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Author
Publisher
Xlibris Corporation
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
160 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Waypoints Along the Book Mountains is an historical glimpse of the Little Book Cliff range in western Colorado extending to Utah as the Book Cliffs. People living along this range enjoy watching the sun cast the alpenglow on the cliffs as the sun sets. Ute people, ranchers, settlers even hermits have occupied the cedar, pinion and oak brush-covered slopes. Old and new coal mines dot the mountain from Palisade to Price.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For twelve years, Andrea Lankford lived in the biggest, most impressive national parks in the world, working a job she loved. She chaperoned baby sea turtles on their journey to sea. She pursued bad guys on her galloping patrol horse. She jumped into rescue helicopters bound for the heart of the Grand Canyon. She won arguments with bears. She slept with a few too many rattlesnakes. Hell yeah, it was the best job in the world! Fortunately, Andrea survived...
Publisher
Utah State University Press, with Utah Crossroads, Oregon-California Trails Association
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
126 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers automobile tours to five of Utah's emigrant trails, including the Spanish Trail, the Bidwell-Bartleson Trail, the Pioneer Trail, the Hastings Cutoff, and the Salt Lake Cutoff, each accompanied by a brief historical perspective, directions to view trail remnants, and optional off-road outings.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
x, 266 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
They have tried to tame it, shave it, fence it, cut it, dam it, drain it, nuke it, poison it, pave it, and subdivide it," writes Timothy Egan of the West in his new book, but "this region's hold on the American character has never seemed stronger." Lasso the Wind is a moving, funny, and incisive look at the eleven states "on the sunset side of the 100th meridian" that Egan regards as the true West. Fishing rod and notebook in hand, he travels by car...
Author
Publisher
Utah Geographic Series
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
136 p. : col. ill. ; 23 x 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Utah Geographic Series is a celebration of this vast landscape that stretches for 85,000 square miles across the state of Utah. The Series will portray in words and photographs the unique diversity of Utah's astounding landforms, colorful history, expansive natural areas and vigorous people.
Author
Series
Northern region volume Vol. 1
Publisher
J.V. Publications
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
508 pages maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first volume of Ghost Towns, Colorado Style is filled with over 230 historic and contemporary photos from the northern region of the Colorado Rockies. Organized into six geographic areas, this book of fascinating history is easy to use and fun to read. It covers over 150 town histories from Routt, Moffat, Larimer, Grand, Boulder, Gilpin and Clear Creek counties. To guide readers to various sites, Jessen also provides 60 detailed maps and helpful...
Author
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
xiii, 160 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
From overpass walls to bathroom stalls, we humans can’t seem to pass up an opportunity to leave some evidence of our passing through. This urge is hardly a contemporary phenomenon and the beginnings of such activity surely date back beyond the beginnings of written language. In 1960 James Knipmeyer took the first of many vacations to the Colorado Plateau region of southern Utah and northern Arizona. During his years of hiking and camping he grew...
12) Our fifty states
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
239 p. : col. ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
National Geographic Our Fifty States is a stunning collection of illustrations, maps, and essays about each state and region of the United States. Written by two geographers, it captures the geographic, economic, and cultural diversity and essence of the country in a single volume. The book is organized first by region (Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and West) then the states within each region appear alphabetically. Each region is introduced...
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
[1987, c1981]
Physical Desc
xiv, 190 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
This useful guidebook surveys more than 80 ghost towns, grouped by geographic area. First published in 1981 and now available only from UNM Press, it has been praised in particular for its instructions on how to reach even the most obscure sites.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world's first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres.
20) King of the Colorado: the story of Cass Hite : Utah's legendary explorer, prospector and pioneer
Author
Publisher
Southpaw Publ
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
180 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cass Hite was the man who: discovered Utah's Natural Bridges National Monument ; explored the wilderness of Glen Canyon and the San Juan River drainage ; lived among the Navajos as an adopted son of Chief Hoskininni ; found and named the Dandy Crossing of the Colorado River ; searched for The Lost Mitchell and Merrick Silver Mine in Monument Valley ; worked old Spanish gold mines along the Colorado River ; inspired the Glen canyon gold rush ; founded...
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