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Author	Title	Section	Media	Description/Keywords
Howarth, Sam Bk Enrique R. Lamadrid	Pilgrimage to Chimayo	Art/Photo		Hispanic Catholicism and the journey of Pilgrims to the Santuario de Chimayo--the most popular religious pilgrimage in North America.
Obata, Chiura	Topaz Moon	Art/Photo		Art of the Japanese internment during WWII.
Reynolds, Deon Bk Jon Christensen	Nevada	Art/Photo (O)		Photos of Nevada by Reynolds, essay by Christensen. (Oversized)
Anzaldua, Gloria	Borderlands: The New Mestiza	Chicano/a Studies		Psychological, sexual, spiritual, and physical borderlands. Borders, class, boundaries, women's studies.
Crawford, Stanley	Mayordomo	Chicano/a Studies		Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico.
deBuys, William Bk Alix Harris	River of Traps	Chicano/a Studies		The meeting of Hispanic and Anglo cultures in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of New Mexico on the Rio de las Trampas.
Allaby, Michael	Oxford Dictionary of Ecology	Ecology		Comprehensive and authoritative guide to ecological terminology. 5,000+ entries.
Brown, David E. (Ed.)	Biotic Communities: Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico	Ecology		Catalogs and defines biotic communities according to climate, physiognomy, distribution, dominant and common plant species, and characteristic vertebrates. Photographs and appendix included.
Butler, Tom (Ed.)	Wild Earth	Ecology		Wild ideas for a world out of balance: pieces from the first ten years of the conservation journal Wild Earth.
Halfpenny, James C.	Scats and Tracks of the Desert Southwest	Ecology		Field guide to the signs of 70 wildlife species.
Imhoff, Daniel	Farming with the Wild	Ecology		Enhancing biodiversity on farms and ranches; a new vision for conservation-based agriculture.
Jenson, Edward C. and Charles R. Ross	Trees to Know in Oregon	Ecology		Simple, bare-bones guide to Oregon trees.
Johnson, Charles Grier Jr.	Common Plants of the Inland Pacific Northwest	Ecology		Handy reference for identifying vascular plants in the intermountain northwest. Contains important and common plants encountered in the forests, shrublands and grasslands between the cascades and northern Rockies.
Larson, Peggy	Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide: The Deserts of the Southwest	Ecology		Field guide describing the Great Basin, Mohave, Chihuahuan, and Sonoran Deserts.
MacMahon, James A.	Deserts	Ecology		Fully illustrated with color photographs of wildflowers, birds, reptiles, insects, and natural wonders of North American deserts from Oregon to Mexico.
Miller, Millie	Sierra: The Mountain Flower Book	Ecology		Pocket-guide to sierra plants and wild flowers.
National Audubon Society	Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior	Ecology
Oregon Biodiversity Project and Defenders of Wildlife	Oregon's Living Landscape	Ecology		An interactive introduction to Oregon's biodiversity.
Russell, Sharman Apt	Anatomy of a Rose	Ecology		The secret lives of flowers: the science behind how flowers evolve, survive and heal.
Sayre, Nathan F.	New Ranch Handbook: A Guide to Restoring Western Rangelands	Ecology		Progressive, environmentally innovative ways to conduct ranching make conservation and ranching compatible.
Sibley, David Allen	Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America, The	Ecology		703 bird species, 4,600 illustrations.
Stubbendieck, James, et al.	North American Range Plants	Ecology		Field guide to all things grassland/prairie. Fully illustrated.
Whitney, Stephen	Audubon Society Nature Guides: Western Forests	Ecology		Fully illustrated with color photographs of trees, wildflowers, birds, mammals, and insects of North American Western forests. From Alaska to California and the Rockies.
Whitney, Stephen	Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide: The Sierra Nevada	Ecology		Guidebook to the natural history and ecology of the Sierra Nevada in four zones: the western foothills, the forest belt, the alpine zone, and the pinyon-sagebrush zone.
