University Of Arizona Press imprint: 459 books
Forests under Fire
A Century of Ecosystem Mismanagement in the Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The devastating fire that swept through Los Alamos, New Mexico, in the spring of 2000 may have been caused by one controlled burn gone wild, but it was far from an isolated event. All through the twentieth century, our national forests have been under assault from all sides: first ranchers and loggers...
Language, History, and Identity
Ethnolinguistic Studies of the Arizona Tewa
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The Arizona Tewa are a Pueblo Indian group that migrated around 1700 to First Mesa on the Hopi Reservation and who, while speaking Hopi, have also retained their native language. Paul V. Kroskrity examines this curiosity of language and culture, explaining the various ways in which the Tewa use their...
In the Aftermath of Migration
Renegotiating Ancient Identity in Southeastern Arizona
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The Safford and Aravaipa valleys of Arizona have always lingered in the wings of Southwestern archaeology, away from the spotlight held by the more thoroughly studied Tucson and Phoenix Basins, the Mogollon Rim area, and the Colorado Plateau. Yet these two valleys hold intriguing clues to understanding...
Last Rampage
The Escape of Gary Tison
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In 1978 convicted murderer Gary Tison escaped from an Arizona prison with the help of his three sons. Over the following two weeks, Tison and his gang roamed the Southwest, murdering six people before confronting police in a bloody shootout near the Mexican border. Next to the Gunfight at the OK Corral, this is the most sensational crime story in Arizona history.
In the Days of Victorio
Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
"Chief Victorio of the Warm Springs Apache has recounted the turbulent life of his people between 1876 and 1886. This eyewitness account . . . recalls not only the hunger, pursuit, and strife of those years, but also the thoughts, feelings, and culture of the hunted tribe. Recommended as general...
Hashknife Cowboy
Recollections of Mack Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
"Age and size ain't got nothin' to do with it," Mack's daddy once said. "You gotta want to be a cowboy." Mack Hughes wanted to be a cowboy, all right, and he was just twelve years old when he went to work for the famous Hashknife spread in northern Arizona. Growing up on the range,...
by Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Arizona's Arivaca Valley lies only a short distance from the Mexican border and is a rugged land in which to put down stakes. When Arizona Territory was America's last frontier, this area was homesteaded by Anglo and Mexican settlers alike, who often displaced the Indian population that had lived...
by Thomas Cobb
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Winner, Spur Award for Best Western Long Novel (Western Writers of America) and Southwest Book Award (Border Regional Library Association)
On February 10, 1918, John Power woke to the sound of bells and horses’ hooves. He was sharing a cabin near the family mine with his brother Tom and their...
Prehistoric Culture Change on the Colorado Plateau
Ten Thousand Years on Black Mesa
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
One of the largest archaeological projects ever undertaken in North America, Peabody Coal Company's Black Mesa Archaeological Project conducted investigations in northeastern Arizona from 1967 to 1983. This mammoth undertaking recognized and recovered the remains of ephemeral camps, early agricultural...
De Grazia
The Man and the Myths
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Artist Ted De Grazia (1909–1982) lived life with passion and verve, embracing risk and romance, becoming a legend in Arizona, and gaining international acclaim. De Grazia: The Man and the Myths is a biography that reveals the eccentric, colorful man behind the myths.
Born in Arizona Territory...
Rim of Christendom
A Biography of Eusebio Francisco Kino, Pacific Coast Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
"This re-issued biography recounts [Kino's] work with loving detail and with an accuracy that has survived slight amendments. Its accompanying plates, maps, and bibliography enhance a text that should find a place in every serious library."—Religious Studies Review
"This is...
History Is in the Land
Multivocal Tribal Traditions in Arizona's San Pedro Valley
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Arizona’s San Pedro Valley is a natural corridor through which generations of native peoples have traveled for more than 12,000 years, and today many tribes consider it to be part of their ancestral homeland. This book explores the multiple cultural meanings, historical interpretations, and cosmological...
Debating American Identity
Southwestern Statehood and Mexican Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
In the early 1900s, Teddy Roosevelt, New Mexico governors Miguel Antonio Otero and Octaviano Larrazolo, and Arizona legislator Carl Hayden—along with the voices of less well-known American women and men—promoted very different views on what being an American meant. Their writings and speeches...
Petrified Forest National Park
A Wilderness Bound in Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon—a few American national parks enjoy amusement-park status, eclipsing many other beautiful and significant parks due to their heavy political support and spectacular sights. Visitors to Petrified Forest National Park in northeastern Arizona can escape from...