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Recounts the adventures of seventeen-year-old Fred Dellenbaugh, the youngest member of the second Powell expedition, which explored the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon in 1871-2.

After a surprise attack leaves many of her people dead, fifteen-year-old Walks Alone, an Apache girl wounded in the massacre, struggles to survive and rejoin the refugee band.

The author presents a retelling of the life of famed outlaw, Billy the Kid, and provides information to help separate fact from fiction regarding the events surrounding his exploits and his death.

An illustrated biography of Wyatt Earp in the form of a time line following his life from 1848 to his death in 1929, and includes essays and information on people and events related to him.

Photographs and text describe events preceeding and during the War with Mexico from 1845-1848.

Poems that describe the landscape, people, and animals of the American Southwest.

Provides an introduction to petroglyphs, the ancient images found on stones throughout the southwestern United States, with discussion of the lives of the native people who inhabited the region, and how and why they created the rock drawings.

Describes the work, equipment, and culture of the vaqueros, the Spanish cowherders who shaped the Mexican plains five hundred years ago, and traces their evolution over the centuries into "cowboys" and "buckaroos.".

Discusses some of the things archaeologists have learned about three major groups of Indians that lived in the American Southwest: the Anasazi, the Hohokam, and the Mogollon.