Whitson, Tom D. et al.	Weeds of the West	Ecology		Help identifying non-native and invasive species of plants which compete with native plants, crops, and which harm livestock.
Alexie, Sherman	Toughest Indian in the World, The	Essays		Short Stories: Indians we rarely see in literature, depictions of real Indians and their struggles.
Berry, Wendell and Norman Wirzba (Ed.)	Art of the Commonplace, The	Essays		Twenty one essays offering an agrarian alternative to urban culture.
Brown, Beverly A.	In Timber Country	Essays		Short Stories: Working people's stories of environmental conflict and urban flight; Southwest Oregon, logging, Rogue Valley.
Clow, Deborah Bk Donald Snow (Eds.)	Northern Lights	Essays		A selection of writing from the finest writers in the American West, from Ed Abbey to Terry Tempest Williams.
Finch, Robert and John Elder	Norton Book of Nature Writing, The	Essays		Collected works of classic and contemporary nature writers.
Fishtrap, Inc.	Anthology 9	Essays		Short Stories: Creative writing from Growing Up, Fishtrap anthology Winter 1999, and Borders, Fishtrap anthology Summer 1999.
FREE and Gallatin Writers, Inc.	Liberty and Land Use	Essays		Readings concerning property rights, freedom, and land use in the West.
Hess Jr., Karl Bk John A. Baden	Writers on the Range	Essays		Western writers exploring the changes facing the New American West.
High Country News	Living in the Runaway West	Essays		The best of partisan views pulled "Writers on the Range."
Hugo, Richard	Triggering Town, The	Essays	x5	Lectures and essays on poetry and writing.
Kittredge, William	Owning it All	Essays		Memoir: Autobiographical essays delving into the myths of land, manhood, and manifest destiny--and their effect on our lives today.
Kittredge, William	Who Owns the West?	Essays		Sustained meditation on what it means to be a Westerner today.
Knight, Richard L., Wendell C. Gilgert, Ed Marston	Ranching West of the 100th Meridian	Essays		Rural agriculture in the American West: why ranching matters, testimonies of those involved in preserving the working landscapes of the West.
Lightman, Alan (Ed.)	Best American Essays	Essays		21 essays from American writers, including Terry Tempest Williams and Wendell Berry.
Marston, Ed (Ed.)	Reopening the Western Frontier	Essays		Selections from High Country News about economics, environmentalism, politics, and the future of the West.
Meloy, Ellen	Anthropology of Turquoise, The (Autographed)	Essays	x2	Meditations on landscape, art, and spirit; a series of essays on the West.
Peavey, Diane Josephy	Bitterbrush Country	Essays		Living on the edge of the land: seasons of a ranching life. Vignettes of life from the bitterbrush country of Idaho.
Slovic, Scott	Getting Over the Color Green	Essays		Anthology of contemporary nature writers, fiction and nonfiction, all celebrating the unique vitality and complexity of the southwest, proving that there is more to nature than the color green.
Sojourner, Mary	bonelight	Essays		Ruin and grace in the new southwest: Essays on Sojourner's transition from tourist to defender of Southwest lands and the people who live there.
Houston, Pam	Cowboys are my Weakness	Fiction		Stories about a "thing for cowboys."
Houston, Pam	Waltzing the Cat	Fiction		Eleven stories following photographer Lucy O'Rourke as she survives multiple outdoor adventures.
Polanksi, Roman with Jack Nicholson/Faye Dunaway	Chinatown	Fiction		Film Noir and water issues in pre-war Southern California, Jack Nicholson stars as detective Jake Gittes.
Russell, Sharman Apt	Last Matriarch, The	Fiction		An account of a clan inhabiting the plains of the Southwest 11,000 years ago.
Silko, Leslie Marmon	Ceremony	Fiction		WWII veteran returns from Japan to Laguna Pueblo reservation and must cope with feelings of estrangement and alienation.
Foster, Lynn	Adventuring in the California Desert	Guide/Tour		Sierra Club travel guide to the Great Basin, Mojave, and  Colorado Desert regions of California.
