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From undocumented men named Angel, to angels falling from the sky, Natalie Scenters-Zapico's gripping debut collection, The Verging Cities, is filled with explorations of immigration and marriage, narco-violence and femicide, and angels in the domestic sphere. Deeply rooted along the US-Mexico border in the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, and Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, these poems give a brave new voice to the ways in which international politics...

Dramatic geographical formations tower over the Four Corners country in the southwestern United States. The mountains, cliffs, and sandstone spires, familiar landmarks for anglo travelers, orient Navajos both physically and spiritually. In Sacred Land, Sacred View, Robert McPherson describes the mythological significance of these landmarks. Navajos read their environment as a spiritual text: the gods created the physical world to help, teach, ...

In Colcha, Aaron Abeyta blends the contrasting rhythms of the English and Spanish languages, finding music in a simple yet memorable lyricism. His forty-two poems take the reader on a journey through a contemplative personal history that explores communal, political and societal issues as well as the individual experiences of family and friends. With his distinctive voice, Abeyta invites people of all cultures to enter his poems by exploring t...

Coal People" contains historic images of coal-town life culled from the collections of the Colorado Historical Society, as well as the author's own photographs of how several of these camps appear today.

Tells the story of Montford T Johnson and the first white settlement of Oklahoma. This book describes the work, the ranch parties, cattle rustling, gun fights, tornadoes, the run of 1889, the hard deaths of many along the way, and the rise, fall, and revival of the Chickasaw Nation.

This is an up-to-date, definitive summary of the distribution, conservation status, habitat, behaviour, life history, ecology, and taxonomy of all salamanders, frogs, turtles, lizards, and snakes known to inhabit Colorado. It includes a description of the Colorado landscape, colour photographs of each species, detailed range maps, identification keys, and tips on how to find, study, and photograph amphibians and reptiles. In addition, the auth...

The magnificent valley of Jackson Hole at the base of the soaring Teton Range has long been a stage on which a remarkable series of events has been acted out by an equally remarkable cast of characters. This is that story, told with a verve and excitement which brings the past alive. In these pages, the reader will witness the dramatic creation of the Tetons, the arrival of the first humans, bands of fur-clad Early Hunters who ventured into th...

In The Trail of Gold and Silver, historian Duane A. Smith details Colorado's mining saga - a story that stretches from the beginning of the gold and silver mining rush in the mid-nineteenth century into the twenty-first century.

Implementing the Endangered Species Act on the Platte Basin Water Commons tells of the negotiations among the U.S. Department of the Interior, the environmental community, and the states of Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska that took place from the mid-1970s to 2006. Ambitious talks among rival water users, environmentalists, state authorities, and the Department of the Interior finally resulted in the Platte River Habitat Recovery Program.

In this unconventional memoir, Kevin Holdsworth ruminates on the guts?or foolishness?it takes to raise a family and put down roots in remote, unpredictable country. Growing up in Utah, Holdsworth couldn?t wait to move away. Once ensconced on the East Coast, however, he found himself writing westerns and dreaming of the mountains he?d skied and climbed. He moved to a small Wyoming town. He writes of a mountaineering companion's death, the diffi...

Why do people fight about water rights? Who decides how much water can be used by a city or irrigator? Does the federal government get involved in state water issues? Why is water in Colorado so controversial? This book addresses these questions.

Island of Grass tells the story of the Cathy Fromme Prairie Natural Area, a 240-acre preserve surrounded by housing developments in Fort Collins, Colorado. This small grassland is a remnant of the once-vast prairies of the West that early European explorers and settlers described as seas of grass.

The final CIW field project took place in July of 1950, in the Maya region of Mayapan, where extensive and detailed investigations were conducted for five years. Featuring a collection of papers, this title describes the work undertaken, and reports the preliminary findings.

Southwest Book Award Winner from the Border Regional Library Association Distant Bugles, Distant Drums details the battles of 1, 000 Coloradans against 3, 000 Confederate soldiers in New Mexico and offers vivid portraits of the leaders and soldiers involved--men whose strengths and flaws would shape the fate of the nation. Drawing on previously overlooked diaries, letters, and contemporary newspaper accounts, military historian Flint Whitlock ...

Setting the scene with descriptions of the natural environment, summaries of prehistoric sites, and archaeologists' knowledge of Denver's early inhabitants, this title presents the region's history. It is suitable for lay readers, amateur archaeologists, professional archaeologists, and academic historians.

Interweaving personal stories with historical photographs and background, this lively account documents the history of the more than 40, 000 women who served in relief and military duty during World War I. Through personal interviews and excerpts from diaries, letters, and memoirs, Lettie Gavin relates poignant stories of women's wartime experiences and provides a unique perspective on their progress in military service. American Women in Worl...

Boulder: Evolution of a City has captivated newcomers, tourists, and longtime residents for years with its dramatic visual and narrative presentation of the birth and development of Boulder, Colorado. In this updated edition, 322 photographs, more than ninety of them current, capture landmarks, buildings, major events and quiet moments from the 1860s to 2006. Photographs showing the same locations at several intervals in history reveal Boulder...

The great divide between teaching "intelligent design" and evolution in U.S. schools has brought to the public eye a struggle that author and archaeoastronomer Anthony Aveni argues is as old as culture itself. All societies seek to understand the natural world, but their searches are shaped by culturally distinct views and experiences. Uncommon Sense demonstrates that a society's approach to making sense of the natural world can serve as a wor...

Now back in print as a University Press of Colorado edition, this abundantly illustrated volume fully explains moose biology and ecology and assesses the increasingly complex enterprise of managing moose. Twenty-one of the world's authorities on the species discuss its taxonomy, reproduction and growth, feeding habits, behavior, population dynamics, relationships with predators, incidental mortality, seasonal migration patterns, and habitat an...

Revised, updated, and with more than 50 new color photographs, Rocky Mountain Mammals, Third Edition is a nontechnical guide to the mammals of the Southern Rocky Mountains and their foothills, with special emphasis on Rocky Mountain National Park and vicinity. Designed for quick reference and enjoyable reading, Rocky Mountain Mammals offers what most field guides don?t?a wealth of fascinating information about each species. In seventy-two spec...