Southwest Books of the Year
Complete List
The following is a list of geographically correct titles that have crossed the desk at Southwest Books of the Year in the last 12 months. Not included are a few whose subject matter didn't make the regional cut such as cowboys in Canada and Latinos in New York City.
The books are listed alphabetically by title. Scan them and come up with a list of your own for good reading from the year 2000.
* Indicates the title is found on a panelist's best reading list.
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Accidental Ambassador Gordo: The Comic Strip Art of Gus Arriola
by Robert C. Harvey and Gus Arriola. University Press of Mississippi, $50 cloth, $25
paperback.
The story of Arriola's break-through bean farmer, Perfecto Salazar Lopez, known
affectionately as “Gordo,” is told here by his creator. “Gordo”
carried a small cast of characters and a rich array of Mexican folklore, traditions and
culture to 270 American newspapers at the comic strip's peak.
Along Route 66 by Quinta Scott. University of Oklahoma, $34.95.
This fabled modern highway between 1926 and 1956 was The Way Out, as residents of the
troubled southwest plains states followed it to California and opportunity writ large.
*Ambush at Bloody Run: The Wham Paymaster Robbery of 1889 - A Story of Politics,
Religion, Race and Banditry in Arizona Territory
by Larry Ball, Arizona Historical Society Press, $34.95.
*Amor Eterno: Eleven Lessons in Love
by Patricia Preciado Martin. University of Arizona Press. $11.95 paper. $24.95,
cloth.
Anasazi America: 17 Centuries on the Road from Center Place
by David E. Stuart. University of New Mexico Press, $29.95 cloth, $17.95 paper.
At the height of their power in the late 11th century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a
territory in the American southwest larger than any European principality of that time.
"Every archaeologist, every student of anthropology and anyone interested in the
future of industrial society should read this stimulating essay."
*The Apache Diaries: A Father-Son Journey by Grenville Goodwin & Neil Goodwin. University of Nebraska Press/Bison Books, $29.95.
Apache Voices : Their Stories of Survival as Told to Eve Ball
edited by Sherry Robinson. University of New Mexico Press, $32.95.
In the 1940s and 1950s, Eve Ball (1890-1984), in Ruidoso, N.M., began taking down verbatim
the accounts of Apaches elders who had survived campaigns against them by the U.S. Army.
Ball realized she was talking with sons and daughters of Geronimo, Cochise, Victorio and
their cohorts.
The Archaeology of Regional Interaction: Religion, Warfare and Exchange Across
the American Southwest and Beyond
edited by Michelle Hegmon. University Press of Colorado, $65.
Proceedings of the 1996 Southwest Symposium.
Architecture of the Ancient Ones Photographs by Val Brinkerhoff, text
by A. Dudley Gardner. Gibbs Smith Publisher, $19.95 gatefold paperback.
An associate professor of photography at Brigham Young, Brinkerhoff has spent five years
visiting and photographing the ruins of the Ancient Ones. Gardner is an historical
archaeologist at the University of Western Wyoming.
Arizona's Greatest Golf Courses by Bill Huffman. Northland Publishing,
$24.95 paper, $40 cloth.
The former Arizona Republic golf writer has put together a book so gorgeous and appealing
that you almost forgive these guzzlers all the precious water they use up.
Arizona Twilight Tales: Good Ghosts, Evil Spirits and Blue Ladies by
Jane Eppinga. Pruett Publishing, $16.95.
Sharp, vivid account of eerie hauntings in Arizona.
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Beginning with Chiles by Mary Lou Creechan and Jim
Creechan. Tiengui del Norte Publishing distributed by the University of Arizona Press,
$19.95.
More about chiles and what to do with them than you thought there was to know.
Bereft: A Sister's Story by Jane Bernstein. North Point Press. Farrar,
Straus & Giroux $24.
Bernstein's sister was an Easterner murdered in Tempe.
Birds of the American Southwest by Lynn Hassler Kaufman. Rio Nuevo
Publishers, $9.95.
The 86 colorful species that make their homes in this diverse region of deserts,
grasslands, riparian areas and “sky island” mountain ranges, are depicted in
full color and described in this handy volume.