Gersh-Young, Marjorie	Hot Springs Bk Hot Pools of the Northwest	Guide/Tour		Descriptions and directions to hot springs throughout British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming.
Gersh-Young, Marjorie	Hot Springs Bk Hot Pools of the Southwest	Guide/Tour		Descriptions and directions to hot springs throughout Arizona, Baja, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Hawaii.
Kelsey, Michael R.	Canyon Hiking Guide to the Colorado Plateau (4th Edition)	Guide/Tour		Detailed maps and photographs of great hikes in Colorado, Utah, and Arizona.
Kelsey, Michael R.	River Guide to Canyonlands National Park and Vicinity	Guide/Tour		Hiking, camping, geology, archaeology and steamboating, cowboy, ranching Bk trail building history.
Parent, Laurence	Hiking New Mexico (Falcon Guide)	Guide/Tour
Ward, Greg	Rough Guide to Southwest USA	Guide/Tour		Topical and complete guide to towns, canyons and deserts of the southwest. Reviews of parks, motels, casinos, cuisine.
Ambrose, Stephen E.	Undaunted Courage	History		Lewis, Jefferson, and the opening of the American west.
Belew, Ellie	About Wallowa County	History		People, places, images from Wallowa County, Oregon.
Cronon, William (Ed.)	Uncommon Ground	History		Rethinking the human place in nature: legislating humans out of wilderness is no solution to environmental problems. Essays reassess the environmental agenda.
deBuys, William	Enchantment and Exploitation	History		Human history of the Sangre de Cristo mountains of Northern New Mexico.
Decker, Peter R.	Old Fences, New Neighbors	History		Isolated Ouray County, Colorado--how a small, rural community is dealing with new visitors and changes in the West.
Ebright, Malcolm	Land Grants and Lawsuits in Northern New Mexico	History		The history of New Mexico's land grants from Spain and Mexico to present-day land and water lawsuits. Property rights.
Egan, Timothy	Lasso the Wind	History	x2	Travel writing, historical reflection, and polemic, a study of the West: how it became what it is and where it's going.
Farquhar, Francis P.	History of the Sierra Nevada	History		Illustrated history of the Sierra Nevada mountains and the surrounding regions.
Hevly, Bruce and John M. Findlay	Atomic West, The	History		The history of atomic energy and nuclear testing and its impact in the allegedly empty expanses of the American West.
Houghton, Samuel G.	Trace of Desert Waters, A	History		Geological, ecological, and social history of the Great Basin.
Limerick, Patricia Nelson	Something in the Soil	History		How the history of the American West influences the growth and development of the modern West.
Meloy, Ellen	Last Cheater's Waltz, The	History	x2	Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest: Cultural history, nuclear/ toxic waste, meditations on the Southwest.
Rothman, Hal	Neon Metropolis	History	x6	How Las Vegas started the 21st century: Las Vegas as the quintessential city of the future.
Stegner, Wallace	Beyond the Hundredth Meridian	History		John Wesley Powell and the second opening of the West: the successes and frustrations of Powell and his understanding of the American West.
Stone-Manning, Tracy Bk Emily Miller	River We Carry With Us, The	History		Selected works from two centuries of writing from the Clark Fork basin.
Wilson, Chris Bk David Kammer	La Tierra Amarilla	History		History, architecture, and cultural landscape of a poor and obscure region of New Mexico.
Worster, Donald	River Running West, A	History		The life of John Wesley Powell.
Zinn, Howard	People's History of the United States	History		A an insightful look into the history of the United States through different perspectives.
Lindsay, Joe	Up Shit Creek	Humor		Horrifyingly true wilderness toilet misadventures.
Abbey, Edward	Best of Edward Abbey	Lit		Thirty one selections from the author's collected works.
Abbey, Edward	Earth Apples	Lit		The poetry of Ed Abbey, edited by David Petersen.
Berryman, John	Dream Songs, The	Lit		Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1965.
