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The author gives "just the facts" that rockhounds need to know to find their way to the best collecting sites in the Beehive State and what mineral samples, rocks, and formations are to be found there.

Guide to sixty-three major routes in the area for hikers and climbers of all skill levels. Includes maps, water sources, length, hazards, historic information, elevation gain, difficulty, etc. Nine area maps and thirty detailed road descriptions ensure that time will not be wasted finding trailheads. This book documents for the first time four natural bridges and the single largest arch in the area.
256 pages

High quality, detailed photographs and thoughtful interpretive text delve into the mystery surrounding Southwestern Rock Art.

Fascinating, comprehensive guide to the unique legacy and many varieties of rock art found in Utah.

Profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings from hundreds of sites. These volumes are among the most complete records of Utah rock art available. This volume is the first of two on the rock art, especially the prehistoric rock art, of Utah. Volume I deals only with the rock art of northeastern and eastern Utah.

Profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings from hundreds of sites. These volumes are among the most complete records of Utah rock art available. Volume Two focuses on the Great Basin and extreme Southeastern Utah.

This is the first specifically designed key to the interpretation of American rock art. The Field Guide brings together 600 commentaries on specific symbols by over one hundred archaeologists, anthropologists, researchers and Native American informants.

Sabra Moore offers a treasury of faithful artistic renderings of ancient native art from all regions of the North American continent. A description accompanies each of her illustrations, providing information on the location of the drawing, painting, or incised image, the culture from which it came, and what is known about its significance and meaning for the people who created it.

A comprehensive guide to Kokopelli figures, prehistoric handprints, and other enigmatic symbols featured in Western rock art.

Detailed visual and spiritual portrayals of the community, individuality, and human nature of Native Americans. Edward S. Curtis’ photographs evoke the images, but the words are their own. From Mourning Dove to Chief Seattle, from Lone Man to Red Cloud, here is the timeless wisdom of Native Americans. Popular miniature format.

We recognize the philosophy of the original Americans as coming from the earth we walk on, from those who preceded us. As we read the wisdom of these peoples, it is possible to feel a reconnection with our land and ourselves. This beautiful collection of the best of Native American wisdom features the wisdom of Cheif Joseph, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Black Elk, Ohiyesa and many others.

Includes history, contemporary tribal affairs, arts and crafts, changing lifeways, and cultural and social characteristics that set apart each native American group in the Southwest.

In this volume, the editor and authors endeavor to write the history of Utah's first residents from an Indian perspective. An introductory chapter provides an overview of Utah's American Indians and a concluding chapter summarizes the issues and concerns of contemporary Indians and their leaders.

For all peoples on all continents and for all times, water has been the blood of life. It is fitting then, that this book about the peoples of the Southwest be dedicated to an examination of water in a land that has historically been "dry," making the need to locate water supplies essential. The Southwest became an important frontier for Spanish and then Anglo explorers and colonizers who battled with native occupants for strategic locations. Each one of these groups who made the Southwest their home were ethnically quite different. They represented diverse histories, cultures, nationalities, classes, religions and world views.

With publication of Exploring the Fremont, the Utah Museum of Natural History is pleased to present the eighth volume in its Occasional Publications Series. The work is an adjunct to the exhibit of the same name, and is the Museum’s first exhibit catalog; it will also serve as a continuing reference about this important prehistoric group.

Relics Revisited: New Perspectives on an Early Twentieth-Century Collection The Pectol-Lee Artifacts from Capitol Reef - $45.00

This catalog constitutes the most comprehensive public inventory of the Pectol-Lee collection.

Edited by Marti L. Allen and Mauri L. Nelson. 2002. Popular Series No. 3. Museum of Peoples and Cultures. Brigham Young University. 404 pages, 44 figures, and 20 color plates.

This catalogue is a companion to the exhibition, "In Search of Relics: The Pectol-Lee Collection of Artifacts from Capital Reef," at the Museum of Peoples and Cultures from June 2001—May 2004.

Anasazi

In Search of the Old Ones - $14.00

David Roberts explores America's great prehistoric mystery: who were the people known as the Anasazi and what caused them to abandon their homeland in AD 1300? Ruins and artifacts from their civilization have long fascinated scholars and millions of visitors to the Four Corners region of the Southwest. Interviews and back country travels create a richly detailed portrait of an enigmatic people.

Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest - $65.00

"The primal command," writes anthropologist Christy Turner, "is, do not eat people." Historically, cultures across the world have violated this prime directive, some regularly and without apparent afterthought, some only under harshest duress. Turner has uncovered what he considers to be incontrovertible evidence of human sacrifice and cannibalism in a part of the world once thought to have been free of such horrors: the American Southwest. There, Turner maintains, thousands of burned and broken human bones, sometimes buried en masse, have been uncovered, most in sites ranging from a thousand to a few hundred years old. In one such site, the Arizona village of Awatovi, dozens of suspected witches were massacred by their fellow Hopis; in another, the great mountaintop city of Mesa Verde, Colorado, several pits containing the remains of cannibalized murder victims have been excavated. Turner suggests that the great Anasazi city of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, may have been a center of violent ritual and cannibalism, which helps explain why modern Indian residents of the region shun it as a place of bad medicine.

Ute Indians

"The Utes Must Go!" - $28.95

An indictment of Manifest Destiny and America’s Indian Policy

Tracing three centuries of Ute Indian history, "The Utes Must Go!" chronicles the policies and incidents that led to the involuntary removal of the Ute Indians from Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming. Historian Peter Decker unveils new critical information on figures such as U.S. Army Maj. Thomas Thornburgh, Interior Secretary Carl Schurz, famed newspaperman Horace Greeley, and Indian Agent Nathan Meeker whose relentless mission to turn Indian hunters into farmers led to the tragedy at Milk Creek in 1879. Decker’s research brings to light the complete drama of a proud Indian people swept away by the nineteenth-century tide of pioneer settlement, racism, and greed.

Searching for Chipeta: The Story of a Ute and Her People - $12.95

This nonfiction text explores the life and times of Chipeta, a Native American woman whose contributions have long been overlooked. Krudwig writes her historical account based upon three years of research and travels, as well interviews conducted with Chipeta's great-great grandson, O. Roland McCook, Sr., and with C. J. Brafford, an Ogallala Lakota Sioux and curator of the Ute Indian Museum. History takes on story form as Krudwig weaves factual information with her vision of the emotions felt and life lived by Chipeta and her people.

Ouray: Chief of the Utes - $15.95

A fascinating account of Colorado's most famous and controversial Indian chief. A man of keen perceptions and a talented diplomat, a negotiator and a peacekeeper, many believe Ouray was the greatest of all chiefs.

The Utes - $6.95

Presents the history, society, and culture of the Utes.

Ute Indian Arts & Culture - $44.95

This handsome book includes essays contributed by Ute cultural leaders and by other noted scholars.

Much has been written about the popular kachina dolls carved by the Hopi Indians of northern Arizona, but little has been revealed about the artistry behind them. Now Helga Teiwes describes the development of this art form from early traditional styles to the action-style kachina dolls made popular in galleries throughout the world, and on to the kachina sculptures that have evolved in the last half of the 1980s. Teiwes explains the role of the Katsina spirit in Hopi religion and that of the kachina doll—the carved representation of a Katsina—in the ritual and economic life of the Hopis.

The Practical Geologist The Introductory Guide to the Basics of Geology and to Collecting and Identifying Rocks - $16.00

Utah’s splendid scenery is the splendor of its rocks. All kinds and conditions of rocks that record a history of events spanning more than a billion years. Here is the story of those rocks and those events told in terms the layman will enjoy and the geologist appreciate.

A comprehensive guide that makes a perfect outdoor companion for nature enthusiasts. From recognizing different landforms to sleuthing for stone, this handy pocket guide supplies clear explanations of the geologic forces that continue to reshape our planet. It shows how to identify minerals, rocks, and fossils, read geologic maps and cross-sections, use mineral and landforms keys, and create a geologic collection.

This is the authoritative and practical guide to the identification, understanding and hunting of all types of fossils. More than 400 specimens in full color, coverage of all major groups of fossils, easy to use identification key.

This, the first all-photographic field guide to cover fossils found throughout North America north of Mexico, includes nearly 500 full-color photographs identifying corals, trilobites, shells, teeth, bones, as well as fossil-bearing rocks and outcrop formations.