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Books to read if you're planning a vacation in "Southwest", sorted by average review score:

The Interpreter's Handbook (Technical Series - Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, No. 8)
Published in Paperback by Southwest Parks & Monuments Association (June, 1976)
Author: Russell K. Grater
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designing educational programs for the park service
Primarily designed for rangers in the National Park Service, but relevant for many related fields. How to give educational programs. Chapters: Qualities of a good interpreter, Planning the interpretive program, The problem of communication, Illustrated and non-illustrated talks, Guided walks and tours, Self guidance methods and devices, Interpretation through demonstrations, Interpretation for children and for foreign visitors, The visitor center or museum, Campfire circle and amphitheater, Audio visual devices, and Looking ahead.


Jackson and Madison County: A Pictorial History
Published in Hardcover by Donning Company Publishers (December, 1988)
Authors: Emma Inman Williams, Marion B. Smothers, and Mitch Carter
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A look at life in the Mid-South through photography
Jackson, Tennessee (Madison County) is located ninty miles east of Memphis; a rail, distribution and agricultural center for Western Tennessee.

Settled in the late 1700's-early 1800's; this area produced Davey Crockett, many Civil War heroes, Casey Jones, and Carl Perkins.

A wonderful look at a fine quality-of-life area that has grown from "small town" to the fifth largest city in Tennessee.

Emma Inman Williams was not only a shepherd of the book but a layer of the city's foundation.

I knew her and loved her.


John Selman, Gunfighter
Published in Paperback by Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) (June, 1992)
Author: Leon Claire Metz
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excellent source of life in Texas after the Civil War
Leon Metz creates a very fine life portrait of John Selman. Information about him seems scarce until Elpaso Texas, but Metz provides valuable information about life in the lawless days of Texas, thourgh exhaustive research. Metz's book allows the reader to create his own image and opinion of Selman. I thought the book read quite quickly, very informative, and entertaining. Anyone interested in The Old West, I highly suggest reading!!!


Kingsport Tennessee: A Planned American City
Published in Hardcover by University Press of Kentucky (November, 1987)
Author: Margaret Ripley Wolfe
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Good overview of industrialization of small southern town
Kingsport's population peak during WWII has never returned again, despite a half century of growth by annexation. Professor Wolfe has done a very fine job of archival research and interviews to enlighten the reader. Though her survey is more critical, obviously, than a publication each decade of the 90's by the local Rotary Club, Wolfe ads the human element and anecdotal illustrations to complement the Rotary's advertising bent.

City builder J. Fred Johnson has become a legendary and almost apocrypha figure for this town in the foothills of Southern Appalachia. Middle class factory workers and country club executives dominated this city during the 20th century. But the 21 century has arrived as industrial downsizing is taking a toll.

Wolfe tells the true story as it really happened, 'warts and all.' Hopefully either Professor Wolfe or someone else will fill in more details and produce a future volume that fills in the gaps of the history of this city whose most prominent claim to fame is the hometown and idyllic setting of Lisa Alther's veiled trashy novel, "Kinflicks."


Kodi's mare
Published in Unknown Binding by Abelard-Schuman ()
Author: Bonnie Highsmith
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Kodi's Mare
I gave this book five stars because it's a very interesting
book. Kodi was sent to a school, but he didn't want to live with
out Willow, which was the horse, so he escaped. The days past and finally Kodi got to where Willow was. Kodi and Willow thougt that they were saved but they weren't because the man that bought
Willow, found Kodi and Willow. Kodi and Willow started to run.
The part that I liked most of all, is when Willow jumped a crack in the sand and it was like 6 feet long.
I liked this book because it tells how friendship can take you
anywhere.


Land of the Canyons
Published in Spiral-bound by Graphie International, Inc. (06 May, 1998)
Author: Laurent, R. Martres
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Excellent southwest tour guide for photographers
Excellent tips on where and how to get the best photographs in the southwest. Tells where to go, what time of day and how to take photogrpahs of outstanding desert southwest locations. I travel extensively and found this book pointing out exciting photo opportunities that I had missed. The book is specificlaly for photogrpahers.


The Last Conquistador: Juan De Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies, Vol 2)
Published in Paperback by Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) (March, 1993)
Authors: Mark Simmons and Marc Simmons
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The real Onate
Many have made their views of Onate and opinions clear here around New Mexico, but few have ever made even a slight reference to the men around Onate ... the time Onate lived in, but alas, Marc Simmons has a captivating impartial review of the infamous Onate.


Legacy on Stone: Rock Art of the Colorado Plateau and Four Corners Region
Published in Paperback by Johnson Books (September, 1990)
Author: Sally J. Cole
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Excellent overall guide
This book takes a look at many of the different rock ar symbols and their possible meanings. While not a complete guide to all of the sites, I think it's an excellent companion to the Polly Schaafsma books. It's a little light on pictures, but overall, an excellent reference.


Life of Tom Horn, Government scout and interpreter : a vindication
Published in Unknown Binding by Jingle Bob/Crown Publishers ()
Author: Tom Horn
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Intriguing, couldn't put it down!
Rather well written. Tom's 'feelings'and his 'struggle', for his own life, from a jail cell. This is his 'view' of what was happening to him, before his hanging. Anyone, interested in the "last days" of the American "Wild West", should read this book!


A Journey to Persia: Jean Chardin's Portrait of a Seventeenth-Century Empire
Published in Hardcover by Palgrave Macmillan (January, 1996)
Authors: John Voyages Du Chevalier Chardin En Perse, Et Autres Lieux Chardin, Ronald W. Ferrier, and Jean Chardin

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