The author John A. Murray really wrote a work of love on movies and their southwest location (California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas). From such diverse films such as High Plains Drifter; Leaving Las Vegas; Sergeant Rutledge; Thelma & Louise; Jerimah Johnson; Easy Rider; and Tender Mercies. If you travel through parts of the Southwest (including the mystical ones) then your journey's will be a bit more enjoyable having been to the spot where Clark Cable, Montgomery Clift and Marylin Monroe created the Misfits! My trips have been more interesting! Cheers!

Movie lovers and afficionados of the western genre films...this book is for you. Author, John Murray packs each page with photos and movie stills of films that were shot in the American southwest. Along with recognizable movie scenes from classics and contemporary films are tidbits and information on the filmmakers, the actors and the locations. Cinema Southwest is a joy to read and you will pick this book up again and again.

Wow. I've been in Dallas/Irving area fifty years (since 6 mo. old) and when I picked up this book to take a look, I was amazed at all the places to go I didn't know about! I bought a copy and have enjoyed browsing its offerings! What a great gift for anyone new to the area. What am I talking about? I'm not new! It'll make a great gift - period! A must though for newcomers - hey, real estate people, what an idea for new home buyers coming into the area! And there's so many different great tid bits of info. Thanks to the author for all her work making the Metroplex a breeze to enjoy!

I picked this book up as a gift for a client who was staying a week in Dallas and had never been to Texas before. He went through the book and picked places he wanted to go, and apparently had a grand time, because he still raves about his trip.

As I didn't get the book back, I had to purchase another copy and was surprised to see how many interesting places there are in the Metroplex that even I didn't know about (and I've lived here for nearly forever.) I've since recommended this book to my company for future visiting clients and trainees.

Great source of information, excellent organization and primo insight on "must sees".

When I landed in LA, it took me a good 3 months to find a series of haunts, owing simply to the sheer size of the place. This book breaks it down by neighborhood, "scene," and type of venue, so that the only other guide you need is a Thomas guide (the ubiquitous, highly detailed road map that occupies the back seat of every car in Southern California). Great insider info, seedy backstories, and a dead-on dissection of the various scenes make this a great introduction to America's most puzzling megalopolis. Fodors would be hard pressed to top this.

Great book, especially for the young and young at heart. Unlike most other city guides I see this one really appears to be written by insiders who genuinely seem to know what they're talking about. Useful for both visitors to the city as well as people who are already in LA. The book is well structured with separate sections on eating out, nightlife, shopping, culture & arts, lodgings and many more. If you want to know where the current "in" places are and the real inside information on LA then this is the guide for you.

As a lifetime Westerner and Civil War buff, I can't say enough good about this book. It covers the major issues and events of a war that stretched over great distances. While there weren't that many people living in the West at that time, Josephy shows us how the events of the Civil War shaped what the West would become.

This is a good reference for the participation of many then-territories (now states), for just about all battles in the Trans-Mississippi theatre, for the participation of Native tribes on both sides, and for the social impact of the war in areas where there was little or no actual fighting. It is rounded out by well-done maps with an elegant feel.

A definite for your Civil War library, particularly if the Western view is of interest.

Josephy does an excellent job of giving the broad overview of the Civil War in the American West. From paroled Confederates fighting Native Americans in the upper Mid West to a Confederate attempt to take California to the many battles in the bayous of Louisiana, Josephy tells in a riveting fashion the story of those men who fought so far from the better-known battlefields of the East.

The biggest flaw with the book -- and some might consider it a feature -- is that the reader is likely to be left wanting more information. In tackling as large a swath of time and geography as Josephy has, it is inevitable that readers will find them looking for additional sources of information on the U.S. West in the 1860s.

My mom came from Cuba with this book in tow not knowing how to cook,needless to say she now is making fabulos cuban dishes and she credit this book which is so wornout I'm happy to find it At Amazon.com for her and my entire family.The book makes cooking easy,which she liked since in 1961 she never cooked a thing.Thanks Amazon.com

If you speak Spanish and you like to cook this is a book for you. It depicts all the Cuban favorites. I had this book for years and in so many moves and changes lost it. I am happy to have found it again (only amazon.com!!!) and now I will be able to recreate all those wonderful dishes.

Wonderful stuff: this is the human nature school of romance at its very best. Anne McAllister is one of my favourite authors anyway and this collection is a dream.

The heroes are to die for. I think my favourite is Luke, the wounded soul. Then I think, no what about Noah the bad boy making good. Or no, its Taggart, the loving father and good citizen who puts a lid on any needs of his own in case they go bad on him again.

