Desert Memoirs

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Desert Solitaire
Desert Solitaire 4.18 avg rating — 53,118 ratings
2.
Paint the Wind
Paint the Wind 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
3.
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place 4.18 avg rating — 10,619 ratings
4.
Navaho Trading Days
Navaho Trading Days 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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WEST OF THE THIRTIES
WEST OF THE THIRTIES 4.24 avg rating — 50 ratings
6.
Spin a Silver Dollar
Spin a Silver Dollar 4.35 avg rating — 26 ratings
7.
Growing Up at the Desert Queen Ranch
Growing Up at the Desert Queen Ranch 2.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
7.
Indian Country
Indian Country 4.10 avg rating — 171 ratings
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The White Heart of Mojave: An Adventure with the Outdoors of the Desert
The White Heart of Mojave: An Adventure with the Outdoors of the Desert 4.23 avg rating — 66 ratings
10.
Tales from Wide Ruins: Jean and Bill Cousins, Traders
Tales from Wide Ruins: Jean and Bill Cousins, Traders 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Long Ride Home: The Continuing Story Of A Father's Quest To Heal His Son Rowan
The Long Ride Home: The Continuing Story Of A Father's Quest To Heal His Son Rowan 4.32 avg rating — 270 ratings
12.
The Owl in Monument Canyon and Other Stories from Indian Country
The Owl in Monument Canyon and Other Stories from Indian Country 4.45 avg rating — 20 ratings
12.
Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest
Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest 4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings
14.
Common Ground on Hostile Turf: Stories from an Environmental Mediator
Common Ground on Hostile Turf: Stories from an Environmental Mediator 3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 (Yale Western Americana Paperbound, Yw-3.)
Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 (Yale Western Americana Paperbound, Yw-3.) 3.59 avg rating — 223 ratings
15.
Riding Barranca: Finding Freedom and Forgiveness on the Midlife Trail
Riding Barranca: Finding Freedom and Forgiveness on the Midlife Trail 3.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
17.
No Life for a Lady
No Life for a Lady 4.05 avg rating — 384 ratings
18.
Weekends with O'Keeffe
Weekends with O'Keeffe 3.72 avg rating — 127 ratings
19.
Navaho Neighbors
Navaho Neighbors 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Hosteen Klah: Navaho Medicine Man and Sand Painter (Volume 73) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
Hosteen Klah: Navaho Medicine Man and Sand Painter (Volume 73) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) 4.52 avg rating — 21 ratings
21.
Desert Wife
Desert Wife 4.07 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Left Handed, Son of Old Man Hat: A Navaho Autobiography
Left Handed, Son of Old Man Hat: A Navaho Autobiography 3.72 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn
The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn 4.08 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Elsie: Adventures of an Arizona Schoolteacher 1913-1916
Elsie: Adventures of an Arizona Schoolteacher 1913-1916 3.62 avg rating — 660 ratings
25.
Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land 3.81 avg rating — 315 ratings
26.
Going Back to Bisbee
Going Back to Bisbee 4.17 avg rating — 368 ratings
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Tséyi' / Deep in the Rock: Reflections on Canyon de Chelly (Volume 54) (Sun Tracks)
Tséyi' / Deep in the Rock: Reflections on Canyon de Chelly (Volume 54) (Sun Tracks) 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian (The Lamar Series in Western History)
Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian (The Lamar Series in Western History) 3.77 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Remote Beyond Compare: Letters of don Diego de Vargas to His Family from New Spain and Mexico, 1675-1706
Remote Beyond Compare: Letters of don Diego de Vargas to His Family from New Spain and Mexico, 1675-1706 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
30.
The Account: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion
The Account: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion 3.68 avg rating — 3,011 ratings
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A Zuni Life: A Pueblo Indian in Two Worlds
A Zuni Life: A Pueblo Indian in Two Worlds 3.76 avg rating — 33 ratings
32.
High Wide and Lonesome
High Wide and Lonesome 4.31 avg rating — 679 ratings
33.
Letters from the Southwest
Letters from the Southwest 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Adobe Days
Adobe Days really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings
35.
The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick"
The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick"
by: Nat Love
3.82 avg rating — 309 ratings
36.
The Mountains of California
The Mountains of California
by: John Muir
4.11 avg rating — 1,209 ratings
37.
