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Last Water on the Devil's Highway : A Cultural and Natural History of Tinajas Altas.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Southwest Center SeriesPublisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (299 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780816598878
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Last Water on the Devil's HighwayDDC classification:
  • 979.1/71
LOC classification:
  • F817
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: Crossroads - Thomas E. Sheridan -- 1. Desert Water - Bill Broyles, Gayle Harrison Hartmann, and Thomas E. Sheridan -- 2. Native Peoples of the Tinajas Altas Region: Prehistoric to Present - Gayle Harrison Hartmann, Mary Charlotte Thurtle, and Gary Paul Nabhan -- 3. First Europeans to Forty-Niners: 1540-1854 - Thomas E. Sheridan and Bill Broyles -- 4. Surveyors to Campers: 1854 to the Present - Bill Broyles and Gayle Harrison Hartmann -- 5. Natural History - Bill Broyles -- Conclusion: Reflections on an Exceptional Place - When You Go -- Acknowledgments -- Appendices -- Appendix 1. Some Native American Names and Uses of Plants, Mammals, and Reptiles of the Tinajas Altas Region - Gary Paul Nabhan and Jacquie Gage Kahn -- Appendix 2. Mammals at Tinajas Altas - Robert S. Henry -- Appendix 3. Birds at Tinajas Altas - David J. Griffin -- Appendix 4. Amphibians and Reptiles at Tinajas Altas - Philip C. Rosen -- Appendix 5. Vascular Plants of the Tinajas Altas Region - Richard S. Felger and Thomas R. Van Devender -- References -- About the Authors -- About the Appendix Contributors -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: Crossroads - Thomas E. Sheridan -- 1. Desert Water - Bill Broyles, Gayle Harrison Hartmann, and Thomas E. Sheridan -- 2. Native Peoples of the Tinajas Altas Region: Prehistoric to Present - Gayle Harrison Hartmann, Mary Charlotte Thurtle, and Gary Paul Nabhan -- 3. First Europeans to Forty-Niners: 1540-1854 - Thomas E. Sheridan and Bill Broyles -- 4. Surveyors to Campers: 1854 to the Present - Bill Broyles and Gayle Harrison Hartmann -- 5. Natural History - Bill Broyles -- Conclusion: Reflections on an Exceptional Place - When You Go -- Acknowledgments -- Appendices -- Appendix 1. Some Native American Names and Uses of Plants, Mammals, and Reptiles of the Tinajas Altas Region - Gary Paul Nabhan and Jacquie Gage Kahn -- Appendix 2. Mammals at Tinajas Altas - Robert S. Henry -- Appendix 3. Birds at Tinajas Altas - David J. Griffin -- Appendix 4. Amphibians and Reptiles at Tinajas Altas - Philip C. Rosen -- Appendix 5. Vascular Plants of the Tinajas Altas Region - Richard S. Felger and Thomas R. Van Devender -- References -- About the Authors -- About the Appendix Contributors -- Index.

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