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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Arizona and the West
Author: Gateways to the Southwest
Author: Jay M. PricePublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816522873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Arizona is home to some of the region's most stunning national parks and monuments and has had a long tradition of strong federal agenciesÑalong with effective local governmentsÑdeveloping and managing parklands. Before World War II, protecting sites from development seemed counterproductive to a state government dominated by extractive industries. By the late 1950s this state that prided itself on being a tourist destination found its lack of state parks to be an embarrassment. Gateways to the Southwest is a history of the creation of state parks in Arizona, examining the ways in which different types of parks were created in the face of changing social values. Jay Price tells how Arizona's parks emerged from the recreation and tourism boom of the 1950s and 1960s, were shaped by the environmental movement of the 1970s and 1980s, and have been affected by the financial challenges that arose in the 1990s. He also explains how changing political realities led to different methods of creating parks like Catalina, Homol'ovi Ruins, and Kartchner Caverns. In addition, places that did not become state parks have as much to tell us as those that did. By the time the need for state parks was recognized in Arizona, most choice sites had already been developed, and Price reveals how acquiring land often proved difficult and expensive. State parks were of necessity developed in cooperation with the federal government, other state agencies, community leaders, and private organizations. As a result, parks born from land exchanges, partnerships, conservation easements, and other cooperative ventures are more complicated entities than the "state park" designation might suggest. Price's study shows that the key issue for parks has not been who owns a place but who manages it, and today Arizona's state parks are a network of lake-based recreation, historic sites, and environmental education areas reflecting issues just as complex as those of the region's better-known national parks. Gateways to the Southwest is a case study of resource stewardship in the Intermountain West that offers new insights into environmental history as it illustrates the challenges and opportunities facing public lands all over America.
Arizona Trails West Region
Author: Peter MasseyPublisher: Adler Publishing
ISBN: 9781930193000
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This volume consists of comprehensive statistics and descriptions for 33 trails located near the towns of Bullhead City, Lake Havasu City, Parker, Kingman, Prescott (west), and Quartzsite (north). NEW, full COLOR addition to our Trails series! These handy 6x9? books include scenic drives plus a whole lot more! Including some of America's best mountain biking, hiking, camping and fishing areas! Ghost towns galore? Step back into the past while wandering through abandoned mining areas, old buildings, and even entire towns. INCLUDES GPS coordinates throughout each book.
Bibliography of Arizona
Author: Southwest Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)Publisher:
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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
"This constitutes the third edition of the original catalogue issued by Dr. Munk in 1900 and 1908. The first contained a few hundred volumes, the second about 1000; the present includes several thousand items, and is accompanied by a subject index"--Foreword, page 11.
Finding the Wild West: The Southwest
Author: Mike CoxPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493064142
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the Southwest states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas--one of the five-volume Finding the Wild West series--highlights the best preserved historic sites as well as ghost towns, reconstructions, museums, historical markers, statues, works of public art that tell the story of the Old West. Use this book in planning your next trip and for a storytelling overview of America’s Wild West history.
Ground-water Quality in the West Salt River Valley, Arizona, 1996-98
Author: Robert John EdmondsPublisher:
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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The West
Author: Thomas G. AylesworthPublisher: Chelsea House
ISBN: 9780791013960
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Discusses geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah. Includes maps, illustrated fact spreads, and other relevant material.
A Land Apart
Author: Flannery BurkePublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816528411
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
"A new kind of history of the Southwest (mainly New Mexico and Arizona) that foregrounds the stories of Latino and Indigenous peoples who made the Southwest matter to the nation in the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.
Arizona was the West
Author: James Riley JenningsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780811103565
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Arizona
Author: Cyrus Townsend BradyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 248
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