Where I Was From
Where I Was From 3.86 avg rating — 6,197 ratings
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Dine Tah: My Reservation Days 1923?1939
Dine Tah: My Reservation Days 1923?1939 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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I'll Go and Do More: Annie Dodge Wauneka, Navajo Leader and Activist
I'll Go and Do More: Annie Dodge Wauneka, Navajo Leader and Activist 4.07 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Pumpkin Seed Point: Being Within The Hopi
Pumpkin Seed Point: Being Within The Hopi 3.91 avg rating — 70 ratings
41.
Navaho Expedition (American Exploration and Travel Series) (Volume 43)
Navaho Expedition (American Exploration and Travel Series) (Volume 43) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
42.
Navajo roundup;: Selected correspondence of Kit Carson's expedition against the Navajo, 1863-1865,
Navajo roundup;: Selected correspondence of Kit Carson's expedition against the Navajo, 1863-1865, 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
43.
Marietta Wetherill: Life With the Navajos in Chaco Canyon
Marietta Wetherill: Life With the Navajos in Chaco Canyon 3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings
44.
Wolfkiller: Wisdom from a Nineteenth-Century Navajo Shepherd
Wolfkiller: Wisdom from a Nineteenth-Century Navajo Shepherd 4.24 avg rating — 63 ratings
45.
Traders to the Navajos the Story of the Wetherills
Traders to the Navajos the Story of the Wetherills 3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings
46.
The Wetherills of the Mesa Verde: Autobiography of Benjamin Alfred Wetherill
The Wetherills of the Mesa Verde: Autobiography of Benjamin Alfred Wetherill really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Sand in my shoe: Homestead days in Twentynine Palms
Sand in my shoe: Homestead days in Twentynine Palms 4.38 avg rating — 29 ratings
48.
The Open Spaces: Incidents of Nights and Days Under the Blue Sky
The Open Spaces: Incidents of Nights and Days Under the Blue Sky liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Mojave: A Portrait of the Definitive American Desert
The Mojave: A Portrait of the Definitive American Desert 4.08 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Ice Cave: A Woman’s Adventures from the Mojave to the Antarctic
The Ice Cave: A Woman’s Adventures from the Mojave to the Antarctic 3.57 avg rating — 60 ratings
51.
Adventures In The Apache Country: A Tour Through Arizona And Sonora, With Notes On The Silver Regions Of Nevada (1869)
Adventures In The Apache Country: A Tour Through Arizona And Sonora, With Notes On The Silver Regions Of Nevada (1869) 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
52.
No Place for a Puritan: The Literature of California's Deserts
No Place for a Puritan: The Literature of California's Deserts 4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
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My Life on the Mojave
My Life on the Mojave really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Flat tires & coffee fires: Being tales from the 7IL ranch
Flat tires & coffee fires: Being tales from the 7IL ranch really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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California Desert Trails
California Desert Trails 4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Burntwater
Burntwater 4.54 avg rating — 26 ratings
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A Cowman's Wife
A Cowman's Wife 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
58.
Out There Somewhere (Volume 49) (Sun Tracks)
Out There Somewhere (Volume 49) (Sun Tracks) 4.22 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Another Country: Encounters With the Red Rock Desert
Another Country: Encounters With the Red Rock Desert 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
60.
Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert
Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert 4.04 avg rating — 1,755 ratings
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Some Strange Corners of Our Country
Some Strange Corners of Our Country 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Wide Ruins: Memories from a Navajo Trading Post
Wide Ruins: Memories from a Navajo Trading Post 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
63.
Spin a Silver Dollar: The True Story of an Artist, the Navajo People, and a Way of Life
Spin a Silver Dollar: The True Story of an Artist, the Navajo People, and a Way of Life 4.35 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Indian Traders of the Southeastern Spanish Borderlands: Panton, Leslie and Company and John Forbes and Company, 1783-1847
Indian Traders of the Southeastern Spanish Borderlands: Panton, Leslie and Company and John Forbes and Company, 1783-1847 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Letters from Wupatki
Letters from Wupatki really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 35 ratings
66.
Soul of Nowhere
Soul of Nowhere 4.13 avg rating — 427 ratings
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Barren, Wild, and Worthless: Living in the Chihuahuan Desert
Barren, Wild, and Worthless: Living in the Chihuahuan Desert 4.15 avg rating — 34 ratings
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My Goose is Cooked: Continuation of a West Texas Ranch Woman's Story
My Goose is Cooked: Continuation of a West Texas Ranch Woman's Story 3.97 avg rating — 33 ratings
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When I Was Red Clay: A Journey of Identity, Healing, and Wonder
When I Was Red Clay: A Journey of Identity, Healing, and Wonder 4.21 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Skywater
Skywater 4.22 avg rating — 134 ratings