Black Cowboys of Texas edited by Sara R. Massey. Texas A&M
University Press, $29.95.
From scattered courthouse records, writings and interviews with the African American
cowhands who were part of the history of Texas, 25 writers here recount tales of the
African Americans of the Old West and the 20th century.
(Children's Fiction) Blanca's Feather by Antonio Hernandez Madrigal
with illustrations by Geraldo Suzan. Rising Moon Press, $15.95.
Rosalia wants to take her hen, Blanca, to be blessed. But Blanca turns up missing.
*The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams by Nasdijj. Houghton Mifflin, $23.
*Blue Mountains Far Away: Journeys into the American Wilderness by Gregory McNamee. The Lyons Press, $22.95.
The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder by David
Quammen. Scribner, $24.
A collection of Quammen essays published in Outside magazine between 1981 and 1996.
Borderlands: Western Stories by Jane Candia Coleman. Five Star Press,
$21.95.
A collection of new short stories in both historical and contemporary settings.
Brigham's Day by John Gates. Walker & Company, $23.95.
The murder and subsequent trial of a Kanab, Utah resident sets off a journey into the
past.
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*Cavern by Jake Page. University of New Mexico Press, $24.95.
A Century of Great Western Stories edited by John Jakes. Forge, $27.95.
Not exclusively southwestern but a few gems from our part of the country.
Chiricahua Apache Women and Children, Safekeepers of the Heritage by H.
Henrietta Stockel. Texas A&M University Press, $24.95.
Stockel, a part-time researcher on special projects at Cochise Community College, has
spent more than a decade moving among the Chiricahuas with remarkable freedom.
*Cidermaster of Rio Oscuro by Harvey Frauenglass. University of Utah Press, $21.95.
Cinema Southwest: An Illustrated Guide to the Movies and Their Locations
by John A. Murray. Northland Publishing, $21.95.
Regional movie buffs should enjoy this trip into the past of Western movies.
A Cowful of Cowboy Poetry by Baxter Black. Coyote Cowboy Company.
$24.95.
National Public Radio's resident cowboy poet makes common articles and events of daily
living, such as a pickup truck or a trip to town, seem not only uncommon, but downright
lyrical.
Coyote At Large: Humor in American Nature Writing by Katrina
Schimmoeller Peiffer. University of Utah Press. $19.95.
Taking the symbol of a coyote as “trickster,” Peiffer looks for humor in
environmental writing.
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*Dancing Alone in Mexico: From the Border to Baja and Beyond by Ron Butler, University of Arizona Press, $17.95 paper,. $40 cloth.
*Dancing on the Stones; Selected Essays by John Nichols. University of New Mexico Press, $16.95 paper, $39.95 cloth.
*Dead Weight: A Sheriff Bill Gastner Mystery by Steven Havill. St. Martin's Press, $23.95.
Desert Honkytonk: The Story of Tombstone's Bird Cage Theatre by Roger
Bruns. Fulcrum, $17.95.
First you ate oysters at the Crystal Palace then you moseyed over to the Bird Cage to
watch Lily Langtry perform. That was Lily, wasn't it?
Desert Sojourn: A Woman's Forty Days and Nights Alone by Debi
Holmes-Binney. Seal Press, $14.95.
An account of a spiritual, soul-searching retreat into the desert made by a 30-ish
business woman.
The Desert: Words and Art by Karl Julius Schwenke. Three Paths Press,
$8.95.
Schwenke observes the desert in rhyme. “Where are you whither/So all in a dither/ Why
all the hurry/You quail who scurry/The desert will wait.”
Devil's Claw: A Joanna Brady Mystery by J.A. Jance. William Morrow,
$24.
Joanna Brady, Jance's redoubtable sheriff of Cochise County, balances her
professional and personal life as she strives to deal with a hatful of greedy, evil
goings-on in her own corner of rural America.
Dry Rivers and Standing Rocks: A Word Finder for the American West by
Scott Thybony. University of New Mexico Press, $24.95 cloth; $14.95 paper.
