DEATH VALLEY JUNCTION: the story of the Amargosa Opera House. by Marta Becket; edited by Stanley Paher.
How this professional dancer came to take an abandoned theater in the eastern California desert near Death Valley and make it into an opera house where she would give performances. This is also her story of soliciting public support to restore paintings that were on the walls. History of the town is given, including its major role in borax mining and milling. Photographs, map of region and nearby ghost towns, 16 large-format pages.
ISBN: None. 1979. Order #: NEVA1109 paper$19.50.

 

DEATH VALLEY: the story behind the scenery. Clark.
Heat, flood, cactus. geology, history, scenery of this hottest place on Earth. 48 large-format pages, color illustratrions.
ISBN: 0-916122-12-3. 1981. Order #: KCPU4636 paper$8.95.

DEATH VALLEY'S SCOTTY'S CASTLE: the story behind the scenery (CA). Paher.
Strange story of this desert mansion in an isolated canyon of Death Valley National Park--of the man who had it built and the man who came to be identified with it. Includes interior furnishings, architecture. 48 large-format pages, color illustratrions.
ISBN: 0-916122-87-5. 1985. Order #: KCPU0878 paper$8.95.

 

 

 

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OH, RANGER! a book about the national parks. by Horace M. Albright and Frank J. Taylor.
This is the classic, 1928 edition. Here is a nostalgic look at America's early national parks and their ranger service by their director of that time. Author Albright was also a long-time superintendent of Yellowstone National Park. Originally published in 1928 by Stanford University Press, and available continuously ever since, this book relates humorous stories of bears and other wild animals, Indians, fishing, park "dudes and sagebrushers" (hotel guests and campers, respectively), the fledgling ranger service, and the antics of the American tourist early in the roaring '20s. This edition includes the late author's last foreword and a tribute from a former president and early Yellowstone ranger, Gerald Ford. To the pen-and-ink drawings from the original have been added 50 early park photographs. 160 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
. ISBN-10: 0-89646-068-1. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-068-3. Order #: VIST0068 paper$7.95.
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ROCK ART OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN by Campbell Grant.
This book surveys the myriad rock paintings and carvings--numbering possibly some 15,000 sites--pecked into and painted onto boulders and rock surfaces throughout North America by its aboriginal artists. With photographs and drawings on virtually every page, this book presents the rock artists through the work they left--illustrating their extraordinarily diverse techniques, styles, and subjects. Meanings of the designs are discussed, and their roles in hunting or puberty rites interpreted. Major rock art sites are located, and methods of recording, preserving, and dating them are indicated. Author Grant has done rock art books on the Chumash Indians, the Coso Range, and Canyon de Chelly. 192 pages + 16 page color insert. Large-format. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-084-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-084-3. Order #: VIST0084 paper$12.95.

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