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Text and photographs present the story of the Harvey girls who were waitresses in the Fred Harvey's chain of restaurants along the Santa Fe railroad. They were true pioneers, about one hundred thousand of them, who chose to travel West and provide high quality meals for railroad passengers.

As he searches for his uncle through the rugged Southwest canyon country, fourteen-year-old Clay becomes involved with a group of Navajo Indians who are trying to save some of the last wild mustangs.

When fifteen-year-old Francis and two younger children lose their way in the wilderness of the Southwest, they face capture at the hands of dangerous men.

When Manuela's sheep are stolen, she has to go to Alice Nizzy Nazzy's talking road-runner-footed adobe house and try to get the witch to give the flock back.

Tells the life story of American lawman Wyatt Earp, covering his childhood in Illinois, the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the "vendetta ride," and his legacy, and includes a time line, glossary, and further reading list.

Because Rattlesnake has taken over the road and will not let any of the people or animals in the village use it, Desert Woman enlists the aid of the other animals to create a strange new creature with the necessary tools to overcome Rattlesnake.

Simple maps show how different animals, including a lizard, a jackrabbit, a roadrunner, mules, and deer, travel through an area of the Southwest.

Describes Coronado's exploration of what is now the southwestern United States.

Describes Coronado's explorations in the southwestern United States in the 1540s, an expedition which revealed for the first time to Europeans the Grand Canyon, the Painted Desert, the Great Plains, herds of buffalo, stark deserts, snow-capped mountain peaks--yet never the gold the Spaniards so avidly desired.