southwestern states

Provides information about Arizona, California, and Nevada, from their geography, history, and government to their economy, population demographics, and major cities.

A burnt-out veteran, a mad doctor, a sexy revolutionary, and a polygamist outdoorsman team up in a concerted effort to halt what they see as a big government/big business conspiracy to destroy the environment of the American West.

The story of Soveida Dosamantes, a waitress who has worked for thirty years in a Mexican restaurant in the rural Southwest.

"Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked "KING CITY" by a mysterious man in a tan jacket holding a deer skin suitcase. Everything about him and his paper unsettles her, especially the fact that she can't seem to get the paper to leave her hand, and that no one who meets this man can remember anything about him. Jackie is determined to uncover the mystery of King City and the man in the tan jacket before she herself unravels. NightVale PTA treasurer Diane Crayton's son, Josh, is moody and also a shape shifter. And lately Diane's started to see her son's father everywhere she goes, looking the same as the day he left years earlier, when they were both teenagers. Josh, looking different every time Diane sees him, shows a stronger and stronger interest in his estranged father, leading to a disaster Diane can see coming, even as she is helpless to prevent it."--Provided bypublisher.

Discusses Spain's early explorations in the Western Hemisphere, its expansion into regions of the United States, its conflicts with France and Great Britain, and the founding of the notable missions of California.

In this Southwestern version of the Gingerbread Man, a tortilla runs away from the woman who is about to cook him.

Brokenhearted when her best friend departs for the summer, Ivy spends her own summer caring for animals in the mid-century Southwest, sharing her season of discovery with a stubborn pony, a mischievous puppy, and a scarred racehorse.

Explores the people and events of the Southwest region of the United States, including cultural groups, politics, major cities, and more.

The author traces the life of William Bonney, alias Billy the Kid, and provides documentation that the outlaw was not killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett, but escaped and lived as William Henry Roberts until his death in 1950 at age ninety-one.

A collection of short fiction stories about the lives, loves, and losses of people living in the Mexican border town of Brownsville.