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Horse hunter Lin Sloan never wanted anything more than the wild stallion he called Wildfire. Lucy Bostil found the horse and the unconscious man who had roped him. She saved both their lives and took Sloan's heart in the process. Now another man wants Lucy and the horse--and will stop at nothing short of killing to get them.

Discusses the geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado, using maps, illustrated fact spreads, and other illustrated material to highlight the land, history, and people of each individual state.

Discusses the land, history, and people of the Southwestern United States.

Thirty years ago the University of California Press published an unusual manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda. The Teachings of Don Juan initiated a generation of seekers dissatisfied with the limitations of the Western worldview. Castaneda's now classic book remains controversial for the alternative way of seeing that it presents and the revolution in cognition it demands. In a series of fascinating dialogues, Castaneda sets...

The daily life and customs of prehistoric southwest Indian tribes are retraced from the designs on the remains of their pottery.

Willful Baby Rattlesnake throws tantrums to get his rattle before he's ready, but he misuses it and learns a lesson.

An award-winning writer embarks on a search for home that is historical, scientific, and spiritual as she reveals the physical link between the atomic age and her property on Utah's San Juan River.

The glamour and fascination of the Old West is brought to life in a new way in this interesting collection of facts and figures. It tell stories of such Old West characters as Geronimo, General Custer and the Unsinkable Molly Brown. This book covers the who, what, where, and how in the often violent settling of the land west of the Mississippi. The scope and history of the Old West is highlighted in a way that is both factual and entertaining in this...

Chronicles Spanish-Indian contact in North America, the Spanish frontier, and the forging of the Hispanic empire.