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Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Fort Bowie National Historic Site, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Grand Canyon National Park,, Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Navajo National Monument, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Petrified Forest National Park, Saguaro National Park, Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, Wupatki National Monument

AMERICA'S GRAND RESORT HOTELS: 80 classic resorts in the United States and Canada. by Rod Fensom.
Features resorts built between 1847-1929 with over 100 rooms each, attractive locations in seashore, mountain, or desert, active guest schedules, longer average stays, and historic atmosphere or design. Chronology of hotel openings from 1776 to 1980. Among them are The Ahwahnee of Yosemite, Old Faithful Inn of Yellowstone, The Sagamore of New York, Skytop Lodge of Pennsylvania, Chateaui Lake Louise of Canada. 100 photos, 224 pages, index. Published by East Woods Press. Condition: uncirculated.
ISBN: 0-88742--022-2. 1985. Order #: GLPE4395 paper$39.00.

 

AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE BIRDS OF ORGAN PIPE CACTUS NATIONAL MONUMENT. by Kathleen Groschpf, Bryan T. Brown, and R. Roy Johson.
Overview of the studies of birds made in this area, with descriptions of desert habitat utilized by the different species and summaries of sightings at different months of the year to give seasonal distribution. Charts, 50 large-format pages. bibliography
ISBN:0-911408-74-6. 1988. Order #: SOPM4500 paper$9.95.

 

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.

CANYON DE CHELLY: the story behind the scenery (AZ). Supplee.
Anasazi and today's Navajo peoples, rock formations, cliff dwellings at Arizona National park. 65 color photos, 48 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0-88714-042-4. 1993. Tenth printing, revised. Order #: KCPU0719 paper$8.95.

 

 

CANYON DE CHELLY IN PICTURES: the continuing story. Hunter.
Cliffside cliff-dwellings in the canyon of this Arizona national park. Once inhabited by Anasazi and now by Navajo Native Americans. 48 large-format pages, color illustrations.
ISBN: 0-88714-145-5. 1999. First printing. Order #: KCPU8007 paper$ 8.95.

 

CONSTRUCTION OF HOOVER DAM. by Bureau of Reclamation.
By 1927 when construction of Hoover Dam was authorized to be built, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation had already constructed some of the largest dams in the world. Although the site here had favorable qualities for a massive dam, that in itself added to the challenge of straddling the steep-walled gorge and diverting the huge Colorado River while they prepared the dam's bed and created the concrete barrier complete with hydroelectric generation and highway bridge crossing the Arizona-Nevada border.. Text and photographs report how the project was done and show its immensity. Engineering diagrams, photographs, 48 pages. Historical reprint
ISBN: 0-916122-51-4. Historical reprint. 1976. Order #: KCPU8060 paper$4.00.

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.

 

FIRE AND STONE: a road guide to Wupatki & Sunset Crater National Monuments. by Scott Thybony.
An auto tour of 35 miles runs through these two national monuments in Arizona, passing lava flows and craters from volcanic activity and stopping at sites of history and Anasazi Indian ruins. Explains the ancestral Native American occupation period and culture, the archaeological discovery of the pueblo villages, the plants and wildlife of this high desert region of arid summers and snow-covered winters, recent occupation by Navajo people. Map, color photographs, 48 pages.
ISBN:0-911-408-67-3. 1987. Order #: SOPM 1320 paper$7.95.

FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE LAKE MEAD REGION. by James S. Holland, Russell K. Grater, David Huntzinger, et. al.
For this desert region explains the drought escapers, drought evaders, and the drought resisters for 121 desert wildflowers near Las Vegas, for Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Also explains the plant communities found here, which serves as an aid to identifying the plants based on habitat. Flowering plants are grouped by color and described with characteristics of  size, stem, leaves, nature and grouping of blossoms--with interesting notes as well such as the animals that might prefer certain species. Color photographs, 40 pages, index.
ISBN: None. Order #: SOPM1313 paper$5.95.