Galvin, James	Meadow, The	Lit		The hundred year history of a meadow and the seasons, wildlife, and people that visit it.
Gish, Robert Franklin	Beyond Bounds	Lit		Cross cultural essays on Anglo, American Indian, and Chicano literature.
Harjo, Joy	In Mad Love and War	Lit		Poems of nature and humanity in the West.
Herrera, Juan Felipe	Border Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream	Lit		Mexican Americans-Poetry.
Hugo, Richard	Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir, The	Lit		Hugo (1923-1982) born and raised in White Center, Washington. World War II veteran. Director of creative writing at U. of Montana.
Merrill, Christopher (Ed.)	Forgotten Language, The	Lit		Contemporary poets and nature.
Olds, Sharon	Gold Cell, The	Lit		American poetry.
Ortiz, Simon J.	Out There Somewhere	Lit		Native American poetry from New Mexico. Acoma Indians.
Tapahonso, Luci L.	Saani Dahataal, the Women are Singing	Lit		Memories of Shiprock, New Mexico. Navajo Indians.
Walka, Ann Weiler	Walking the Unknown River	Lit		Travels in Escalante Country: essays and poetry investigating the Escalante, the hidden heart of the Colorado Plateau.
Blunt, Judy	Breaking Clean	Memoir		Narrative describing growing up in a ranching family and Blunt's desire to escape that culture.
Duncan, David James	My Story as Told by Water	Memoir		Confessions, Druidic rants, reflections, bird-watchings, fish-stalkings, visions, songs and prayers refracting light, from living rivers, in the age of the industrial dark.
Kittredge, William	Hole in the Sky	Memoir		The story of a pioneer ranching family's decline and fall; the end of a way of life.
nasdijj	blood runs like a river through my dreams, the	Memoir		Native American life in the Southwest
Russell, Sharman Apt	Songs of the Fluteplayer	Memoir		Russell's experiences trying to create a life for herself in the Southwestern desert.
Spragg, Mark	Where Rivers Change Direction	Memoir		Coming of age memoir about Wyoming, wind, dust, hunting, loneliness…
Stegner, Wallace	Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs	Memoir		16 Essays: stories of Stegner's migration through the boom and bust towns of the West in the early 20th century.
Aton, James M. Bk Robert S. McPherson	River Flowing from the Sunrise	Nat. History		An environmental history of the lower San Juan (Utah).
Austin, Mary	Land of Little Rain, The	Nat. History		Lyrical tribute to the desert, published 1903.
Baars, Donald L.	Colorado Plateau, The	Nat. History		Geology of red rock and canyon country of the Four Corners area.
Bishop, Ellen Morris	In Search of Ancient Oregon	Nat. History		Pictorial explanation of Oregon's geological past and present.
Childs, Craig	Secret Knowledge of Water, The	Nat. History		Treks through arid lands in search of water.
Fillmore, Robert	Geology of the Parks, Monuments, and Wildlands of Southern Utah	Nat. History		Explanations of the geologic features of Capital Reef, Bryce Canyon, Zion, and Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument.
Geologic Society of the Oregon Country	Roadside Geology of the Eastern Sierra Region	Nat. History		Bodie, Mono Lake, Yosemite, June Lake, Devil's Postpile, Convict Lake, White Mountains.
McPhee, John	Basin and Range	Nat. History		A book of journeys through ancient terrains in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world. Tries to develop an understanding of the behavior of the land from eastern California to eastern Utah.
Orr, Elizabeth L., William N. Orr, Ewart M. Baldwin	Geology of Oregon (4th Edition)	Nat. History		Comprehensive overview of Oregon's geology.
Stokes, William Lee	Geology of Utah	Nat. History		Comprehensive timeline of Utah's geology.
Trimble, Stephen	Sagebrush Ocean, The	Nat. History (O)		A natural history of the Great Basin. (Oversized.)
Castleton, Kenneth B.	Petroglyphs and Pictographs of Utah Vol. 1	Native Americans		Utah rock art: The East and Northeast.
