Product Description: In prehistoric times, the Santa Cruz River in what is now southern Arizona saw many ebbs, flows, and floods.  It flowed on the surface, meandered across the floodplain, and occasionally carved deep channels or arroyos into valley fill...read more

Product Description: Born in Sonora in 1868 to a Mexican mother and a German father, Federico Ronstadt was the quintessential borderman. He came to Arizona Territory as a young man to learn a trade and eventually became an American citizen; but with many relatives on both sides of the border, Federico was equally at home in Mexico and in his adopted country...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: When William John McGee set out from Washington, D.C., for the Sonoran Desert in 1894, he was inspired by a passion for adventure as much as a thirst for knowledge. McGee lived in an era when discovery was made through travel rather than study, and reputations were forged by going where no outsiders had gone before...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Inhabiting the Sierra Madre Occidental of southwestern Chihuahua in Mexico, the Tarahumara (or Rarámuri) are known in their language as the "foot runners" due to the way in which they must navigate their rugged terrain. This book offers an accessible ethnography of their history, customs, and current life, accompanied by photographs that offer striking images of these gentle people...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This important and well-documented new work chronicles and celebrates the prodigious legacy of Spain and Mexico in what is now the United States of America. Most popular histories have tended to misrepresent or minimize more than three centuries of Spanish and Mexican contributions to American history, but author Fontana sets the record straight...read more

This volume provides information from the author's twenty-five year study of the humble desert Papago Indians