ANCIENT LANDSCAPES OF THE GRAND CANYON REGION. by Edwin D. McKee.
The geological story of Zion, Bryce, Petrified Forest, Painted Desert, and Grand Canyon. Details events in geologic periods from the earth's oldest rocks in the Grand Canyon through the formation of mountains, early climates, oldest known life and the first animal life, the age of fish, deposits of sedimentary rocks that make up so much of the landscapes of this area. Includes fossil trees, dinosaur tracks, and the "frozen" sand dunes of massive cliffs plus arches and bridges. Concludes with the erosive origins of features including cutting of canyons, glaciers, volcanic eruptions, and recent but now extinct animals, ending with the advent of man. Photographs, drawings, charts, and maps, bibliography, 52 pages.
ISBN: None. 1972. Order #: NOLA1008 paper$4.95.

 

 

BIRDS OF THE GRAND CANYON REGION: an annotated checklist. by Bryan T. Brown, Peter S. Bennett, Steven W. Carothers, Lois T Haight, R. Roy Johnson, & Meribeth M. Riffey.
Overview of bird life in this region of Arizona including Grand Canyon National Park, effects of Glen Canyon dam, species seen--where and when. Table givers list of species with their seasons of occurrence and whether common/uncommon/rare both for localities of the entire Grand Canyon region and also for the inner canyon along the Colorado River. Pertinent notes are given for each species. Grand Canyon Natural History Association Monograph Number 1. References, 50 large-format pages.
ISBN: None. 1978. Order #: GRCA0573 paper$9.95.

 

CANONS GRANDE: visions of the Grand Staircase. by Lynn Wilson, Jim Wilson, & Jeff Nicholas.
Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Zion National Parks--famous landmarks to subtle details are presented as a celebration of this landscape in all its moods. The staircase is a region of Utah and Arizona in which the landscape steps in broad levels due to underlying geologic factors, exposing at the Earth surface varying rock types that themselves give rise to unusual scenic formations. Chart showing interrelationships of geologic formation in the steps separately bearing Grand Canyon, Zion, and Bryce. Nearly 100 color photographs, 96 pages.
ISBN: 0-939365-09-X. Order #: SIER1281 paper$12.95.

THE ENCHANTED LIGHT: /images of the Grand Canyon. by Barry Thomson.
A pictorial essay of portions of the canyon few get to see. Introductory text describes, with appreciation, aspects of the canyon and its combination of stone, water, light and form that comprise these photographic impressions. The author explores the varying emotional impact being in the canyon has on its visitors, for him he finds it to be his natural habitat. Photographs, 80 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0-89734-050-7. 1979. Cover scuffed. Order #: MUNA0914 paper$7.00.

 

GRAND CANYON COUNTRY. by Carlos Elmer.
Tours natural wonders of this Arizona region--the Grand Canyon itself, Havasupai Falls and Indian reservation, Lake Mead, Pipe Spring (Mormon settlement and "fort") in the Arizona Strip north of Grand Canyon. Color photos, 28 large-format pages.
ISBN: None. 1988. Order #: MAFE4611 paper$4.95.

 

 

#GRAND CANYON RAILROAD ILLUSTRATED GUIDEBOOK. Gerber.
Reopened line from Williams, Arizona, to Grand Canyon--history, mileposts, scenery, equipment. Fully illustrated guide to the history, ghost towns, explorations, volcanoes, wildlife, and railroad equipment. Filled with maps and illustrations, a must for railroad buffs. If you are planning to ride the train, be sure to take this with you!  Illustrated, 80 pages.
ISBN: 0-935810-44-7. Order #: AMTR3710 paper$5.95.

GRAND CANYON: a wish you were here book. by Jim Wilson, Lynn Wilson & Jeff Nicholas.
Photographs and poetic captions celebrate this national park's special places. Notes on the photographs add more impressions and descriptions of the features included--with information on historic events that occurred at the scenes, cacti and wildflowers depicted, seasons, river rafting, and more. Includes mailer. 44 color photos, 48 pages.
ISBN: 0-959365-04-9. Order #: SIER3955 paper$4.95.

 

 

GRAND CANYON: the story behind the scenery (AZ). Beal.
Canyon origin, fossils, rock formations, inner canyon, exploring, wildlife. 64 large-format pages, color illustratrions.
ISBN: 0-916122-31-X. 1986. Fourteenth printing. Order #: KCPU4531 paper$8.95.

 

 

 

GRAND CANYON: the story behind the scenery (AZ).
ISBN: 0-916122-06-9 1983. Thirteenth printing. Order #: KCPU2577 cloth$15.95.

 

 

 

 

GRAND CANYON IN PICTURES: the continuing story (AZ). Connie Rudd.
Landscapes, river carving, boating the inner canyon, wildlife, and more--shown in photography with extended captions. 48 large-format pages, color illustrations, map. 1990
Inventory =1. ISBN: 0-87114-046-7 1990. First printing. Order #: KCPU8022 paper$8.95.

