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Arizona: A History
by Thomas E. Sheridan
Considered by many to be the best, most comprehensive history of Arizona available today. |
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Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
by John Neihardt
Neihardt records the life story and world view of Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux holy man who claimed to have been present at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. |
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
by Wallace Stegner
A biography of John Wesley Powell, the ethnologist and geologist of the Southwest who was the first European to travel the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. |
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A Bride Goes West
by Nannie T. Alderson and Helena Huntington Smith
Alderson and her husband moved to Montana when the Great Plains cattle boom peaked and soon plunged. |
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Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life
by Robert M. Utley
This biography is a comprehensive look at "The Kid," from his teenage years and first crimes until his death in New Mexico in 1881. |
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A Colorado River Reader
edited by Richard F. Fleck
Fleck’s anthology encompasses Native American creation myths as well as contemporary nonfiction. Seventeen entries reflect people’s relationships with the Colorado River. |
