Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle

Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle
Author: Katie Lee
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780826323354

This classic of cowboy lore including illustrations by cowboy artist William Moyers, first published in 1976, is now available only from the University of New Mexico Press. "A beautiful job, exact, comprehensive and witty. Should remain a basic history of the subject for many years to come."--Edward Abbey

All My Rivers are Gone

All My Rivers are Gone
Author: Katie Lee
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781555662295

David Brower, who has always regretted the Sierra Club's failure to save the Glen Canyon, called it The Place No One Knew. But Katie Lee was among a handful of men and women who knew the 170 miles of Glen Canyon very well. She'd made sixteen trips down the river, even named some of the side canyons. Glen Canyon and the river that ran through it had changed her life. Her descriptions of a magnificent desert oasis and its rich archaeological ruins are a paean to paradise lost.In 1963, the U.S. Government's Bureau of Reclamation (the Wreck-the-nation bureau, Katie calls it) shut off the flow of the Colorado River at Glen Canyon Dam, beginning the process of flooding this natural treasure. Two generations have been born since the dam was built, and in a few more decades there may be no one alive who will have known the place. Katie Lee won't forget Glen Canyon, and she doesn't want anyone else to forget it either. She tells us what there was to love about Glen Canyon and why we should miss it. The canyon had great personal significance for her: She had gone to Hollywood to make her career as an actress and a singer, but the river kept calling her back, showing her a better way to live. She very eloquently weaves her personal story into her breathtaking descriptions of the trips she made down the canyon.In recent years, Katie has found allies in her struggle to restore the canyon. The Glen Canyon Institute has been joined by the Sierra Club in calling for the draining of Lake Powell (Rez Foul, in Katie's words), and the idea is being debated on editorial pages across the country and in congressional hearings. All My Rivers Are Gone celebrates a great American landscape, mournsits loss, and challenges us to undo the damage and forever prevent such mindless destruction in the future.

Sandstone Seduction

Sandstone Seduction
Author: Katie Lee
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781555663384

"Sandstone Seduction", Katie Lee's Arizona memoir, limns her love affair with the Southwest, where she grew up in the 1940s.

Wrenched from the Land

Wrenched from the Land
Author: M. L. Lincoln
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 0826361528

The activists featured in this book are inspired by the late Edward Abbey, one of America's uncompromising and irascible defenders of wilderness.

The Cowgirls

The Cowgirls
Author: Joyce Gibson Roach
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1990
Genre: Cowgirls
ISBN: 0929398157

Updated and revised (first edition, 1977) history of the women of the West, telling of their contributions and describing how they broke convention by ranching, trail-driving, and rodeoing. Extensive bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Glen Canyon Betrayed

Glen Canyon Betrayed
Author: Katie Lee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2006-10-01
Genre: Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.)
ISBN: 9781892327062

Katie Lee's book, Glen Canyon Betrayed, should be read by all wilderness lovers. It beautifully invokes what it is like to have the freedom to explore one's deepest values within the intimacy of nature's rapture. Sadly, this freedom is increasingly diminished by the commercial clutter of a river that is increasingly being managed as a theme park for the wealthy. Katie's works are paeans to the wild, sacred heart of a paradise lost. For more than a decade, she regularly ran Glen Canyon before it was buried under trillions of tons of water in 1962. Her book recreates the beauty of the Glen, describes the characters that lived there, and tells how it changed her life.

Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest

Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest
Author: John Donald Robb
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 920
Release: 2014
Genre: Folk dance music
ISBN: 0826344305

First published in 1980 and now available only from the University of New Mexico Press, this classic compilation of New Mexico folk music is based on thirty-five years of field research by a giant of modern music. Composer John Donald Robb, a passionate aficionado of the traditions of his adopted state, traveled New Mexico recording and transcribing music from the time he arrived in the Southwest in 1941.