 

 

 

GRAND CANYON IN PICTURES: nature's continuing story (AZ). Connie Rudd.
Landscapes, river carving, boating the inner canyon, wildlife, and more--shown in photography with extended captions. 48 large-format pages, color illustrations, map.
ISBN: 0-978-088714-046-4. 2010 Fourteenth printing. Order #: KCPU9125 paper$11.95.

 

 

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK--a photographic and comprehensive guide. by Michael D. Yandell.
Park history from the ancient people of the Colorado Plateau through the conquering Spanish, early exploration and travel on the Colorado River, period of prospectors miners, and artists mysteries and characters of the canyon. Includes the geologic creation of the canyon landscape, scenic scenes and plants and animals of the desert and river region. Sections on scenic viewpoints on the north and south rims, historical maps. Color photos, maps and fold-out map, 122 large-format pages.
ISBN: None. Order #: WOWI1808 paper$7.95.

 

GRAND CANYON WILDFLOWERS. by Arthur M. Phillips III.
Arranges the flowers of this national park by color--white = yellow red,pink, and blue. for easy identification and describes the species that are found and characteristics to help identify them. Areas where the various species are more likely to be seen are indicated and uses of certain plant parts by humans are told as well as the interactions they have with the region's birds, insects, and mammals. Color photographs, bibliography, glossary, 151 pages, index..
ISBN: None. 1979. Order #: GRCA0565 paper$16.95.

A GUIDE TO GRAND CANYON VILLAGE HISTORIC DISTRICT. by Timothy Manns.
Gives overview of Grand Canyon history, noting Native Americans of thousands of years ago, Spanish explorers in 1540, European visitors, prospectors, and tourism entrepreneurs. Details the structures of the district: Red Horse Station when canyon visitors came by stagecoach, Bright Angel Trail operated as a toll road, Kolb Studio of photographers who made early Colorado River trip, Lookout Studio of Fred Harvey Company selling photographs and books, pioneer and miner's Buckey O'Nell Cabin, Indian Gardens in the canyon, El Tovar Hotel, Hopi House, Verkamp's Curios, Santa Fe Railway Station, first National Park Service administration building, Mule and Horse Barns. Historical photographs, district map, 24 pages.
ISBN: None. Order #: GRCA0568 paper$4.95.

A GUIDE TO HIKING THE INNER CANYON: Grand Canyon National Park. by Scott Thybony.
Permits and reservations are generally required for hiking here, so be sure to update pre-trip. Weather factors are explained, with wide variations from excessive heat in midsummer to dangerous cold in winter. Because of the great elevation difference between the rims and the river, conditions can be very different on a single day and a snowy trail cut as a ledge above an abyss can have its own hazard. History of the trails and the park is given, and wildlife and wildflowers plus geology are explained. 15 trails from both the south rim and north-rim are detailed with maps, lengths, elevations, trail conditions, water sources, and access points. Color photographs, maps, drawings, geologic section of rock formations, 48 pages.
ISBN: 0-938216-12-0. 1980. Order #: GRCA0561 paper$5.95.

 

GUIDE TO THE NORTH KAIBAB TRAIL. by Allen Berkowitz.
Details history of trail and provides mileages from the North Rim trailhead past Roaring Springs, Ribbon Falls, and Phantom Ranch, with the Colorado River crossing and the start of the trail up to the South Rim not far beyond. Section maps give still more detail of trailside features and destinations and include notes on the changing geology as the trail crosses differing rock formations. Wildlife, human history, and the story of ancient Anasazi Indians is also pointed out where pertinent. Location of ranger services is noted. Photographs, maps, drawings, 34 pages.
ISBN: 0-938216-10-4. 1980. Order #: GRCA0563 paper$3.95.

 

 

GUIDE TO THE SOUTH KAIBAB TRAIL by Rose Honk.
Explores the natural history of this trail from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon to the Colorado River, developing an understanding and therefore an appreciation of the features to be seen. Sections describe The Rocks, The Desert, and The River with notes about the special character of each including  geology, wildlife, flowers, history , interactions, enjoyment of the scene. And so this is not a trail guide in the usual sense but an interpretation of what can be seen. Fold-out drawings, map, 24 pages.
ISBN: 0-938216-15-5. 1981. Order #: GRCA0569 paper$3.95.

 

 

 

MAJOR JOHN WESLEY POWELL: voyage of discovery--the story behind the scenery. by Dan Murphy.
Travel with Powell on his harrowing 1869 journey of exploration to descend the Green River to the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. 9x12, 64 pages, 63 color photos, 28 maps.
  ISBN: 0-88714-059-9. 2001. Third printing. Order #: KCPU8090 paper$12.95.

