Natural history of California national monument on east side of Sierra Nevada: geology of geometric volcanic posts, history.
ISBN: None. Order #: SEQU6769 paper$3.95.
EASTERN CALIFORNIA TREASURE HUNTERS GHOST TOWN GUIDE. by Theron Fox.
Handy reference for locating
old mining camps, ghost town sites, forts, abandoned roads and railroads, mountains,
rivers, and creeks. Includes inserted folded map of Eastern California, 1881; lists several hundred place names. Center pages are 1860 county map of California. Tells history of state to give context on where treasure might be found. Maps, 24 pages, index.
ISBN: None. Order #: NEVA7584 paper$4.95.
MAMMOTH-MONO COUNTRY. Clark.
Guidebook to eastern Sierra, trails, winter activities, nature. Photos, maps, 96 pages.
Inventory =6. ISBN: 0-931532-17-5. 1981. Order #: WETR2144 paper$6.00.
SNOWY EARTH COMES GLIDING. by Evelin Eaton.
Discovering ancient wisdom of country of lost borders, known to white folks as Owens Valley;
Native American traditions through the eyes of a resident who became familiar with the native people and studied their practices, customs, and beliefs. Author writes of sweat lodges, being a Singer, the pipe tradition, dances, and ways of thinking. Published by the Bear Tribe. Photos, 120 pages.
ISBN: 0-943404-02-9. 1974. Order #: BETR0178 paper$5.95.
THE WAY IT IS. by Corbin Harney.
This elder and spiritual leader of Western Shoshone Nation tells of lifeways of
his people, who are native to Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and California. He also practices healing as a medicine man, provides sweat lodge ceremonies, leads prayers, and has been instrumental in helping to stop nuclear testing. The philosophy he proposes is to come back to the native way of life, not misuse Mother Earth but to take care of her for the younger generation. To do this, he notes, we have to put our thoughts together: one water, one air, one Mother Earth. Photos, 245 pages.
ISBN: 0-931892-80-5. Order #: BLDO5821 paper$16.00.
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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.
A TRIP TO BODIE BLUFF and the Dead Sea of the West
(Mono Lake)--in 1863. written and illustrated by J. Ross Browne.
The adventures of a noted humorist of the 1860s during an excursion at their heyday
to the mines of Bodie, Aurora, and the Mono Lake region. Author Browne was a man of many
hats: he was a minerals engineer, an almost politician, locator of coastal post offices in
California, recorder and publisher of California's constitutional convention, and writer
and artist for Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Browne's writing is not of the
"superlative" or romantic variety popular at his time; instead Browne found fun
in the foibles of man's endeavors--and poked at them. In fact, Mark Twain's earlier
writings were on this same region of eastern California and central Nevada, and the
incidents and even the illustrations in Twain's works seem to have been inspired by
Browne's preceding writing. Today, we can still see vestiges of some of the scenes Browne
saw, for California maintains Bodie today in "a state of arrested decay" as a
state park. Park visitors will better understand the scene with these insights from an
earlier visitor.
Illustrated, 72 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-076-2.
ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-076-8. Order #: VIST0076 paper$4.95. Out of print except for scuffed-cover copies.
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