Thybony describes his book as, “something resembling a thesaurus of western
geography.”
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El Coyote: The Rebel: A Nonfiction Novel by Luis Perez. Arte Publico
Press, $12.95.
El Coyote was originally published in 1947. It is in Arte Publico's “Pioneers of
Modern U.S. Hispanic Literature,” series.
(Children) Elegy on the Death of Cesar Chavez by Rudolfo Anaya, Gaspar
Enriquez, illustrator. Cinco Puntos Press, $16.95.
After Chavez's death in 1992, New Mexico Chicano novelist Anaya wrote this poem
echoing Shelley's elegy on the death of John Keats.
El Indio Jess: A Novel by Gilberto Chavez Ballejos and Shirley Hill
Witt, University of Oklahoma Press, $24.95.
Vignettes filled with a lively wit and a laconic wisdom about life along the U.S. Mexican
border.
El Puente,The Bridge by Ito Romo, University of New Mexico Press, $18.95.
Thirteen women, all ages and all backgrounds, living in a small South Texas town, react in
unexpected, humorous and mysterious ways the day the Rio Grande River runs crimson red.
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Focus Guide to the Birds of North America by Kenn Kaufman. Houghton
Mifflin, $20.
Tucsonan Kaufman's new book is beautifully organized for quick and efficient
identification.
(Young Adult Fiction) Forced Journey by John Duncklee. Barbed Wire
Publishing Service, $8.95.
Quiet Water, introduced by Duncklee in Quest for the Eagle Feather, once again
must decide between his white birth heritage and the Hopi family that raised him.
Forging the Tortilla Curtain: Cultural Drift and Change Along the United
States-Mexico Border From the Spanish Era to the Present
by Thomas Torrans. Texas Christian University Press, $29.95.
An exploration of the history of the 2000-mile long borderlands separating Mexico and the
U.S. where primitive conditions and poverty exist alongside the luxuries of the
computerized Information Age.
The Fox and the Whirlwind: General George Crook and Geronimo, a Paired Biography
by Peter Aleshire. John Wiley & Sons, $30.
Geronimo and his nemesis, U.S. Army General Crook, burdened by immense cultural
differences.
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The Gallup 14, a Novel by Gary L. Stuart. University of New Mexico
Press, $24.95.
Gallup native and Phoenix lawyer Stuart has put together a docudrama based on the 1935
slaying of a Gallup, N.M. sheriff during a mine workers' riot with its subsequent
murder trial.
*Gatewood and Geronimo by Louis Kraft. University of New Mexico Press, $19.95 paper, $49.95 cloth.
*The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan. Knopf, $25.
*The Grand Canyon and the Southwest by Ansel Adams, edited by Andrea Gray Stillman. Bulfinch Press, $21.95.
Greetings From Grand Canyon, AZ, Gibbs Smith Publisher, $8.95. Here is a collection of 20 vintage postcards depicting one of the world's great picture post card spots. The photos were taken in the 1920s and 1930s. They just need a stamp to mail.
*A Guide to Hopi Katsina Dolls by Kent McManis. Rio Nuevo Publishers, $9.95.
A Guide to Navajo Sandpaintings by Mark Bahti with Eugene Baatsoslanii
Joe. Rio Nuevo Publishers, $9.95.
Bahti, trader, teacher and scholar on the subject of Native American arts, describes the
history and development of the healing art of sand paintings.
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Hecho a Mano: The Traditional Arts of Tucson's Mexican American Community by James Griffith. University of Arizona Press, $17.95 paper, $29.95 cloth. Intended to be the program for an exhibit of arts and crafts at the UA Museum of Art in 1997.
Hispanics in the Mormon Zion 1912-1999 by Jorge Iber. Texas A&M
University Press, $34.95.
Iber looks at the Hispanic history and culture in Utah.
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Images: Tucson at the Millennium
A compilation of 100 photographs of Tucson. This largely visual presentation was the joint
effort of a number of organizations including the Tucson Citizen newspaper, the Tucson
Museum of Art and The University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography. It is
currently available at TMA for $10.
