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Fire season: field notes from a wilderness lookout
By Philip Connors. 2011
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Nature, Environment, Frontier and pioneer life, Science and medicine biography, Essays, Biography, Travel and geography, Science and technology
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The Gila landscape, rugged and roadless, - and the 1st region in the world to officially be off-limits to industrial…
machines - is typically hit by lightning more than 30,000 times per year. Written with startling beauty from a 10,000 foot firewatch perch, the book is filled with reflections on nature and historic events of the region, as well as musings on other writers who had served as lookouts before him. AdultA hundred years of horse tracks: the story of the Gray Ranch
By George Hilliard. 1996
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Frontier and pioneer life, United States history, Social issues, Science and technology
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"A Hundred Years of Horse Tracks" is the history of the Diamond A Ranch, perhaps better known as the Gray…
Ranch, located in New Mexico's boot-heel. Hilliard has supplemented sparse and scattered old sources with interviews of old-timers to produce this history of the ranch from the 1880s when it was initially settled by Michael Gray through sale to the Nature Conservancy in the early 1990s and subsequent sale in 1994 to the Animas Foundation which runs it as a working ranch under agreements preserving wilderness areas, preventing overgrazing, and ensuring the property stay whole. AdultHeaded into the wind: a memoir
By Jack Loeffler. 2019
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Biography, Frontier and pioneer life, Travel and geography
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Jack Loeffler reveals his compassion and concern for Southwestern traditional cultures in the wake of Manifest Destiny. Loeffler shares his…
humor and imagination, his adventures, observations, reflections, and meditations along the trail in his retelling of a life well lived. In this honest memoir, he advises each and every one of us to go skinny-dipping joyfully in the flow of Nature to better understand where we're headed. AdultA New Mexico primer: for students of all ages
By R. Kermit Hill. 2011
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Frontier and pioneer life, United States history
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This book is a simple, no nonsense telling of New Mexico history and geography for those who are new to…
the "Land of Enchantment" and for those who want a quick, uncluttered story based on the theory that history should be fun. Adult