These are not fantasy cowboys. They work hard at their profession and have the broken bones to prove it. The heroines have real issues too - and some seriously invasive friends and neighbours. To say nothing of family. Love the bit where Taggart is trying to get his seven year old to listen and all she does is point her boots in and out, for instance.

Never been so glad of a happy ending - well three, this book is pure self indulgence - in my life. Love brings self- realisation and healing in The COde of the West. Red hot sex, too.

To everyone who mocks the romance genre I say, read Anne McAllister and eat your words, suckers!

Three of Anne McAllister's BEST all in one book! In fact, I already have the three books COWBOYS DON'T QUIT, COWBOYS DON'T STAY, and THE COWBOY AND THE KID, but I still want this one. That way when I re-read McAllister's great cowboys I don't have to get up between books...I just get to keep on wallowing in cowboys! Each book alone is worth 5-stars, so I'm giving this one FIFTEEN!

I believe that some of Muench's more recent work is better than this. However, that being said, this is still the best Colorado photography book I have seen. So if you're looking for Muench's best work, I'd recommend Ancient America, Nature's America, or Plateau Light. If you're looking for the best book (to date) on Colorado, I'd buy this one.

This is a beautiful coffee table book. The photos do justice to breath-taking Colorado. Great gift!

We've been to Colorado a number of times but had no idea most of the sites described ever existed. I guess that's because most guidebooks don't include things accessable only by dirt roads. If you have or can rent a four wheel drive, this is a must.

Gregory knows Colorado and has written the best travel companion for Southern Colorado. Like Scenic Colorado - Northern Region, this volume is tighly constructed to offer the traveler the best, in-depth information for enjoying the region. Included are very detailed directions to breathtaking sights that most would miss without Gregory's assistance. Also included are very accurate suggestion on how long you'll want to plan to visit a site, best times of day to take photos at the site and many other helpful tips. Knowing Colorado as he does, Gregory shares both his knowledge, and passion, for the region with his readers in a well prepared text that allows the traveler to discover and enjoy the state in a way usually reserved for the natives.

I bought this book when I first moved here. I wanted to find some fun things to do. I was suprised at all the different events that this book covers. Some are more interesting than others but all in all a great book I have tried a few of there reccomendations and would agree with the author's conclusions.

Colorado's Best By Bruce Calighey and Doug Whitehead

Reviewed by Curt Peoples

With so much travel information on the Internet, I sometimes wonder: Why do authors continue to write travel books? Colorado's Best answers the question by showing that the best travel authors still write about places they've personally visited and enjoyed. If you like Colorado (or think might like Colorado), you should buy this book.

The authors are well qualified. Bruce Calighey has written The Colorado Guide, now in its fourth edition. Doug Whitehead produces Colorado Getaways, a weekly travel television show in Denver - he's like the Charles Kuralt of Colorado.

The authors take you to every corner of the state, with over 200 entries of the best cultural and historical places, outdoor activities and events, and places to eat, drink and stay. The book entertains because the "bests" listed are truly remarkable, sometimes bizarre and not always on the beaten track. My three favorites: Best Way to "Get in the Mood" at the Glen Miller Festival in Fort Morgan, Best Hot Springs at Mount Princeton, and Best Drive-In Without a Car in Monte Vista.

Most atypical, compared to many travel guides, is the writing style: personal and thoughtful with a tone that says, "I really like this place, I think you will too!" I want to take my daughter to the Kit Carson County Carousel because the authors have done it themselves, stopping for a short rest and staying for hours. I want to go to Crested Butte because it's apparent Mr. Calighey and Mr. Whitehead have been there, sampled the restaurants, and now recommend the four best in town. They suggest a few hills they've skied that I've never seen in the slick brochures.

Best piece of writing in the book: the description of the Sand Creek Massacre Memorial. It starts, "Certainly 'best' isn't the most precise word to describe this simple, yet hauntingly affecting memorial to the brutal and unjustified murder of American Indians by U.S. troops, but the event without question merits consideration." In four poignant paragraphs, you'll be compelled to learn more about the lost ways of traditional Native American life. This is what travel writing should be.

Love Tony and Price Shadowbrook, a husband and wife writing team who are entertainingly portrayed in a hidden west locale full of adventures and struggles. Price fights for her place in the co-writing and comforts a new friend and widow who suspects her husband's death wasn't accidental. Tony fights for a private place to write while tourists traipse through their unusual summer home. Meanwhile, their adult kids provide complications. It's fun and inspirational reading.

I highly recommend all of Stephen and Janet's books. I was able to meet them Labor Day weekend 1999(after having written to them for several years). They are such a wonderful couple as well as great authors. I can't wait until the next book comes out, no matter what the series is!