Download or read book The Grand Circle Tour A Travel and Reference Guide to the American Southwest and the Ancient Peoples of the Colorado Plateau written by Michael Royea and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Circle Tour is a circuit around a ring of National Parks and Native American sites in the Four Corners Region of the Southwest. It encompasses some of the most significant ancient history in North America: remanants of the Anasazi civilization. From the well-known sites like Zion and Bryce to the little known and well-preserved areas, Royea provides the kind of detailed guidance never before available in guidebook form. The Grand Circle Tour consists of two parts: Part 1 is divided into 14 days and visits 21 different sites, with an additional 20 sites covered that are nearby. The second part of the book has a timeline for the Anasazi. It's a history of Native American occupation of the Southwest from 10,000BC to the present day. The book can be used as a general travel guide or as the basis for an in-depth, historical tour. It is so filled with historical and cultural detail (complimented by photos, maps, and site plans) that it can even provide a satisfying armchair "tour" of the region.
Download or read book The Best of the Southwest written by Steve Carr and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide book is divided into two parts, featuring a 7-day trip and a 14-day trip, covering a spectacular area of mountains, high desert, and wondrous canyons often referred to by the Chamber of Commerce folks as the Grand Circle – Zion, Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Lake Powell, Bryce, and Cedar Breaks.
Download or read book Southwestern Adventure written by Michael Royea and published by Touchpoint Press. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A travel and reference guide to ancient Arizona and New Mexico.The Grand Circle Tour is a circuit around a collection of National Parks and Native American sites in the Four Corners Region of the American Southwest.The book is divided into two parts: Part 1 covers 41 archaeological sites and museums and Part 2 examines the history, culture, and archaeology of the Mogollon, Hohokam, Salado, and Sinagua. The travel guide may be used for individual sites or followed as a two-week tour. The tour is set in a circle and may be started at any point and in either direction.
Download or read book Exploring the Southwest s Grand Circle written by Mark A. Schlenz and published by Companion Press (Santa Barbara, CA). This book was released on 1988 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the Southwest's Grand Circle - the landscapes of the Colorado Plateaus. The Grand Circle contains seven national parks, seven national monuments, and a Navajo tribal park.
Download or read book Spirit of the American Southwest written by Tom Prisciantelli and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple exploration in straight forward language of the events and geologic processes responsible for the stunning beauty of the deserts, plateaus and mountains in the American Southwest.
Download or read book Road Tours Of The Southwest Book 14 written by Richard Kerry Holtzin and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-06 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Road tours of the Colorado Plateau, starting in specific tourist hubs (thus, a Grand Circle tour that begins and ends at specified tourist hub).
Download or read book The Essential Colorado Plateau written by John Annerino and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Colorado Plateau is your guide to a wonderland of slickrock spires, slot canyons, soaring stone arches and natural bridges, storied rivers, and ancient cultural sites in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Make the most of your travels-don't miss the must-see viewpoints, cliff dwellings, and sacred sites, the best hikes, tallest arches, and longest natural bridges, Features: 28 national, tribal, and state parks and monuments. Native American names and translations for many landmarks, Amazing stories of Ancient peoples, explores, lost souls, and pioneers. Geological and ecological highlights. Clear, concise directions to all sites. 123 beautiful full-color photographs. Book jacket.
Download or read book First Impressions written by David J. Weber and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the history and culture of the American Southwest, as told through early encounters with fifteen iconic sites This unique guide for literate travelers in the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the first non-natives to describe them. Noted borderlands historians David J. Weber and William deBuys lead readers through centuries of political, cultural, and ecological change. The sites visited in this volume range from popular destinations within the National Park System—including Carlsbad Caverns, the Grand Canyon, and Mesa Verde—to the Spanish colonial towns of Santa Fe and Taos and the living Indian communities of Acoma, Zuni, and Taos. Lovers of the Southwest, residents and visitors alike, will delight in the authors’ skillful evocation of the region’s sweeping landscapes, its rich Hispanic and Indian heritage, and the sense of discovery that so enchanted its early explorers. Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
Download or read book The High Southwest written by Robert L. Casey and published by Falcon Guides. This book was released on 2003 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quintessential guidebook to the Four Corners region of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, Journey to the High Southwestis both an inspiring armchair read and a practical take-along guide. It offers insight into the history, culture, and geography that define the region while delivering all of the detail readers need on driving directions, activities, and attractions. From the geology of the canyons of Southeastern Utah to the cultural history of Northeastern Arizona's Indian Country, this book provides fascinating background information for readers who are interested in the Southwest, as well as valuable information for those making travel plans.
