FAR OUT EXPEDITIONSRECOMMENDED READING LIST: Below is a list of some of the books that you might like to read if you are interested in the desert southwest. These titles represent books about the archaeology, history, science, and beauty of the landscape as told by the poetry, prose and photographs of those who have explored the region. Far Out is pleased to announce that we are now selling many of these books – as well as other appropriate books - in our office. (1/11)

Anasazi America

David E. Stuart University of New Mexico Press

-Ties together the archaeology of the 4 Corners area

Chaco and After in the Northern San Juan

Catherine Cameron University of Arizona Press

-Excavations at the Bluff Great House

The Chaco Meridian

Steve Lekson Alta Mira Press

-Centers of political power in the ancient southwest

The Cliff Dwellings Speak

Beth & Bill Sagstetter Benchmark Publishing of Colorado

-An interpretation of Anasazi archaeology

Comb Ridge and Its Peoples: The Ethnic History of a Rock Robert McPherson Utah State University Press

Cowboys and Cave Dwellers

Fred Blackburn & Ray Williamson

School of American Research

-The reverse archaeological studies of the Wetherill explorations of the late 1800s.

Coyote’s Canyon

Terry Tempest Williams Gibbs Smith

-Photos & prose to delight the desert enthusiast

Desert Solitaire

Edward Abbey Simon & Schuster

-Local lore, by the master

Eating Stone Imagination and Loss of the Wild

Ellen MeloyRandom House

-The late celebrated Bluff naturalist

Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum: Collections Teri Paul et al. Donning Co.

-The museum’s collection and what it means

Everet Ruess A Vagabond for Beauty

W. L. Rusho Gibbs Smith

-Story of the folk hero who disappeared

Finders Keepers

Craig Childs Little Brown

-A tale of archaeological plunder and obsession

Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved

Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer

David Roberts Broadway Books

Hole in the Rock

David Miller University of Utah Press

-The Mormon Hole in the Rock expedition

House of Rain

Craig ChildsLittle Brown

-Following the Anasazi migrations

In Search of the Old Ones

David RobertsSimon & Schuster

-A journey into Anasazi land

Indian Rock Art of the Southwest

Polly Schaafsma University of Utah Press

-Southwest rock art interpretation

Legacy on Stone

Sally Cole

-Rock art interpretation from the expert

Posey: The last Indian War

Robert McPherson Gibb Smith

Rainbow Bridge

Charles Bernheimer CAS Reprint

-Circling Navajo Mountain and exploration in Utah and Arizona

Richard Wetherill: Anasazi

Frank McNitt University of New Mexico Press

-Biography

River Flowing from the Sunrise

Alton & McPherson Utah State University Press

-Environmental history of the lower San Juan

Sandstone Spine Seeking the Anasazi on the First Traverse of the Comb Ridge

David Roberts Mountaineers Books

-Vaughn, David and Greg on their excellent adventure

The Secret Knowledge of Water

Craig Childs Time Warner Books

-Writing by an author with a desert soul

Stone Chisel and Yucca Brush

Malotki & Weaver Kiva Publishing

-Colorado plateau rockart

Traces of Fremont

Steven R. Simms University of Utah Press

-Society and rock art in Ancient Utah

The Wetherills: Friends of Mesa Verde

Fred Blackburn

-Great update on this family of early explorers

Wind in the Rock

Ann Zwinger Harper & Row

-Cedar Mesa through a naturalist’s eyes.