Blessingway

Leland C Wyman

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• An outstanding work crafted from the handwritten pages of translations from the Navajo of the late Father Berard Haile giving three separate versions ... Lees meer

Use-Wear Analysis of Flaked Stone Tools

Patrick C Vaughan

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• This major contribution to archaeological method details the use-wear analysis of a set of stone tools recovered during the excavation of Cassegros Ca... Lees meer

The Origin and Development of the Pueblo Katsina Cult

E Charles Adams

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• Although the age and origin of katsina ceremonialism have long fascinated scholars, the reasons for its development have remained unexplored until now... Lees meer

Life and Labor on the Border

Josiah Heyman

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• For thousands of Mexican laborers, life along the U.S. border represents an opportunity both to earn wages and to gain access to consumer goods. For a... Lees meer

The Sonoran Desert

Roger Dunbier

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• Although possessing a common physical heritage, the Sonoran Desert has taken on highly contrasting forms in its American and Mexican portions. This wo... Lees meer

Grenville Goodwin Among the Western Apache

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• Grenville Goodwin was one of the leading field anthropologists during a crucial period in American Indian research--the 1930s. His letters from the fi... Lees meer

The Vertebrates of Arizona

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• "This compact book summarizes the distribution of all of the Recent species of vertebrates of Arizona. The introductory Part 1, 'Arizona landscapes an... Lees meer

The Aztec Kings

Susan D Gillespie

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• Winner of the American Society for Ethnohistory's Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize Scholars have long viewed histories of the Aztecs either as flawed ch... Lees meer

The Clifton-Morenci Strike

James R Kluger

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• The strike that paralyzed the mining camps of Clifton and Morenci during 1915-16 and gained nationwide attention was one of the most remarkable that e... Lees meer

Excavations at Snaketown

Harold S Gladwin, Emil W Haury, E B Sayles, Nora Gladwin

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• "[Gladwin] accomplished, from the 1920's on, a series of fundamentally important studies of the prehistoric cultures of the region from Texas to Calif... Lees meer

Mission of Sorrows

John L Kessell

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• The Mission of Guevavi on the Santa Cruz River in what is now southern Arizona served as a focal point of Jesuit missionary endeavor among the Pima In... Lees meer

An Arizona Chronology

Douglas D Martin

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection | nr. 1
• An Arizona Chronology: The Territorial Years contains the first sheaves of a newspaperman's gleaning of history from the crisp, yellowing abundance of... Lees meer

Notes of Travel Through the Territory of Arizona

J H Marion

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• "Prime source material, readable reporting of the day-by-day observations, preoccupations, and ideas of an Arizonan in 1870. . . . Marion, editor of t... Lees meer

Sonora

Ignaz Pfefferkorn

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• "The bloodsucking bat, construction of bows and arrows, the punishment for adultery among the Apaches... all was grist that dropped into the industrio... Lees meer

Forging the Copper Collar

James W Byrkit

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• Bisbee, Arizona...July 12, 1917...6:30 a.m.... Just after dawn, two thousand armed vigilantes took to the streets of this remote Arizona mining town t... Lees meer

Worlds in the Sky

William Sheehan

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• Ever since early stargazers discovered that some heavenly bodies wandered among the others, people have been fascinated by the planets. Kepler calcula... Lees meer

Early Tahiti as the Explorers Saw It, 1767-1797

Edwin N Ferdon

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• For thirty years before the coming of the European missionaries, European explorers were able to observe Tahitian society as it had existed for centur... Lees meer

Food, Fiber, and the Arid Lands

Patricia G. Paylore

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• From the Foreword : The world's dramatic awakening to the impact of ecology on the quality of human life, and a new awareness of the potential for exp... Lees meer

The Ecology of Desert Communities

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• "Provides interesting and thought-provoking reading and is highly recommended to anyone interested in desert ecosystems or community ecology. The book... Lees meer

Rules and Precepts of the Jesuit Missions of Northwestern New Spain

Charles W Polzer

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• An exceptionally valuable research tool for scholars. The noted Jesuit historian has translated the rules and precepts that governed the mission expan... Lees meer

Rim of Christendom

Herbert Eugene Bolton

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• "This re-issued biography recounts [Kino's] work with loving detail and with an accuracy that has survived slight amendments. Its accompanying plates,... Lees meer

John Spring's Arizona

A M Gustafson

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• John Spring, a Swiss volunteer wounded in Civil War action, was sent to Arizona with the Regular Army of 1866 and became the most versatile and articu... Lees meer

Letters from the Southwest

Charles Lummis

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• In the fall of 1884, journalist Charles Lummis set out on foot from Ohio to California on assignment for the Los Angeles Times . The reports he mailed... Lees meer

The Changing Mile

James Rodney Hastings, Raymond M Turner

• Paperback | Engels | Century Collection
• Dramatically presents the changes man, climate, cattle, fire, and other factors have wrought upon the natural landscape within a vertical mile over a ... Lees meer