Product Description: Between them, Dolan Ellis and Sam Lowe have roamed across Arizona for more than a century, searching for words and music to describe and glorify their adopted homeland. Dolan Ellis, Arizona's Official State Balladeer since 1966, has written more than several hundred songs that extol Arizona's beauty and grandeur...read more

Product Description: The Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, and the wide-open desert may stand out as prominent Southwest features, but this region is also home to bizarre places, personalities, events, and phenomena.  These unique and quirky aspects are humorously displayed in Southwest Curiosities, a cross between a wacky news gazette, an almanac, and a humorous travel guide...read more

Product Description: Each volume in this series features approximately fifteen short biographies of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of a given state. The villainous, the misguided, and the misunderstood all get their due in these entertaining yet informing books...read more

Although Arizona was one of the last states to enter the union, this Wild West frontier claims some of the quirkiest citizens and sites in the country--everything from stock tank racing to a $200 margarita. This laugh-out-loud guide will introduce readers to the offbeat people, places, and events of Arizona.

Product Description: Each volume in this series features approximately fifteen short biographies of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of a given state. The villainous, the misguided, and the misunderstood all get their due in these entertaining yet informing books...read more

Product Description: Mysteries and Legends of Arizona explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Arizona’s history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in Arizona history...read more

Product Description: Whether you're a born-and-raised New Mexican, a recent transplant, or just passing through, New Mexico Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as it introduces you to the most fascinating characters in the Spanish State, and takes you places you never could have imagined―some of them right around the corner!...read more

Product Description: An entertaining collection of 101 quintessential places, people, events, customs, lingo, and eats that help define the personality of this proud state.