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Vendor: Mountain PressExamining in detail at least one amazing fossil site in every state, Albert Dickas clearly explains the critters preserved in the rocks, from sharks and rhinoceroses to trilobites and horn corals. At some sites, you can sift through the shale in search of fossils...
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Vendor: Mountain PressBy Albert B. Dickas Rocks racing across a lakebed in Death Valley. Perfectly preserved 36-million-year-old tsetse flies in Colorado. Dinosaur trackways cemented into ancient floodplains in Connecticut. A gaping rift in the Idaho desert. What do these enigmatic geologic phenomena have in common? Besides...
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Vendor: Mountain PressBy: Joanne S. Liu How could an ordinary fence shape a nation's history? Before the 1870s, much of the American West was an uninterrupted expanse of plains, where native tribes followed buffalo herds for hundreds of miles and cowboys ran cattle wherever water and...
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Vendor: Mountain PressThe Bozeman Trail led to the goldfields of Montana for six years in the 1860s before the army abandoned its three forts along the way, yielding to Red Cloud and his warriors. Hailed by A. B. Guthrie Jr. as "among the very best in...
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Vendor: Mountain PressThe Colorado Plateau, a stunning region of the American Southwest, remains an unmatched destination for travelers worldwide. Color Country is a complete guide to the spectacular landscapes, astonishing geology, historical sites, and rugged natural beauty of this extraordinary American treasure. Color Country includes:Useful, concise...
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Vendor: Mountain PressBy: Gregory L. Tilford Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West is a full-color photographic guide to the identification, edibility, and medicinal uses of over 250 plant species, growing from Alaska to southern California, east across the Rocky Mountains and the Northern Plains to...
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Vendor: Mountain PressAfter years of research, independent history scholar Gregory Michno has created a chronological listing of every significant fight between Indians and the United States Army, as well as better-known Indian battles with civilians. In addition, Michno interprets the data to reveal patterns and draw...
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Vendor: Mountain PressForaging the Mountain West is a hands-on manual for identifying, harvesting, and preparing real food. It is written for the backpacker who would rather bring more knowledge and fewer provisions into the wilderness. It is intended for the happy homemaker who wants to eat...
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Vendor: Mountain PressThe transition from the relatively flat Great Plains to the craggy peaks of Colorado’s Front Range is one of North America’s most abrupt topographical contrasts. The epic, 1,800-million-year geologic story behind this amazing landscape is even more awe inspiring. In Geology Underfoot along Colorado’s Front...
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Vendor: Mountain PressBy: Allen F. Glazner, Arthur Gibbs Sylvester, and Robert P. SharpIllustrated by Chelsea M. Feeney Eastern California—a geologically dramatic region with the ever-present risk of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, flash floods, and sand storms—boasts spectacular and easily viewed rocks and landforms. Authors Allen Glazner and...
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Vendor: Mountain PressBy: Lon Abbott & Terri Cook From the plunging depths of the Grand Canyon to jagged volcanic peaks, from Sedona's vibrant red rocks to the tapered slot of Antelope Canyon, Geology Underfoot in Northern Arizona introduces you to a land of contrasts. At twenty special sites...
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Vendor: Mountain PressFirst published in 1993, this groundbreaking book is now fully revised and updated with the latest scientific information. Join a team of geologists as they use clear prose, concise illustrations, and dramatic full-color photographs to tell the stories of 21 amazing geologic sites, 3...
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Vendor: Mountain PressSouthern Idaho is a geologic jackpot. Etched in its rugged mountains, incredibly young lava fields, and steep-walled canyons lie compelling evidence of amazing geologic events, including breccia from one of the largest meteorite impacts in the world. Join geology professor and author Shawn Willsey...
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Vendor: Mountain PressBy: Richard L. Orndorff, Robert W. Wieder, & David G. Futey Southern Utah's magnificent, enigmatic landforms are famous worldwide. But what carved the goblins in Goblin Valley, the dome at Capitol Reef, Zion's towering sandstone walls, and Bryce's hoodoo fairyland - not to mention...
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Vendor: Mountain PressBy: Marc S. Hendrix Although it's also known for wolves, bison, and stunning scenery, Yellowstone National Park was established as the world's first national park in 1872 largely because of its geologic wonders. In Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country, author and geologist Marc S....
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Vendor: Mountain PressBy: David Alt As geologist J. Harlen Bretz walked the dry scabland channels of eastern Washington in the 1920s, in dawned on him that he was viewing a landscape sculpted by water. Lots of water. A flood of catastrophic proportions. Glacial Lake Missoula and...
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Vendor: Mountain PressBy: Richard L. Orndorff and David G. Futey Every landform has a distinct geologic history. A cliff marks the line of a fault, a moraine delineates the edge of a former glacier, and a fin parallels a set of fractures. In Landforms of Southern...
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Vendor: Mountain PressFierce, bold, and beautiful, Raptors epitomize the American West. From spectacular Bald Eagles to tiny Elf Owls, raptors awe us. In Raptors of the West: Captured in Photographs, renowned raptor advocate and environmental educator Kate Davis and award-winning photographers Rob Palmer and Nick Dunlop...
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Vendor: Mountain PressBy: Halka Chronic The rise of mountains and the spread of deserts has marked the geologic history of Arizona. Landscapes that we see here today are here because of landscapes of the past, and because of tremendous forces deep within the earth, forces that...
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Vendor: Mountain PressBy: Halka Chronic & Felicie Williams The third edition of this popular guide is now even better—it’s full color. Colorado’s multihued rocks—from white and red sandstones to green shales and pink granites—are vividly splashed across the pages in stunning color photographs. Detailed color maps...
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