 

 

ON FOOT IN THE GRAND CANYON: hiking the trails of the South Rim. by Sharon Spangler.
Guidebook for hikers giving personal accounts of trips on 20 trails that go along the canyon rim or down into the gorge and even to the river. Appendixes give the story of geology with the rock formations explained and of trails data giving mileages of the trails, times required, elevations gained or lost plus trailhead locations. Maps, photos, 200 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-87108-790-1. 1989. Order #: PRUE6539 paper$14.95.

 

 

RECOLLECTIONS OF PHANTOM RANCH. by Elizabeth J. Simpson.
A little booklet with a lot of history of the horseback guest inn at the bottom of Grand Canyon in Arizona. Tells of early river explorers, construction projects, trail builders and operators, crossing the Colorado River with a suspension bridge, the CCC era. Provides suggestions and directions for shorter hikes around the ranch vicinity and for full-day hikes as well. Photos, map, 24 pages.
ISBN: None. 1984. Order #: GRCA0570 paper$4.95.

 

 

A SKETCH OF GRAND CANYON PREHISTORY. by Anne Trinkle Jones & Robert C. Euler.
Overview of early native Americans--pottery, dwellings, rock art, foods. Archaeological evidence from caves tells of split-twig figurines made some 3,000 to 4,000 years ago by the people who lived here at that time. Abundant circular stone mounds remain from ancestral mescal roasting  Also tells of the lifeways of more recent inhabitants such as the Tusayan pueblo settlement of about 1150 A.D. on the south canyon rim, of petroglyphs and pottery, and of almost-modern and modern Paiute and Havasupai peoples. Photos, drawings, 15 pages.
ISBN: None 1979. Order #: GRCA0572paper$9.95.

 

 

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ACROSS ARIZONA IN 1883. by Anonymous.
Reprinted from Harper's Monthly, here is an eyewitness account--gathered via train, stage, horse, and on foot--of southern Arizona. The Indians are described, the wild element at Tombstone is reported, and the mission church of San Xavier del Bac is depicted. It was a time of cowboys, City Marshall Wyatt Earp and gambler "Doc" Holliday, and Apaches--the wild frontier days of Arizona long before it became a state. Period engravings. 16 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-011-8. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-011-9. Order #: VIST0011 paper$3.95.


THE CAÑONS OF THE COLORADO-- the 1869 discovery voyage down the Colorado River. by Major John Wesley Powell.
Note the word cañons in the title would today be spelled canyons but we have preserved the usage from the time when this voyage was made and written about by the major himself. From Wyoming, into Colorado, through Utah, to Arizona and the Grand Canyon, and to Nevada--this was the journey of the "Colorado River Exploring Expedition", what Powell called his group of 9 men and 4 boats as they began charting what was the last major unexplored part of the then United States. The trip was not only scientific in its goals, but it naturally became a grand adventure, with two of their party opting to leave the expedition before attempting a furious cascade, only to be killed by Indians. Much of the land and scenery which they drifted or dashed past is today included in National Park System areas.
Illustrations are by Thomas Moran and others. 64 pages.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-059-2. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-059-1. Order #: VIST0059 paper $4.95.

KAIBETO MEMORIES: a trader's daughter remembers growing up on the Navajo Reservation at Kaibeto Trading Post in remote northern Arizona 1936-1960. by Elizabeth Anne Jones Dewveall.
Even today Kaibeto does not appear as a place on many modern maps. When Elizabeth Anne was growing up in this remote desert region of northeastern Arizona roads were still evolving from dirt tracks and passage was not infrequently blocked by drifting sand, unpredictable floods in otherwise dry washes, or snowstorms, with pavement dozens and dozens of miles away in all directions and little development of any kind along the routes. The trading post, however, had already been a hub for supplies for the local population for 22 years when Elizabeth Anne started her life there as daughter of traders Ralph and Julia Jones. Elizabeth Anne grew up as a single child at this remote outpost, with Navajo Indian children as playmates and an occasional visit by relatives from distant places. In time she would learn some Navajo words, how to trade the post's goods in an economy with little cash, and something of a culture not her own. The post took in hides, wool, silver and turquoise jewelry, woven blankets as items of exchange and often relied on a pawn system, storing native treasures as collateral. Much of her account, however, is of stories of the native people who came to the post and of their joys, trials, and tribulations as they managed their lives with ingenuity and perseverance. The stories Elizabeth Anne tells provide a glimpse of life at this trading post, of which little has been written before, and by extension of what life might have been like at the many other trading post throughout the West that linked populations through an economic setting. 120 pages, illustrations, map. See sample pages, illustrations.
Paper edition: ISBN: 978-0-8946-103-1. Order #: VIST0103 paper$14.95.
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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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