Las Animas - Bent County Library District

Contains twenty-seven articles that provide opposing viewpoints on questions regarding the domestic issues affecting Canada, the country's major foreign policy concerns, challenges to freedom of expression, and issues affecting relations between Canada and the United States.

"In this collection of essays, Page Stegner threads together natural history, conservation polemic, ecology, and wilderness adventures on a number of the West's major white-water rivers. With twenty-five years of rafting behind him, Stegner moves effortlessly from his own experiences on the Colorado, Yampa, Green, San Juan, Dolores, and Missouri rivers to first explorations by historical figures like Lewis and Clark and John Wesley Powell, to modern...

"Dust Bowl, USA is a critical examination of the myths and memories that grew out of the hard times in the Great Plains. Across the nation, newspapers, magazines, books, films, and songs produced imagery of blight for local and mass audiences. As modern technology, irrigation projects, and government programs were extended on a wider scale during the "dirty thirties," the saga of the frontier continued to unfold through accounts of dust, drought,...

"How did Southwestern peoples subsist in the arid reaches of the Great Basin? When and why did violence erupt in the Mesa Verde region? Who were the Fremont people? How do some Hopis view Chaco Canyon? These are a few of the topics addressed in Living the Ancient Southwest. The essayists in this new highly-illustrated anthology also write about the beauty and originality of Mimbres pottery, the rock art in Canyon de Chelly, the history of the Wupatki...

Severe, life altering drought conditions face farmers, ranchers and residents living in southeastern Colorado. This 45-minute documentary focuses on devastating conditions, described by many as being worse than the dust bowl era of the 1930's. Long-time residents who depend on water now question their futures Hear about the under-publicized issue in an area one rancher describes as "the other Colorado." And learn about the ramifications of what drought...

Details the physical environment, biological communities, human history, and points of interest in this rich and diverse mountain system. In this guidebook, twenty-seven contributors--all experts in their fields--artfully bring the geology, hydrology, animal and plant life, human histories, and travel routes of these eastern slopes to life. Designed to inform researchers, educators, and students about the region's complex systems, the book also serves...

"The Power of Scenery tells the story of how America's national parks came to be, with Frederick Law Olmsted's insights and energy serving to link three jewels: Yosemite National Park, Yellowstone National Park, and Niagara Falls State Park"--