 

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 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: 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 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.

 

GRAND CIRCLE ADVENTURE. by Reed.
Parks and monuments in southern Utah and Colorado, northern Arizona and New Mexico--desert and rockscapes, Indian sites. 72 color photos, 48 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0-916122-94-8. 1983. Order #: KCPU0726 paper $8.95.

 

 

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.

 

A GUIDE TO THE DESERT GEOLOGY OF LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA. by John v. Bezy.
The desert landscape of this Arizona/Nevada area in many places reveals its geological character more clearly for here there is essentially no vegetation cluttering the view and the appearance of the rocks. Presents explanations of faults, alluvial fans, former lake beds, the sand cycle, hot springs, salt deposits,sink holes, volcanic dikes, cross-bedding, graben--30 geologic features in all.. Photos, drawings, 68 pages.
ISBN: 0-911408-51-7. 1978. Covers scuffed. Order #: SOPM1316 paper $4.95.

 

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 Houk.
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.

 

 

HOUSES BENEATH THE ROCK: the Anasazi of Canyon de Chelly and Navajo National Monument. by David Grant Noble.
Essays by noted archaeologists and historians give insight into Native American inhabitants of this region and their way of life in their cliffside and cave dwellings. Discusses rock art, basketry and artifacts, and the last stand of Navajos against Kit Carson's removal from their home.  Photographs, map, 64 large-format pages, saddle-stitched.
ISBN: 0-941270-72-6. 1986. Order #: GISM1859 paper $8.95.

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LAKE MEAD IN PICTURES: the continuing story (AZ/NV). by Katherine M. Rohde.
Experience the variety of recreation in this urban wilderness park as you discover how plants, animals, and people have adapted to survive the desert's extremes of temperature and moisture. 9x12, 48 pages, 84 color photos & 2 maps.
ISBN: 0-88714-146-3. 1999Order #: KCPU8031 paper $11.95.

 

 

LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA: auto tour guide. by Douglas B. Evans.
History and geology along roads in this Arizona/Nevada desert area. Outlines 4 tours with numbered stops pointing out aspects there of geology, history, archeology, and wildlife. Gives an overview of the region's character and history. Tours are: Nevada-Lake Mead, Nevada-Lake Mohave, Arizona-Lake Mead, Arizona-Lake Mohave. These take you to lakeshore beaches and fishing spots, Native American rock art, sites of towns now flooded by the lake, geological oddities, even an historic steamboat race on the Colorado River before the Hoover Dam (was Boulder Dam). Photos, maps, 39 pages.
ISBN: None. Order #: SOPM1321 paper $3.95.

LAKE MEAD--HOOVER DAM: the story behind the scenery (AZ/NV). Maxon.
Landscapes, history, engineering of this Arizona recreation area. 48 large-format pages, color illustratrions.
ISBN: 0-916122-61-1. 1981. Second printing. Order #: KCPU4792 paper $8.95.

 

 

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.

 

 

PETRIFIED FOREST IN PICTURES: the continuing story. Bowmans.
Extended captions explain the unusual opalized fossil logs of this desert national park; includes animal fossils also discovered here and ancient Indian sites plus desert plants and animals. 48 large-format pages, color illustratrions.
ISBN: 0-88714-056-4. 1991. First printing. Order #: KCPU4873 paper$8.95.

 

 

PETRIFIED FOREST NATIONAL PARK topographic map (AZ). US Geological Survey.
Arizona. Scale 1:50,000; contour interval 10 meters (approximately 33 feet). Map is 46" x 40". Shows park roads, terrain, vegetation, feature locations, Indian ruins. Shipped folded.
ISBN: 35109-A7-PM-050. 1981. Order #: USGS8824 map $9.00.

 

 

 

PETRIFIED FOREST: the story behind the scenery. Ash & May.
Stone trees of ancient forest, now opalized; wildlife, Indian ruins. 33 color photos, 32 large-format pages. 1981.
Inventory = 90. ISBN: None.Order #:  PEFO1086 paper $4.95.