Castleton, Kenneth B.	Petroglyphs and Pictographs of Utah Vol. 2	Native Americans		Utah rock art: The South, Central, West, and Northwest.
Childs, Craig	Soul of Nowhere	Native Americans		Traversing grace in a rugged land: finding life in places where others fear to tread, tracing history left behind in the form of potshards and other relics.
Churchill, Ward	Struggle for the Land	Native Americans		Native North American resistance to genocide, ecocide and colonization.
Cole, Sally J.	Legacy on Stone	Native Americans		Rock art of the Colorado Plateau and Four Corners region.
Griffin-Pierce, Trudy	Native Peoples of the Southwest	Native Americans		Comprehensive look at Native American cultures in the United States: Pueblos, Hopi, Zuni, Pimans, Yaqui, River Yumans, Upland Yumans, Apache, Navajo, Southern Paiute.
Hall, Edward T.	West of the Thirties	Native Americans		Discoveries among the Navajo and Hopi: an explanation of the sacredness of Native American life.
Keyser, James D.	Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Plateau	Native Americans		A reference and guide to questions about petroglyphs and pictographs from British Columbia to Oregon to the continental divide.
Landeen, Dan Bk Allen Pinkham	Salmon and his People	Native Americans		Fish and Fishing in Nez Perce Culture, a Nez Perce guide to Nature, particularly fish.
Nabhan, Gary Paul	Desert Smells Like Rain, The	Native Americans		A naturalist in O'odham country: ecology, social, and natural history of the Tohono O'odham people in southern Arizona.
Patterson, Alex	Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest	Native Americans		Interpretation of American rock art from Mexico to Utah, California to Colorado.
Vivian, R. Gwinn Bk Bruce Hilpert	Chaco Handbook, The	Native Americans		Encyclopedic guide to the history and culture surrounding Chaco canyon.
Western Shoshone Defense Project	Digging Holes in the Spirit	Native Americans		Gold mining and the survival of the Western Shoshone nation.
Abram, David	Spell of the Sensuous, The	Politics/Econ/Philosophy		Abram draws on stories, philosophies, to reveal the dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. Perception. Foundations of language.
Baden, John A. and Donald Snow	Next West, The	Politics/Econ/Philosophy		Public lands, community, and economy in the American West: essays outlining possible futures for the American West.
Bellah, Robert N., Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton	Habits of the Heart	Politics/Econ/Philosophy	x2	Individualism and commitment in American life: exploring the traditions Americans use to make sense of themselves and society.
Brick, Phillip, Donald Snow, Sarah van de Wetering	Across the Great Divide	Politics/Econ/Philosophy	x3	The phenomenon of collaboration as a way for westerners to handle environmental challenges.
Dryzek, John S.	Politics of the Earth	Politics/Econ/Philosophy		Environmental discourses: an introduction to ways of thinking about the environment based on how people use the language of environmental issues.
Dryzek, John S. and David Schlosberg (Eds.)	Debating the Earth	Politics/Econ/Philosophy		The environmental politics reader: diverse political perspectives on environmental issues.
Goodman, Doug Bk Daniel McCool	Contested Landscape	Politics/Econ/Philosophy		Framing the debate over who should have control over public lands in the West.
Gottlieb, Robert	Environmentalism Unbound	Politics/Econ/Philosophy		Exploring new pathways for change: proposal of a new strategy for social and environmental change that involves linking environmental justice and pollution prevention.
Gunter, Tara Rae	Wallowa Resources: Beyond Green and Brown -Collaborative Resource Management in the Interior West: Case Study #4	Politics/Econ/Philosophy		Published results from: Workshop on Collaborative Management of the Interior West.
Hawken, Paul, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins	Natural Capitalism	Politics/Econ/Philosophy		Economics: Creating the next industrial revolution: an alternative economic model where successful businesses draw profit from are responsible environmental actions.
Keiter, Robert B.	Keeping Faith with Nature	Politics/Econ/Philosophy	x6	Ecosystems, democracy, and America's public lands: public land policy, new ecological management ideas, collaborative conservation. Examines the developments which change the way we view public lands.
