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Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
From the survival instructor and author of When All Hell Breaks Loose, a guide to surviving fear, panic, and the biggest outdoor killers.
Cody Lundin, director of the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, shares his own brand of wilderness wisdom in this highly anticipated new book on commonsense, modern survival skills for the backcountry, the backyard, or the highway. It is the ultimate book on how to stay
Publisher
Melissa Ruffner
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
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Description
Presents true stories from Prescott's early history including the discovery of gold by the Walker party, the baby who was gambled for on Whiskey Row; how Melissa's great-uncle won the family business in a faro game; Morris Goldwater and his contributions, Fiorello La Guardia's boyhood in Prescott; William "Buckey" O'Neill and the Rough Riders, and much more.
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Red Rock Mountain Press
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English
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"Touching letters written by a loving couple; musty letters that detail past lives, my parent's letters. A housewife and her sailor husband with shared immigrant experiences penned more than 500 letters during World War II, and the letters inform this book. Abridged versions of the letters weave a loving romantic story with actual events occurring on the home front and the battlefront. The letters are further brought to life through the 25 original...
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Jerome Historical Society
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English
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This is the most comprehensive book about Jerome Arizona's history during the mining era. It chronicles the town's life from its beginnings as a copper camp in the late 1800s through its mining heyday before the Great Depression. Herbert Young was secretary to the general manager of Jerome's United Verde Copper Company and his writings draw upon 43 years of experience in the development and decline of Jerome's mining operations.
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English
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Posthumous publication of a manuscript completed by anthropologist Sigrid Khera, who began working in March 1974 with Mike Harrison and John Williams, Yavapai elders from the Fort McDowell reservation, to record the tribe's history.
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English
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Novelist, essayist, naturalist, philosopher, and social critic, the late Edward Abbey may have been the most popular writer to take the American Southwest as his subject. In a career that began in the early 1950s and ended only with his death in 1989, he published twenty-one books - among them Desert Solitaire, his account of his seasons as a park ranger at Utah's Arches National Monument, and the bestselling novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which introduced...
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Publisher
Portals of Transcendence Publishing
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
SPIRITUAL ARCHAEOLOGY is for the millions of people travel each year to holy places, ancient temples and pyramids, archaeological sites, natural sites and unique spiritual locations around the world. SPIRITUAL ARCHAEOLOGY delivers what explorers of sacred places are seeking? something that tourism cannot provide-access to the hidden spiritual wealth, life-changing personal messages and unique stories these mystical places have to reveal. No plans...