 

 

 

PETRIFIED FOREST: the story behind the scenery. Ash.
Explains origins of stone logs, limbs, roots scattered in whole sections or pieces across this desert landscape, plus animal fossils of the region. 48 large-format pages, color illustratrions.
ISBN: None. 1990. Ninth printing. Order #: KCPU4867 paper $8.95.

 

 

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.

 

 

SAGUARO (AZ). by Napier Shelton & Natt Dodge.
National Park Service Handbook to this southern Arizona national park: relationships among land, climate, plants, wild animals, man in desert environment of Arizona. Tells of Sonoran Desert, rocks as the foundation, plant and animal zones, desert plants, animals and how they survive, and the impact of man. Appendixes give suggested readings, lists of the reptiles and amphibians and of birds and mammals. Color illustrations, map, 104 pages.
ISBN: 024-005-00912-4. 1985. Order #: USGB8819 paper$7.50.

 

SAGUARO: the desert flower book. by Millie Miller with flowers drawn by Millie Miller, Sally King, and Cyndi Nelson.
A couple hundred color drawings and notes on common flowers of Southwest deserts with descriptive notes and common and scientific names, including desert mallow, blazing star, creosote, yucca, desert phlox, paintbrush, barrel cactus, tidy tips, buckhorn cholla, and many more. Especially pertinent in Sajuaro National Park. 68 pages 4" x 6".
Inventory =1. ISBN:0-933472-69-2. 1982. Order #: JOHN3772 paper r$5.95.

 

 

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 Paitue and Havasupai peoples. Photos, drawings, 15 pages.
ISBN: None 1979. Order #: GRCA0572paper $9.95.

SNAKES, TURTLES, & LIZARDS OF THE LAKE MEAD REGION. by Russell K. Grater.
33 species (2 turtles, 15 lizards, 20 snakes)--some poisonous and some not, for Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona and Nevada. Each is illustrated and described for identification purposes plus notes on its habitat and how it "makes its living" in this mainly desert region. Color photos, 48 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-911408-58-4. 1981. /Order #: SOPM9556 paper$19.50.

 

TRAIL GUIDE TO FORT BOWIE: Fort Bowie National Historic Site. Early military fort at Apache Pass in Arizona, from where the Apache Indian Cochise was captured--and escaped. Guide leads to and describes former and still-standing structures and sites of barracks, cemetery, corrals and stables, sutler's store, and more and leads past the location of the 1862 Battle of Apache Pass where California Volunteers marching to aid Union forces fighting Confederates in New Mexico during the Civil War were themselves ambushed by Cochise and Mangas Coloradas and several hundred warriors. Drawings map, 28 pages.
ISBN: None. Order #: SOPM2168 paper $3.95.

WHAT KINDA CACTUS IZZAT? by Reg Manning.
A "Who's Who" of strange plants in the Southwestern American Desert. Presents the plants that are armed with needles, swords, and knives intended to fend off would-be eaters or for the purpose of grabbing a ride to a new site for reproduction. Explains what a cactus is compared to other plants that might also have spines, describes the structure of cactus plants, considers the nature of the desert environment, and provides the identifying characteristics of many species such as saguaro, ocotillo, cholla, and prickly pear. Cartoon drawings, 108 pages, map.
Inventory = 20. ISBN: None. 1987. Order #: REGA1224 paper $3.95.

List of National Park System areas in Arizona:
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Chiricahua National Monument
Coronado National Memorial
Fort Bowie National Historic Site
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument
Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site
Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Montezuma Castle National Monument
Navajo National Monument
Old Spanish Trail National Historic Trail
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Petrified Forest National Park
Pipe Spring National Monument
Saguaro National Park
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
Tonto National Monument
Tumacacori National Historical Park
Tuzigoot National Monument
Walnut Canyon National Monument
Wupatki National Monument

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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.

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