Kemmis, Daniel	This Sovereign Land	Politics/Econ/Philosophy	x5	A new vision for governing the west: a history of federal control and western resentment over public lands. Ideas for a non-paternalistic system of federal administration.
Liz Claiborne and Art Ortenberg Foundation	View from Airlie, The	Politics/Econ/Philosophy		Community based conservation in perspective: a narrative sampling of discussions from the Community Based Conservation Workshop held in Airlie, Virginia.
Minteer, Ben A. and Bob Pepperman Taylor	Democracy and the Claims of Nature	Politics/Econ/Philosophy		Discussing the role of democratic politics in making environmental choices.
Minteer, Ben A. and Robert E. Manning	Reconstructing Conservation	Politics/Econ/Philosophy		Finding common ground: reevaluation of classical conservation traditions and its value to contemporary environmentalism.
Pezeshki, Chuck	Wild to the Last	Politics/Econ/Philosophy		Environmental conflict in the Clearwater country. Northern Idaho. Logging. Timber industry.
Pulido, Laura	Environmentalism and Economic Justice	Politics/Econ/Philosophy		Chicano Struggles in the Southwest: pesticides, Hispano cooperatives. How minority groups using available resources to improve their social, economic, and environmental conditions.
Rivera, Jose A.	Acequia Culture	Politics/Econ/Philosophy		Conflicts surrounding water, land, and community in the southwest. Highlights legal status of community institutions. Irrigation.
Swanson, Holly	Set up and Sold Out	Politics/Econ/Philosophy		Connections between the Communist and Green movements: Communists question the agenda of the Greens.
Van de Wetering, Sarah B.	Reintroduction of Grizzly Bears in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness of Idaho and Montana - Collaborative Resource Management in the Interior West: Case Study #9	Politics/Econ/Philosophy		Published results from: Workshop on Collaborative Management of the Interior West.
Ward, Chip	Canaries on the Rim	Politics/Econ/Philosophy		Living downwind in the West: local activism, chemical, environmental fallout.
Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission	Water in the West: Challenge for the Next Century, June 1998	Politics/Econ/Philosophy		Overview of the status of the West's water and the pressures requiring changes in management of that resource.
Wolf, Tom	Malpai Borderlands Group: Science, Community, and Collaborative Management- Collaborative Resource Management in the Interior West: Case Study #9	Politics/Econ/Philosophy		Published results from: Workshop on Collaborative Management of the Interior West.
Yandle, Bruce	Land Rights	Politics/Econ/Philosophy		Economics: The 1990s property rights rebellion: a chronicle of the courts' failure to enforce the constitutional protection of property rights.
Zimmerman, Michael E. et al	Environmental Philosophy	Politics/Econ/Philosophy		From animal rights to radical ecology: recent essays offering philosophical discussions of current environmental thought.
Wuerthner, George Bk Mollie Matteson eds.	Welfare Ranching	Politics/Econ/Philosophy (O)		The subsidized destruction of the American West through ranching. (Oversized.)
Center of the American West	Atlas of the New West	Ref		Complete with numerous graphs, maps, charts, illustrations and tables explaining what exactly comprises the "New" West.
French, Christopher W.	Stylebook and Libel Manual	Ref		The journalist's bible: punctuation, libel cases, grammar rules, style, spelling, and usage for over 156,000 terms. Advice for writers.
Fujishin, Randy	Natural Speaker, The	Ref		Guide to public speaking.
Guignard, Lilace Mellin	Field Guide to the Norton Book of Nature Writing, A	Ref
National Park Service	Bison Management Plan for the State of Montana and Yellowstone Park. Final Environmental Impact Statement	Ref		Executive summary and volumes 1, 2, and 3.
National Park Service	Leave No Trace	Ref		The Leave No Trace program builds awareness, appreciation, and respect for the outdoors. Video introduces the LNT principles. 9.5 Minutes