In a Village Far From Home—My Life Among the Cora Indians of the Sierra Madres
by Catherine Finerty. University of Arizona Press, $16.95.
For seven years, retired New York professional Finerty teamed with the Catholic church to
work as an ad hoc village nurse among the Cora Indians and local mestizos in a remote
Mexican settlement
*Indian Basketmakers of the Southwest by Larry Dalrymple. Museum of New Mexico Press, $29.95 or $60.
Indian Trader: The Life & Times of J.L. Hubbell by Martha Blue. Kiva
Publishing, $32.50.
Anglo-Hispanic Hubbell was a pioneer Indian trader. He played many roles from businessman
to politician.
An Introduction to Grand Canyon Pre-history by Christopher M. Coder. Grand
Canyon Association, $8.95.
A comprehensive book written for popular consumption by archaeologist Coder.
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The Journey of Navajo Oshley: An Autobiography and Life History edited by
Robert S. McPherson. Utah State University Press, $19.95.
Ake Nidzin or Navajo Oshley, a Navajo hand trembler, was born sometime between 1879
and 1893. His oral memoir is set on the northern frontier of Navajo land.
*The Judas Judge: A Kevin Kerney Novel by Michael McGarrity. Dutton, $23.95.
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The Kachina and the Cross: Indians and Spaniards in the Early Southwest
by Carroll L. Riley. University of Utah Press, $34.95.
Histories of the Southwest have concentrated on the Spanish presence. Riley, an emeritus
professor of archaeology at Southern Illinois University, uses new research to view the
troubled first century of Spanish-Pueblo relations.
Kachinas in the Pueblo World edited by Polly Schaafsma. University of Utah
Press, $19.95.
In a re-issue of Schaafsma's now out of print 1994 book, 13 scholars examine the role
of kachinas.
*Kiss of the Bees by J.A. Jance. Avon Books, $24.
Kit Carson and the Indians by Tom W. Dunlay. University of Nebraska Press,
$45.
Dunlay, a freelance writer and historian, presents the frequently maligned Carson as a man
of the 19th century whose racial views and actions were much like those of his
contemporaries.
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The Lost Mariah: A Novelby Sharman Apt Russell. University of New
Mexico Press, $19.95.
Essayist Russell goes back in time more than 11,000 years when the southwest was covered
with tall grass, bison, mammoths and wolves roamed, and the hunter gatherers we now call
the Clovis Peoplelived.
The Lawless Land by Dusty Richards. St. Martin's Paper, $5.99.
The Border Gang is savaging the honest citizens of Southern Arizona. In this well written
volume in a continuing series on territorial marshals.
*Lives on the Line: Dispatches from the U.S. Mexico Border by Miriam Davidson. University of Arizona Press, $17.95 paper, $35 cloth.
The Lobo Outback Funeral Home by Dave Foreman. University Press of
Colorado, $24.95.
Eco-warrior Foreman is back again.
Little Grey Men: Roswell and the Rise of a Popular Culture by Toby Smith.
University of New Mexico Press, $24.95.
Smith, an award-winning journalist, examines media and movie accounts of aliens in our
culture.
(Children's Fiction) Little Gold Star/Estrellita de Oro: A Cinderella
Cuento
by Joe Hayes, Illustrated by Gloria Osuna Perez. Bilingual English/Spanish. Cinco Puntos
Press, $15.95.
A delightful take on the old Cinderella story that involves birds, cow horns, donkeys and
stars.
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Mabel's Santa Fe and Taos: Bohemian Legends 1900-1950 by Elmo
Baca. Gibbs Smith Publisher, $29.95.
A collection of wonderful stories emanating from the life and times of this colorful grand
dame of southwestern transplants.
Mama's Santos: An Arizona Life by Carmen Duarte.The Arizona Daily
Star, $2.
Now available in book form, this colorful, honest, poignant account of the lives of
Arizona Daily Star journalist Carmen Duarte's family, ran as a serial in the
newspaper, later available in tabloid form.
Midnight at the Camposanto: A Taos Festival Mystery by Mari Ulmer.
