Books written by Dan Louie Flores
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Caprock Canyonlands
Patches of snow still gleamed whitely beneath the heavy juniper growth on the south wall, but the badlands section where Tule and I had baked the summer before was already clear of snow, wet patches of clay the only evidence still left.
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The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains
The clay soils composed of this substance " appear to be not worth cultivating , but far from it they are found to be more productive than the best Mississippi lands . " Most of the lands not subject to overflow were already inhabited ...
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Horizontal Yellow: Nature and History in the Near Southwest
[ with ] vermilion foot - hills of red clay . ” When the river entered the “ Grand Canyon ” ( Santa Elena ) “ in a narrow vertical slit in the face of the escarpment , ” he concluded that the “ solemnity and beauty of the spectacle were ...
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Southern Counterpart to Lewis & Clark: The Freeman & Custis Expedition of 1806
Stopped by a Spanish army in what is today extreme southern Oklahoma, they did not complete their mission. President Jefferson minimized their failure by focusing instead on the success of their northern counterparts Lewis and Clark.
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Visions of the Big Sky: Painting and Photographing the Northern Rocky Mountain West
Ancient ecstasies -- Visualizing Lewis and Clark and the meaning of the West -- The eye and the heart in George Catlin's West -- Karl Bodmer's gift -- Alfred Jacob Miller's new Western American -- Jesus and animus beneath the Bitterroots -- ...
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American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
The story of what happened to six major species of the Great Plains--pronhorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears--in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the prospects for recovering North America's "Serengeti ...