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Last water on the Devil's Highway : a cultural and natural history of Tinajas Altas / Bill Broyles, [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Broyles, Bill.
- Series:
- Southwest Center
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history--Arizona--Tinajas Altas Site.
- Natural history.
- Water-supply--Arizona--Tinajas Altas Site--History.
- Water-supply.
- El Camino del Diablo (Ariz. and Mexico)--History.
- El Camino del Diablo (Ariz. and Mexico).
- Tinajas Altas Site (Ariz.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (275 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Tucson, Arizona] : The University of Arizona Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Devil's Highway--El Camino del Diablo--crosses hundreds of miles and thousands of years of Arizona and Southwest history.This heritage trail follows a torturous route along the U.S.Mexico border through a lonely landscape of cactus, desert flats, drifting sand dunes, ancient lava flows, and searing summer heat.
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Maps; List of Tables; Preface; Introduction: Crossroads / Thomas E. Sheridan; 1. Desert Water / Bill Broyles, Gayle Harrison Hartmann, and Thomas E. Sheridan; 2. Native Peoples of the Tinajas Altas Region: Prehistoric to Present / Gayle Harrison Hartmann, Mary Charlotte Thurtle, and Gary Paul Nabhan; 3. First Europeans to Forty-Niners: 1540-1854 / Thomas E. Sheridan and Bill Broyles; 4. Surveyors to Campers: 1854 to the Present / Bill Broyles and Gayle Harrison Hartmann; 5. Natural History / Bill Broyles
- Conclusion: Reflections on an Exceptional Place - When You Go ; Acknowledgments; Appendices; Appendix 1. Some Native American Names and Uses of Plants, Mammals, and Reptiles of the Tinajas Altas Region / Gary Paul Nabhan and Jacquie Gage Kahn; Appendix 2. Mammals at Tinajas Altas / Robert S. Henry; Appendix 3. Birds at Tinajas Altas / David J. Griffin; Appendix 4. Amphibians and Reptiles at Tinajas Altas / Philip C. Rosen; Appendix 5. Vascular Plants of the Tinajas Altas Region / Richard S. Felger and Thomas R. Van Devender; References; About the Authors.
- About the Appendix Contributors ; Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8165-9887-8
- OCLC:
- 923439511
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