Poisoned Pen Press, $23.95.
A Penitentes ceremony and its resultant death sets a widowed lawyer lady on the trail of a
devious killer. Expected to be the first in a series.
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*A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert edited by Steven J. Phillips with Patricia Wentworth Comus and written by the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Staff. University of California Press, $24.95 paper, $55 cloth.
Nature of Madera Canyon by Douglas W. Moore. Friends of Madera Canyon,
$17.95.
A great deal of information gathered about one of Southern Arizona's prime picnic and
birding areas.
Nature of Madera Canyon by Douglas W. Moore. Friends of Madera Canyon,
$17.95.
A great deal of information gathered about one of Southern Arizona's prime picnic and
birding areas.
Nature's Extremes: Eight Seasons Shape a Southwestern Land by
Lawrence Cheek. Arizona Highways, $34.95.
Beautiful Arizona Highways photography backs up former Tucsonan Cheek's contention.
Native Peoples of the Southwest by Trudy Griffin-Pierce. University of New
Mexico Press. $24.95 paper, $49.95 cloth.
Provides viewpoints of the Native Americans themselves as well as ethnographic research.
Navajo Places: History, Legend and Landscape by Laurance D. Linford.
University of Utah Press, $24.95 paper, $60 cloth.
Through years of research, interviews and consultation with Navajo authorities, Linford,
trained as an archaeologist, has compiled a place-name guide that includes the entire
Navajo homeland. There are more than 1,200 entries as well as a pronunciation guide.
News From the Volcano by Gladys Swan. University of Missouri Press,
$17.95.
A collection of five gritty, poignant short stories set in the southwest.
*Night Sky, Morning Star by Evelina Zuni Lucero, University of Arizona Press, $16.95 paper.
*Not All Okies Are White: The Lives of Black Cotton Pickers in Arizona by Geta LeSeur. University of Missouri Press, $19.95.
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OK: The Corral, the Earps and Doc Holliday by Paul West. Scribner, $24.
The focus here is on Doc Holliday. West is an accomplished writer, but separating fact
from fiction, wheat from chaff in this oft-told tale of Western high binders is growing
increasingly less intriguing.
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*Phoenix: A Brother's Life by J.D. Dolan. Knopf, $22.
Plticas: Conversations with Hispano Writers of New Mexico edited by
Nasario Garcia. Texas Tech University Press, $27.95.
Garcia, a professor at New Mexico Highlands University talks with six delightful,
contemporary Hispanic writers.
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*The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams. Knopf, $25.
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*Rain: Native Expressions from the American Southwest by Ann Marshall. TheHeard Museum and the Museum of New Mexico Press, $32.50.
Ranch Dog: A Tribute to the Working Dog in the American West by Marianne
Murdock and Nancy Burgess. Willow Creek Press, $12.95.
Through a combination of short essays and cowboy poetry, Ranch Dog celebrates the
integrity, personality, love of work and loyalty of the working ranch dog.
The Real Wyatt Earp: A Documentary Biography by Steve Gatto, with Neil
Carmony, editor. High Lonesome Books, $14.95 paper, $30 cloth.
Steve Gatto has sifted through vivid newspaper accounts, court records and documents to
give us Wyatt Earp from birth to death, as his friends and enemies knew him.
Recollections of Twisting Tails and Trails by Barry Freeman. Barbed Wire
Publishing Services distributed by Treasure Chest Books, $22.95.
Described as “an Arizonan to the tips of his boots,” Freeman has put his
successful career in ranching and range management down on paper.
River of Souls: A Novel of the American Myth by Ivon Blum. Sunstone Press,
$28.95.
A view of mid-19th century western history taken from personal diairies.
*A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell by Donald Worster. Oxford University Press, $35.
Roughstock: The Toughest Events in Rodeo, photographs and text by John
Annerino, Four Walls Eight Windows Press, $45.
From California to Virginia, Annerino documents Native American, African American,
all-women and traditional rodeos with gritty, action-packed behind the chutes photos.
