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Legends of the American desert : sojourns in the greater Southwest
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Combines history, anthropology, natural science, and personal narrative to provide a portrait of the American Southwest, looking at the variety of people and experiences that populate the area, foc...
Combines history, anthropology, natural science, and personal narrative to provide a portrait of the American Southwest, looking at the variety of people and experiences that populate the area, focusing on the struggle between different cultures for access to water, and examining many other aspects of the diverse region.
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- Creator
- Alex Shoumatoff
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- First edition
- New York : A.A. Knopf, 1997
- Physical Details
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- 533 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780394569154, 0394569156
- OCLC
- ocm37596719
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [503]-512) and index.
- PART ONE -- The Absence of Water -- A Gallery of Fugitives -- Ruins -- Enter Man -- Adaptations -- Hooked on Chile -- Getting to Know Some Navajo -- Big Mountain -- The Captivity of Clayton Lonetree -- PART TWO -- Land Ho -- The Duke Comes to Duke City -- The Conquest -- An Incredible Odyssey -- Hallucinations of the North -- The Cibola Expedition -- The Spiritual Conquista -- The New Treasure of the Sierra Madre -- A Friend of the Indians -- Spreading the Word -- The North Beckons Again -- The Diffusion of Horses -- The Crypto-Jews -- Seventeenth-Century New Mexico -- Revolt -- The Border Frontera -- The Water Rights of La Raza -- The Two Charlies -- El Tigre -- The End of the Road -- PART THREE -- A Changing of the Guard -- Changing Notions of the Frontier -- Crossings -- Route 66 -- The Wizard of Amarillo -- Among the Cowboys -- Tombstone -- Desert Utopias -- Oases -- Watering the Oases -- Albuquerque: Our Oasis for a While -- Fantase -- The Imaging of the Southwest -- Four Tucsons -- A Soul Reading in Phoenix -- The Walk-Ins of Sedona -- The Puzzling Death of Leroy Jackson -- New Orders for the Mesa of Doom -- A Look Behind the Curtain -- Epilogue: I Bring My Shadow to Big Mountain -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index