Download or read book Exploring the Southwest s Grand Circle written by Mark A. Schlenz and published by Companion Press. This book was released on 1988-05 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau written by Ronald C. Blakey and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine seeing the varied landscapes of the earth as they used to look throughout hundreds of millions of years of earth history. Tropical seas lap on the shores of an Arizona beach. Immense sand dunes shift and swirl in Sahara-like deserts in Utah and New Mexico. Ancient rivers spill from a mountain range in Colorado that was a precursor to the modern Rockies. Such flights of geologic fancy are now tangible through the thought-provoking and beautiful paleogeographic maps, reminiscent of the maps in world atlases we all paged through as children, of Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau.Ron Blakey of Northern Arizona University is one of the world's foremost authorities on the geologic history of the Colorado Plateau. For more than fifteen years, he has meticulously created maps that show how numerous past landscapes gave rise to the region's stunning geologic formations. Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau is the first book to showcase Blakey's remarkable work. His maps are accompanied by text by Wayne Ranney, geologist and award-winning author of Carving Grand Canyon. Ranney takes readers on a fascinating tour of the many landscapes depicted in the maps, and Blakey and Ranney's fruitful collaboration brings the past alive like never before.Features: More than 70 state-of-the-art paleogeographic maps of the region and of the world, developed over many years of geologic research Detailed yet accessible text that covers the geology of the plateau in a way nongeologists can appreciate More than 100 full-color photographs, diagrams, and illustrations A detailed guide of where to go to see the spectacular rocks of the region
Download or read book Exploring the Southwest s Grand Circle written by Mark A. Schlenz and published by Companion Press (Santa Barbara, CA). This book was released on 1988-05 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the unparalleled scenery of the American Southwest -- enter its Grand Circle. Beautifully illustrated with full-color photos.
Download or read book Hiking the Southwest s Geology written by Ralph Hopkins and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2002-12-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiking the Southwest's Geology: Four Corners Region takes curious hikers on a journey through time that explores the Colorado Plateau -- an immense land of canyons, mesas, and isolated mountain ranges in the American Southwest. Divided into representative geologic provinces/areas, author Ralph Hopkins specifies distinct geologic or scenic features and provides information about what makes each province unique. He describes each hike from the perspective of the geologic evolution of the landscape while exploring basic geologic concepts and providing a framework for understanding the major forces that have shaped the land. Hopkins' stunning color photography brings the Four Corners Region to life in dazzling detail.
Download or read book Fire on the Plateau written by Charles F. Wilkinson and published by Shearwater Books. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book recounts my journey through the Colorado Plateau, a journey through place and time and self.... During my explorations of more than three decades, I found a land that sears into my heart and soul, a place that has taught me and changed me. I also discovered a land of conflict and endurance, a land that has given birth to one of the great chapters in American history." --from the Introduction The Colorado Plateau, stretching across four states and covering nearly 80 million acres, is one of the most unique and spectacular landscapes in the world. Remote, rugged, and dry -- at once forlorn and glorious -- it is a separate place, a place with its own distinctive landscape, history, and future.In Fire on the Plateau, legal scholar and writer Charles Wilkinson relates the powerful story of how, over the past thirty years, he has been drawn ever more deeply into the redrock country and Indian societies of the Colorado Plateau. His work in the early 1970s as staff attorney for the newly formed Native American Rights Fund brought him into close contact with Navajo and Hopi people. His growing friendships with American Indians and increasing understanding of their cultures, along with his longstanding scholarship and experiences on federal public lands, led him to delve into the complicated history of the region.Wilkinson examines that history -- the sometimes violent conflicts between indigenous populations and more recent settlers, the political machinations by industry and the legal establishment, the contentious disputes over resources and land use -- and provides a compelling look at the epic events that have shaped the region. From centuries of habitation by native peoples to Mormon settlement, from the "Big Build-Up" of the post-World War II era to the increased environmental awareness of recent years, he explores the conquests of tribes and lands that have taken place, and the ways in which both have endured.Throughout, Wilkinson uses his own personal experiences as a lawyer working with Indian people and his heartfelt insights about a land that he grew to love to tie together the threads of the story. Fire on the Plateau is a vital and dynamic work that is sure to strike a chord with anyone interested in the past or future of the American Southwest.
Download or read book Four Corners USA written by Jim Turner and published by . This book was released on 2018-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Way out on the Colorado Plateau, two lines cross at right angles, forming the borders of four states. You can stand on this spot and be in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah all at the same time. This book covers the area roughly 150 miles around that point, a land of fantastic rock formations, ancient dwellings, and diverse cultures. Multiple national parks and monuments have been set aside to preserve the Four Corners' wonders. Nature's rainbow of colors paints these vast landscapes and barren badlands where sandstone rock sculptures grace majestic canyons. Join us in a tour of these remarkable places with 126 brilliant photographs to get a feel for this unforgettable land and its people.
Download or read book Grand Circle Adventure written by Allen C. Reed and published by Kc Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the spectacular 900 - mile circle around Lake Powell, including 15 national park areas, as well as state parks, historical sites, and Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.
Download or read book Those who Came Before written by Robert Hill Lister and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a substantially revised and expanded overview of the legacy of prehistoric cultures of the American Southwest, as preserved and interpreted by the National Park Service in more than 37 sites. The DVD explores the monumental architecture and finely crafted arts created by the ancestral culture of the Southwest while telling how explorers, ranchers, and scholars pieced together the history of these ancient Indians. The DVD features menu-based chapter selections, English language subtitle option, and a transcript of the narration in a DVD-ROM content area for computer users.--From publisher.
