Caprock Canyonlands

2010 History

Author : Dan L Flores
Release : 2010
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 320/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Caprock Canyonlands written by Dan L Flores. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years ago, Dan Flores's "Caprock Canyonlands" became one of the first books ever to treat the flat, arid landscape of the southern High Plains as a place of uncommon beauty and enduring spirit. Now a classic, "Caprock Canyonlands" has been favorably compared by readers to the work of such icons of nature and environmental writing as William Bartram, Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and Henry David Thoreau. Containing the author's stunning photography, a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx, author of "Brokeback Mountain," an afterword by environmental historian Thomas R. Dunlap, and a new preface by the author, this twentieth anniversary edition makes available to a new generation of readers Flores's knowledgeable and heartfelt narrative of the canyons and badlands of eastern New Mexico and western Oklahoma and Texas. He evokes the history and natural history that shaped the region, drawing upon geology, mythology, botany, art, history and natural history that shaped the region, drawing upon geology, mythology, botany, art, history, and literature. ""Caprock Canoynlands" keeps its place on our bookshelves . . . for its exploration of a deeply human activity: the search for the beauty of the earth, the depth and strength of our ties to it, and the ways those appear in a particular landscape . . . here illuminated by love."--from the afterword by Thomas R. Dunlap

The Prehistory of Texas

2012-09-24 Social Science

Author : Timothy K. Perttula
Release : 2012-09-24
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 494/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Prehistory of Texas written by Timothy K. Perttula. This book was released on 2012-09-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paleoindians first arrived in Texas more than eleven thousand years ago, although relatively few sites of such early peoples have been discovered. Texas has a substantial post-Paleoindian record, however, and there are more than fifty thousand prehistoric archaeological sites identified across the state. This comprehensive volume explores in detail the varied experience of native peoples who lived on this land in prehistoric times. Chapters on each of the regions offer cutting-edge research, the culmination of years of work by dozens of the most knowledgeable experts. Based on the archaeological record, the discussion of the earliest inhabitants includes a reclassification of all known Paleoindian projectile point types and establishes a chronology for the various occupations. The archaeological data from across the state of Texas also allow authors to trace technological changes over time, the development of intensive fishing and shellfish collecting, funerary customs and the belief systems they represented, long-term changes in settlement mobility and character, landscape use, and the eventual development of agricultural societies. The studies bring the prehistory of Texas Indians all the way up through the Late Prehistoric period (ca. a.d. 700–1600). The extensively illustrated chapters are broadly cultural-historical in nature but stay strongly focused on important current research problems. Taken together, they present careful and exhaustive considerations of the full archaeological (and paleoenvironmental) record of Texas.

Caprock Canyonlands

1990 Science

Author : Dan Louie Flores
Release : 1990
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 211/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Caprock Canyonlands written by Dan Louie Flores. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the canyons and badlands of the southern High Plains, describes their history, and argues that more of these areas should be preserved as national parks

The Coronado Expedition

2012-04 History

Author : Richard Flint
Release : 2012-04
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 764/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Coronado Expedition written by Richard Flint. This book was released on 2012-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as a hardback in 2003.

Of Rock and Rivers

2009-06-08 Nature

Author : Ellen E. Wohl
Release : 2009-06-08
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 216/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Of Rock and Rivers written by Ellen E. Wohl. This book was released on 2009-06-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully written and deeply personal collection of essays paints a progressive view of the American West as seen by a geologist. Ellen Wohl traces her twenty years of living and conducting research in the natural landscapes of the West as she investigates the conflict between environmental history and widely held romanticized views of the region. Wohl grew up in Ohio, subscribing to a common perception of the American West as an unchanged frontier. Moving to Arizona, she became enthralled with how the landscapes and ecosystems of the West have undergone change, both through geologic time and during the historical era of European settlement. These essays tell of her early training as a geomorphologist and provide a memorable account of her research in the rivers of the West. As the lessons accrue, Wohl gives us the benefit of her experience and shows how years of studying and living in the Colorado Rockies have enhanced her understanding of landscape change through time. Building on the literary tradition of Joseph Wood Krutch, Terry Tempest Williams, and John McPhee, Wohl provides an up-to-date portrait of the West and brings a new urgency to the call for conservation of the region's land, water, and resources.

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