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
Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved
Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness
Explorer
David Roberts
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
Broadway Books
Hole in the Rock
David Miller University of Utah Press
-The Mormon Hole in the Rock expedition
House of Rain
Craig Childs Little Brown
-Following the Anasazi migrations
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 Meloy
Random 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
In Search of the Old Ones
David Roberts Simon & 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
Finders Keepers
Craig Childs
Little Brown
-A tale of archaeological plunder and obsession
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.