This book contains selections from Nicholas Callaway's other O'Keefe books- One Hundred Flowers, In the West, and New York Years. If you own only one of them, this is the one to own. There are some surprising paintings in here, especially if you've only seen the flower paintings before. The book is quite large, and the color reproductions seem pretty accurate from the few paintings I've actually been able to compare. Wonderful book!

An absolutely gorgeous book of Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings of the southwestern United States. It's large size and fine reproductions make it one of my most treasured possessions!

Thanks to The Univ. Of Arizona Press the long-awaited anthology of contemporary writing abouth the southwestern desert is finally available. While not the first anthology of this awesome area it is the first in over a decade to feature the best efforts of over 50 new generation contemporary writers that see the area through other than green-colored glasses. The region known as the "southwest" is, and has historically been,difficult too precisely define. From the time of John Wesley Powell to the present scholars and writers have struggled to define the region geographically. To paraphrase author Anthony DePalma, "We know the Southwest exists, but we do not know the Southwest." The editor of this anthology ultimately decided to accept Wallace Stegner's definition as being an area where water is scarce: "aridity, and aridity alone, makes the various West's one." Thus, this wonderful collection includes areas in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Idaho,Montana, Washington, Oregon, and California. To be sure, it is a somewhat loose definition but what a collection this is. Organized around four themes or categories: "Watching Closely; Forays in Natural History"; Risking Experience: Adventures in the Wild"; "Living Close to the Land"; and "Taking a Stand: Voices of Conservation and Restoration," the reader is introduced to the Greater Southwest through fiction and nonfiction, field notes and poetry. The journey will take you to Chaco Canyon in New Mexico and a family farm in south Texas. You will visit a Nevada Test Site and take a white water trip down the green river than ends all to soon. The short story on the release of Bison in the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve near Pawhuska, Ok. was both delightful and inspiring. The story of the San Rafael Swell in southern Utah and it's place in the making of the atomic bomb, combined with an essay by T.H. Watkins titled "Not by Human Measure". will give the reader an idea of the magnificence of the region. The selections, in some 70 pieces and 400 pages, celebrate the grace, beauty and grandeur of a region little known and mostly misunderstood. These are wide-ranging efforts to explain the sometimes almost unexplainable in an area historically, and increasingly, under siege. There are those that argue such a book will only lead to more tourists and visitors to a region that has a fragile ecosystem and cannot tolerate much more "understanding." They argue that if to many heed the warning of Wallace Stegner: "you have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to het used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time," this treasure will go the way of Glen Canyon, parts of the Colorado River, the Rio Grande and other one-time natural wonders. At the expense of contributing to this possibility I must highly recommend this book. For anyone remotely interested in the southwest region or reading some of the best of the best contemporary nature writers published today, get this book. The University of Arizona Press is to be commended for this effort. It took a decade to get it published but was worth the wait.

This book was soooo good! I read it and thought that this guy knows his ghosts. I would also recomend books by Dainel Cohen. Both of these authors are very, very good. The pictures are also wonderful. This is a must read if you like ghost books!

Paul Wellman's "God, Glory and Gold", the three reasons why the Spaniards came to the New World, is a marvelous history book that should be read by anyone who lives in the Southwest or the West. Besides being historically accurate in even minor details, Mr. Wellman is the only author of history who makes it read like a fast-paced novel. His love for the Southwest and the West is evident! Read it - you won't be disappointed - and, you'll have a new appreciation for the "growing pains" of the United States west of the Mississippi.

Cy & Jeannie Martin give you a crash course in the history and practice of gold mining in the western U.S. (including Alaska), Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia. Sections of the book include: Chronology of Gold in America; How to Pan for Gold; Tales of Gold Rushes; Directory of Old Mining Camps; Glossary; and a Selected Bibliography. Numerous B& W photos and drawings are included. 160 pages.

I doubt if any living American over the age of 21 is completely ignorant of the halcyon vision of WACs in the South Pacific during WWII. Well, that vision isn't very accurate. Selene Weise knows; she was one of very, very few WACs to actually serve in the area.

A cryptographer, Weise found herself in seemingly endless mud, rain, stifling heat, and misery living in tents with no creature comforts, mind-blowing boredom, and even some danger. With grossly inadequate food, an Army totally unprepared to meet even minimal needs of women, and supply lines that were often non-existent, the WACs just had to hunker down and endure. But through it all, Weise and her fellow WACs did just that. In the end, she came out of it with three battle stars; a rare thing for a woman soldier.

The book is remarkable not only for its unique story, but for the riveting method Weise uses to tell it. With only minimal fill-in, Weise reconstructs her experiences from letters she wrote home to her mother during the war. This gives the work a immediacy and sincerity that would be difficult to match. While trying hard to remain upbeat and positive about appalling conditions, Weise maintains a sense of humor and perspective that is commendable.

WWII is passing into history with fewer and fewer who remember. Of those, even fewer are aware women served too, let alone served in the South Pacific. Not only is this book a splendid history lesson, it's an outstanding good read. Brava!

Every salsa in this book contains chiles (New Mexican approved spelling ) from the hottest of tiny chiltepins, to the bland but pleasing familiar green bell. Salsa in Mexico means sauce and applies to both cooked and uncooked preparations. Now that salsa has surpassed ketchup as the nation's most popular condiment, this book rushes in to teach us how to concoct them all, from true Mexican, to New Mexican to Tex-Mex to tropical. Consider apple-citrus salsa for seafood, apricot ginger red chile salsa for roast pork, pickled cactus and tequila salsa for chips.

This was an interesting and well-written book. I'm sorry to see that it's out of print. It contains a lot of interesting information on the desert's plans, animals, and geology. It appeared to be very well researched. and the author seemed to have a great appreciation for this unique part of the country. If you are interested in the desert I would recommend that you try to find a copy of this book.

Very informative, very interesting. I am familiar with the Harvey House, and what I didn't realize was that once the original artifacts were sold that the Harvey House influenced the types of arts and crafts that were being made, even the designs, and the size, based on the fact that tourists were only able to carry items of certain size. Even colors were influenced by the Harvey Company. I remember the Harvey House women in Newton, Kansas. They wore starched uniforms and looked very nice, almost like nurses. This book was not only informative, but it evoked memories. Highly recommended. It gave me a sense of sadness that all of these artifacts were collected to be sold. This was big business. Harvey House was feeding a voracious appetite for things "Indian." At the same time, they were helping to sustain the Native American people who were trying to cope with a changing world. Sam L.