This is the most comprehensive book about Jerome Arizona's history during the mining era. It chronicles the town's life from its beginnings as a copper camp in the late 1800s through its mining heyday before the Great Depression. Herbert Young was secretary to the general manager of Jerome's United Verde Copper Company and his writings draw upon 43 years of experience in the development and decline of Jerome's mining operations.

Relates the personal stories and meditations of the Sedona Mago Retreat's founder which offer inspiration for connecting with the natural world.

Novelist, essayist, naturalist, philosopher, and social critic, the late Edward Abbey may have been the most popular writer to take the American Southwest as his subject. In a career that began in the early 1950s and ended only with his death in 1989, he published twenty-one books - among them Desert Solitaire, his account of his seasons as a park ranger at Utah's Arches National Monument, and the bestselling novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which introduced...

"A walking journey across Arizona with essays on wildfire, copper mining, border crossing, dirty politics, Native culture, violence, suburban monotony, shrinking water, local cuisine, literary culture and the Grand Canyon. I have sought to write the most comprehensive one-volume portrait of Arizona ever written: a deep narrative map"--