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Tales from Wide Ruins

Jean and Bill Cousins, traders
1996
Presents the memoirs of Jean and Bill Cousins, telling about their life together in the trading business during the 1930s and 1940s, focusing on their twelve years at Wide Ruins Trading Post on a corner of the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona, where they were instrumental in developing the Wide Ruins-style natural dye rugs.

And die in the West

the story of the O.K. Corral gunfight
1989
Presents a narrative of the gunfight, of the tensions leading up to it, and of the events that followed.

Decorative art of the Southwestern Indians

1961
Contains a collection of nearly three hundred black-and-white illustrations of authentic Southwestern Indian decorations and drawings from the thirteenth-century art of the ancient Pueblos to the styles and geometric designs of the Apache, Pima, Zuni, Navajo, and other tribes of the region.

Illegal

life and death in Arizona's immigration war zone
2010
Offers insight into the lives of undocumented Mexican immigrants living in Phoenix, Arizona, including true stories that demonstrate the hardships and violence this group of people faces.

Life in a Hopi village

2000
Introduces life in a Hopi village in seventeenth-century Arizona, discussing the homes, families and clans, food, clothing, beliefs, and entertainment.

One day in the desert

1996
Explains how the animal and human inhabitants of the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, including a mountain lion, a roadrunner, a coyote, a tortoise, and members of the Papago Indian tribe, adapt to and survive the desert's merciless heat.

Frontier merchants

Lionel and Barron Jacobs and the Jewish pioneers who settled the West
1998
Tells the story of Lionel and Barron Jacobs, Jewish merchants who started with a general store in Tucson in 1867 and went on to found Arizona's first bank.

Apache rodeo

1995
Four Apache children take part in the barrel race, calf-riding, and goat-tying events at the Whiteriver rodeo and watch their father perform in the bull-riding contest.

No angel

my harrowing undercover journey to the inner circle of the Hells Angels
2009
FBI agent Jay Dobyns relates his experiences working undercover to infiltrate the Hells Angel Motorcycle Club, discussing his actions and how the job nearly cost him his family and life.

Is my friend at home?

pueblo fireside tales
2001
A collection of traditional tales originally told in the Hopi pueblos of Arizona, featuring animal characters.

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