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.
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.
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.
Introduces life in a Hopi village in seventeenth-century Arizona, discussing the homes, families and clans, food, clothing, beliefs, and entertainment.
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.
Lionel and Barron Jacobs and the Jewish pioneers who settled the West
Stanley, Jerry
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.
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.
my harrowing undercover journey to the inner circle of the Hells Angels
Dobyns, Jay
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.