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Stories on stone

rock art : images from the ancient ones
2012
Introduces young people to the beauty and mystery of rock art and suggests some answers to the intriguing puzzles it poses.

The tortoise and the jackrabbit

2004
Many of the animals that live in the southwestern desert witness the race between slow but steady Tortoise and the quick, overconfident Jackrabbit.

The Santa Fe Trail

from Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico
2003
Examines the history of the Santa Fe Trail, a nearly eight hundred mile path from Missouri to Santa Fe used primarily as a trade route in the 1800s.

Billy the Kid

1996
The life story of Billy the Kid, the outlaw of the Old West, from his childhood and participation in the Lincoln County Range War to his death at the hands of Pat Garrett.

The Grand Canyon and the Southwest

2000
Presents black and white photographs by American photographer Ansel Adams of the Grand Canyon, and images of the American Southwest with an additional selection of Adams' letters about the region.

Listening woman

1990
When an old man and a teenage girl are brutally murdered, Lieutenant Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police is called in to investigate the murders.

Texas and the Far West

2003
Details the American expansion into Texas and the far west from the late eighteenth- to the mid-nineteenth century, including information on the Oregon Trail, the war with Mexico, and the California gold rush.

The fiesta dress

a quincea?era tale
2009
While Eva and her family prepare for her quincea?era, no one is paying attention to her younger sister, but when the dog gets out of the laundry room and steals Eva's sash, her little sister comes to the rescue.

Frida Mar?a

a story of the Old Southwest
1997
Because she does not sew, cook, or dance like a "proper se?orita, " Frida cannot please her mother until she saves the day at the fiesta with her special talent.

Sammy Keyes and the wild things

2007
While on her first hiking and camping trip, thirteen-year-old Sammy tries to solve a mystery involving endangered condors while avoiding scorpions, ticks, and embarrassment.

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