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Sacred Legacy: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian by Edward
S. Curtis. Christopher Cardozo, editor. Simon & Schuster, $60.
Curtis roamed the Indian countries of the West around the turn of the 20th century.
Safe Delivery by Jim Sanderson. University of New Mexico Press, $21.95.
Set in San Antonio, the author of El Camino del Rio, has produced what one critic called,
“a wonderful, unique mixture of a smart crime novel, a classy love story and a hard
vision of the Southwest.”
*Saints of the Southwest by Jim Griffith. Rio Nuevo Publishers, $14.95.
Salado edited by Jeffrey S. Dean. University of New Mexico Press with the
Amerind Foundation. $49.95.
The culmination of the Roosevelt Archaeological Project in Southern Arizona's Tonto
Basin. The Salado culture flourished from the 13th to the 15th centuries.
The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends and Lore by David Dary. Knopf.
$30.
Retired journalist Dary indulges his lifelong interest in this storied commercial lifeline
that connected the West and the East for more than 200 years.
Saving the Gray Whale: People, Politics and Conservation in Baja California
by Serge Dedina. University of Arizona Press, $17.95 paper, $37.50 cloth.
Dedina details the threat to the Gray Whale and the pople who devoted money, time and
energy to its successful preservation.
Scrapbook of a Taos Hippie: Tribal Tales from the Heart of a Cultural Revolution
by Iris Keltz. Cinco Puntos Press, $20.95.
Thirty years ago the hippie culture was at its zenith and Taos, New Mexico, was its
beating heart.
*A Season on the Reservation: My Sojourn With the White Mountain Apache by Kareem Abdul -Jabbar. William Morrow, $24.
*The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert by Craig Leland Childs. Sasquatch Books, $23.95.
Selected Poetry by Cecilio Garcia-Camarillo. Arte Publico Press, $12.95.
The host of one of New Mexico's longest running arts and public affairs programs,
“Espejos de Aztln,” has gathered his poetry together from 13 chapbooks to make
this one comprehensive volume.
Semaphores & Desert Rails by James E. Staggs. West Press, $25.
Staggs was born in Tucson in 1929. In the summer of 1947 he got a job in the Southern
Pacific Co.'s Tucson Division Signal Department. In 1950, he was drafted for the
Korean War and upon his return took up another profession.
The Serpent and the Sacred Fire: Fertility Images in Southwest Rock Art by
Dennis Slifer. Museum of New Mexico Press, $16.95 paper, $35 cloth.
Fertility has been identified as one of the most obvious and persistent themes in rock
art. The record is resplendent with symbols of birth, death and procreation.
Southwest Flavor: Adela Amador's Tales from the Kitchen. New Mexico
Magazine, $9.95.
Organized seasonally, this spiral-bound cookbook containing more than 80 recipes takes its
name from Adela Amador's popular food column in The New Mexico Magazine.
Southwest Style: A Home-Lovers Guide to Architecture and Design by Linda
Mason Hunter with photographs by Peter Vitale. Northland Publishing, $40.
Hunter and Vitale have concentrated their research in Santa Fe, N.M.
Spirit Sickness by Kirk Mitchell. Bantam, $23.95.
An investigation of the deaths of a Navajo Tribal police officer and his wife. At the
heart of this mystery is a complex mix of Navajo mythology—a bloodthirsty myth of the
Moth People—and superstition.
The Sporting Club by Sinclair Browning. Bantam paper, $5.50.
Set in Tucson, Browning's second outing for her protagonist, Trade Ellis, part Apache
ranchwoman and private eye, focuses on repressed childhood memories of violence and abuse.
Standing Up Country: The Canyon Lands of Utah and Arizona by C. Gregory
Crampton, orig. published 1964, 1983. Rio Nuevo Publishers, $16.95.
A classic in its field Crampton's “biography,” of the sandstone country of
southeastern Utah and northeastern Arizona is deservedly back in print.
*Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Western Region by Kevin J. Colver with Donald and Lillian Stokes. Time Warner Audio Books, booklet and 3 cassettes, $34.98.
