University Of Arizona Press: 461 books
Point of Pines
A History of the University of Arizona Archaeological Field School
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Recalls education and daily life at Point of Pines field school and also provides the background for the scientific papers that have resulted from the research that was undertaken there. Appendixes list contributions to Point of Pines archaeology, staff members and students, and institutions represented by attendees.
The San Pedro River
A Discovery Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona not only features some of the richest wildlife habitat in the Southwest, it also is home to more kinds of animals than anywhere else in the contiguous United States. Here you'll find 82 species of mammals, dozens of different reptiles and amphibians, and...
Bitter Water
Diné Oral Histories of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Many know that the removal and relocation of Indigenous peoples from traditional lands is a part of the United States’ colonial past, but few know that—in an expansive corner of northeastern Arizona—the saga continues. The 1974 Settlement Act officially divided a reservation established almost...
Homol'ovi
An Ancient Hopi Settlement Cluster
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Beginning sometime in the thirteenth century, people from the Hopi Mesas established a cluster of villages to the south along the Little Colorado River. They were attracted by the river’s resources and the region’s ideal conditions for growing cotton. By the late 1300s, these Homol’ovi villages...
Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the Southwest
Species of Capital
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Ranching is as much a part of the West as its wide-open spaces. The mystique of rugged individualism has sustained this activity well past the frontier era and has influenced how we view—and value—those open lands.
Nathan Sayre now takes a close look at how the ranching ideal has come into...
Chiricahua Mountains
Bridging the Borders of Wildness
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
For many, these mountains represent the Apache stronghold of Geronimo. For others, they are a birdwatcher's paradise. But the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona are more than this. They are a classic "sky island" of the desert, a rich storehouse of biologic diversity. On a journey...
Images and Conversations
Mexican Americans Recall a Southwestern Past
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Some Hispanic Americans living today can recall a time when barrio or ranch life was marked by a simplicity and neighborliness that has vanished with progress. These thirteen first-person accounts of southern Arizona residents capture a spirit evocative of the Hispanic presence in the Southwest—whether...
by George Webb
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
"A flavorsome re-creation of things past in the life of a generous, friendly people." —New York Times Book Review
"George Webb's gentle recollections of his childhood and Pima Indian lifeways will doubtless endure forever. This deeply moving autobiography is the perfect introduction for younger Pimas to their culture and history." —Arizona Highways
by Lawrence Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The road between Tucson, Arizona, and Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, runs straight and true. Slicing through miles of rolling desert and faraway blue mountains, it could be just another fast way to get from here to there. But if the traveler has a taste for adventure and time to spare, this road can be...
Nine Months Is a Year
At Baboquívari School
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
From the author of the widely acclaimed Woman in Levi’s, this colorful autobiography follows a year in the lives of the lone woman rancher, her students, and their families in 1930s rural Southern Arizona.
Starving for Justice
Hunger Strikes, Spectacular Speech, and the Struggle for Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In the 1990s three college campuses in California exploded as Chicano/a and Latino/a students went on hunger strikes. Through courageous self-sacrifice, these students risked their lives to challenge racial neoliberalism, budget cuts, and fee increases. The strikers acted and spoke spectacularly and,...
Nikkei in the Interior West
Japanese Immigration and Community Building, 1882–1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Eric Walz's Nikkei in the Interior West tells the story of more than twelve thousand Japanese immigrants who settled in the interior West--Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah. They came inland not as fugitives forced to relocate after Pearl Harbor but arrived decades before World War II as...
Dispatches from the Fort Apache Scout
White Mountain and Cibecue Apache History Through 1881
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In the 1970s, the White Mountain Apache Tribe and the Arizona Historical Society began working together on a series of innovative projects aimed at preserving, perpetuating, and sharing Apache history. Underneath it all was a group of people dedicated to this important goal. Dispatches from the Fort...
John Ringo
The Gunfighter Who Never Was
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
He was the deadliest gun in the West. Or was he? Ringo: the very name has come to represent the archetypal Western gunfighter and has spawned any number of fictitious characters laying claim to authenticity. John Ringo's place in western lore is not without basis: he rode with outlaw gangs for thirteen...