the fossil fuel era is coming to an end. This book explains the alternatives and suggests when and how change will occur. Employing a global perspective, it provides recommendations on policies and strategies to make a smooth and wholesale transition to renewables.

Hidden away in the canyons of a highly restricted military base on the edge of the Mojave Desert is the largest concentration of rock art in North America, possibly in the world. Images of animals, shamans, and puzzling abstract forms were peckedand painted on stone over thousands of years by a now long-gone culture. Talking Stone is a multivocal investigation of this art.

In these dynamic essays, thirteen wise women review their lives for meaning and purpose, striving to integrate both head and heart. They consider how their spiritual paradigms have shaped their vocations as teachers, scholars, guides, mentors, and advocates and how these roles have been integral to their life's work, not merely to their work life.

Travel back in memory to the people, sights, and sounds of Poplarhaven, known to most as Huntington, Utah.

An anthology of fine writing, adventurous storytelling, droll humor, and vivid description of one of America's most beloved national parks

Drawing from forty-five years of experience, E. Richard Hart elucidates the use of history as expert testimony in American Indian tribal litigation. Such lawsuits deal with aboriginal territory; hunting, fishing, and plant gathering rights; reservation boundaries; water rights; federal recognition; and other questions that have a historical basis.

Explores the interconnecting aspects of junipers. Ghost beads, biotic communities, gin, tree masticators, Puebloan diapers, charcoal, folklore, historic explorers, spiral grain, tree life cycles, spirituality, packrat middens, climate changes, wildfire, ranching, wilderness, and land management policies are among the many different threads the book follows.