*The Stolen Blue: A Claire Reynier Mystery by Judith Van Gieson. University of New Mexico Press, $22.95. Signet, $5.99.
*The Summoning God: Book Two of the Anasazi Mysteries by Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear. Forge, $25.95.
Sundown Legends: A Journey into the American Southwest by Michael
Checchio. Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, $22.95.
The author of A Clean Well-Lighted Stream, pursues everything from trout fishing
in New Mexico to discovering the way to Taos in a journey of rediscovery of our past,
present and future.
Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains by Susan Elderkin. Grove /Atlantic Monthly
Press, $24.
The story of an obese Englishman, a young girl, a Slovakian shoemaker and an ice cream man
whose lives converge in the Arizona desert.
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Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon by Maria Endrezzer. University
of Arizona Press, $16.95 paper, $29.95 cloth.
Historical and mythical accounts of the Yaqui Indians interwoven with personal views by a
Yaqui/European author who lives in Seattle.
*Traditional Hopi Kachinas, A New Generation of Carvers by Jonathan S. Day. Northland Publishing, $14.95.
Trails to Tiburon: The 1894-95 Field Diaries of W.J. McGee
annotated by Bernard L. Fontana and transcribed by Hazel McFeely Fontana. University
of Arizona Press (Southwest Center Series), $35.
The transcribed handwritten field notes of ethnographic research among the Tohono
O'Odham and the Seri Indians. McGee was a self-taught, 19th century scientist.
The Trial of Don Pedro Leon Lujan: The Attack Against Indian Slavery and Mexican
Traders in Utah
by Sondra Jones. University of Utah Press, $27.50.
A setting straight of a record that not only impacts southwestern history but the history
of America's struggle to eradicate slavery.
The Tropical Deciduous Forest of Alamos: Biodiversity of a Threatened Ecosystem in
Mexico
edited by Robert H. Robichaux and David A. Yetman. University of Arizona Press, $50.
Tucson Cooks. Primavera Foundation distributed by the University of
Arizona Press, $24.95.
Sixty outstanding Tucson establishments provide their favorite recipes to benefit the
Tucson Primavera Society.
Tucson: High Desert Harmony by the Ronstadt Family. Towery Publishing,
$49.95.
Sponsored by the Greater Tucson Economic Council, High Desert Harmony combines the story
of the Ronstadt family with a century of the growth of the city.
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*Under the Sun: A Sonoran Desert Odyssey by Adriel Heisey. Rio Nuevo Publishers, $40.
*Up Close: A Lifetime Observing and Photographing Desert Animals by George Olin. University of Arizona Press, $19.95 paper, $45 cloth.
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Vato, poem by Luis Alberto Urrea, photos by Jos Galvez. Cinco Puntos
Press, $19.95.
Tucsonan and Pulitzer Prize winner Galvez teams up with writer Luis Alberto Urrea to
produce a book of photos featuring Mexican-American men.
*The View From Bald Hill: 30 Years in an Arizona Grassland by Carl E. Bock and Jane H. Bock. University of California Press, $16.95 paper, $45, cloth.
Vision and Enterprise: Exploring the History of Phelps Dodge Corporation
by Carlos Schwantes. University of Arizona Press, $60.
Intended to be definitive, compiled with the cooperation of the company.
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West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the Western American Frontiers
by Noreen Groover Lape. Ohio University Press, $24.95 paper, $59.95 cloth.
A selection from the work of 19th century African American, Asian, Anglo and Native
American writers.
West Texas: A Portrait of Its People and Their Raw and Wondrous Land by
Mike Cochran and John Lumpkin. Texas Tech University Press, $34.95.
An affectionate look at a part of the country where residents like to kid themselves but
don't for one moment doubt that they live in God's Country.
Wilderness and Razor Wire by Ken Lamberton. Mercury House, $14.95.
Originally published in 1999, Lamberton's view of the natural world comes from seeing
it through prison bars.
*Wildflowers of the Southwest Desert by Meg Quinn. Rio Nuevo Publishers, $9.95.
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*The Yellow Ribbon Snake by J.R. Dailey. John Daniel & Co, $12.