Southwestern Book List
Colorado's Canyon Country : A Guide to Hiking and Floating Blm Wildlands
by Mark Pearson, John Fielder (Photographer)

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Hiking the Southwest's Canyon Country
by Sandra Hinchman

With its first-rate information on how to make your trip to the American Southwest's Canyon Country a safe and pleasant one, this is an excellent guidebook. But if you're interested in learning more about the geology, archeology, native cultures, and natural splendors of red rock territory along the way, it's downright indispensable. In this new edition, six completely revised two- and three-week trip itineraries give information on some of the high desert's most enjoyable trails and breathtaking scenic attractions in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona.
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Hidden Southwest (4th Edition)
by Stephen Dolainski (Editor), Richard Harris

Drawing travelers from around the globe, the American Southwest is a picturesque blend of sandstone cliffs, slickrock mesas, bright lakes, vast deserts, and mountain peaks. "Hidden Southwest" reveals the spirit of this land and of the groups that have settled it, and gives tips on the best ways to enjoy the area's major attractions. Many maps and illustrations.

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Utah's National Parks : Hiking and Vacationing in Utah's Canyon Country
by Ron Adkison

If you are planning a tour of Utah's national parks, this guide should prove handy if not essential. It includes easy strolls and multiday backbreakers for Bryce, Capital Reef, Arches, Canyonlands, and Zion. In all, it describes 123 hikes in a user-friendly format. Easy-to-read info blips provide data for hike distances, elevations, difficulty ratings, hazards, and in-seasons. Each hike also includes an ample route description and a few tips thrown in for good measure.
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Images in Stone: Southwest Rock Art
by David Muench (Photographer), Polly Schaafsma

The rock art panels of North America have for too long been treated as mere artifacts, their aesthetic power and beauty not completely appreciated by those who have never visited the sites. In pursuit of this often hidden photographic subject, David Muench has searched the American southwest. The superb reproductions convey this art in the manner of of a fine museum portfolio. Anthropologist Polly Schaafsma' s introduction and text provide background on the people who created the art and the world they inhabitated. This comprehensive survey of rock art of America's ancient civilizations staggers the beholder in its beauty and absorbing interest.
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Sacred Sites of the West
by Bernyce Barlow

A tour of places in the western United States that ancient cultures knew to be charged by special energies but with which modern science has lost touch. More than just a tour guide, Barlow explains the theories of ion flows, Earth physics, and ley lines so that we not only know the "where" but the "why" and the best ways to experience the energies that exist in these places.
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