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Archaeology/Anthropology 7-9
Guidebooks and Outdoors 2
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Mormon Studies 5
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Philosophy 10
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The University of Utah Press is an agency of the J. Willard Marriott Library of the University of Utah. In accordance with the mission of the University, the Press publishes and disseminates scholarly books in selected fields and other printed and recorded materials of significance to Utah, the region, the country, and the world.
May 2026, 440 pp, 6 x 9 10 b&w illus., 53 color
eBook 978-1-64769-278-0
Paper 978-1-64769-277-3 $29.95
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Wild Forest Home: Stories of Conservation in the Pacific Northwest
Betsy L. Howell
eBook 978-1-64769-195-0
Paper 978-1-64769-194-3 $24.95
Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West
Edited by Gregory E. Smoak
eBook 978-1-64769-035-9
Hardcover 978-1-64769-036-6 $70.00s
Paper 978-1-64769-034-2 $35.00
Lonesome Landscapes
Stories from National Conservation Lands
Andrew Gulliford
The hidden stories of public lands in the U.S.
While the National Park Service is widely known, far fewer Americans are familiar with the Bureau of Land Management’s vast National Conservation Lands—thirtyseven million acres spanning eleven western states and Alaska. Lonesome Landscapes is the first comprehensive history of this system from public domain lands to the designation of national monuments and conservation areas in the twenty-first century.
Drawing from archives, interviews, and field reporting, Gulliford reveals the unsung heroes who safeguarded these lands, from pioneering rangers to grassroots advocates in Native American and Hispanic communities. With vivid stories of explorers, cowboys, hermits, and even an alligator named Clem, this book blends scholarship with storytelling. Lonesome Landscapes is both a definitive history and a call to keep America’s wild places in public hands—an essential read for anyone passionate about the West.
Andrew Gulliford is professor of history at Fort Lewis College. His books include Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale; Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions; The Woolly West: Colorado’s Hidden History of Sheepscape;, and Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance.
“A valuable contribution to the literature of American public land conservation history and policy. Gulliford succeeds admirably in bringing this substantial but greatly overlooked portion of the American landscape into vivid focus.”—Curt Meine, Aldo Leopold Foundation and Center for Humans & Nature
“Gulliford does an outstanding job shining a light on the overlooked National Conservation Lands system by tying them into the broader story of the American West, public lands management, and those who have helped shaped all three.”
—Michael Childers, Colorado State University
July 2026, 96 pp, 6 x 9 38 b&w illus., 6 maps eBook 978-1-64769-284-1 Paper 978-1-64769-283-4 $17.95
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The Hayduke Trail: A Guide to the Backcountry Hiking Trail on the Colorado Plateau
Joe Mitchell and Mike Coronella Paper 978-0-87480-813-1 $19.95
A Hiking Guide to Cedar Mesa: Southeast Utah
Peter Francis Tassoni Paper 978-0-87480-680-9 $19.95
A Guide to Southern Utah’s Holein-the-Rock Trail
Updated Edition
Stewart Aitchison
In 1879, more than 230 settlers in southwestern Utah heeded the call from leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to pull up stakes and move to the distant San Juan country of southeastern Utah. Their year-long journey became one of the most extraordinary wagon trips ever undertaken in North America, and their trail became one of peril, difficulty, and spectacular vistas. Beginning in Cedar City, Utah, this trail crosses today’s Dixie National Forest, skirts Bryce Canyon National Park, bisects Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, crosses Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, and cuts through Bears Ears National Monument on its way to Bluff, Utah.
Though the trail that these pioneers broke across the land was used for several years afterward, no highway was built over most of the route because it was deemed too rugged for modern vehicles. This updated editon features pioneer family histories, natural history, and current road logs, maps, and hiking trails along the historic route, making A Guide to Southern Utah’s Hole-in-the-Rock Trail a significant reference for a variety of readers.
Stewart Aitchison is the author of Bears Ears National Monument: A National Treasure; A Traveler’s Guide to Monument Valley; Grand Canyon: Window of Time; The Official Guide to Grand Canyon’s North Rim; and A Naturalist’s Guide to Hiking the Grand Canyon.
“[This book] serves as a useful guide to the American West’s most arduous emigrant road carved through a strikingly scenic, convoluted landscape. It also serves as a handy reference for anyone wishing to know the story of the trail.”
—Steven K. Madsen, coauthor of In Search of the Spanish Trail: Santa Fe to Los Angeles, 1829–1848
June 2026, 264 pp, 7 x 9 69 b&w illus.
eBook 978-1-64769-282-7
Paper 978-1-64769-281-0 $34.95
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Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography
Edited by Shannon Egan and Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad Hardcover 978-1-64769-061-8 $69.95
Across the Continent: The Union Pacific Photographs of Andrew J. Russell
Daniel Davis
Paper 978-1-60781-637-9 $24.95
Reading Frames
Explorations in What Makes a Photograph Work
W. Scott Olsen
A powerful meditation on the art of seeing
A collaboration between English professor and photographer W. Scott Olsen and Tomasz Trzebiatowski, founder of Frames magazine, Reading Frames gathers sixty-nine photographs first featured in Frames’s digital companion. Olsen’s essays interrogate the compositional and aesthetic elements of the photographs, but rather than offering technical instruction, Olsen writes with a literary sensibility, tracing how light, tone, color, and line evoke mood, meaning, and story. The essays ask us to linger with each photograph, guiding readers toward attentiveness, presence, and conversation with the image itself. Suited both to introductory photography classes and general readers, this book is an example of how truly seeing an image is not the same as simply looking at it.
W. Scott Olsen is professor of English at Concordia College. A contributing editor to Frames magazine, he hosts its podcast and writes the "Reading Frames" series.
“Unlike many other books on photography, which often focus on technical guidance, historical analysis, or theoretical frameworks, Reading Frames prioritizes accessible, personal reflections on individual photographs. Olsen’s reactions add an intimate and engaging quality to the text, fostering a connection with the reader.”—Bob Killen, fine art photographer, educator, and author
“Olsen thoroughly describes how his eyes, mind, and emotions combine to ‘read’ photographs. A joyous read.”—Wan Chantavilasvong, photography artist and director of Nature and City Scape Analytics (NACSA)
June 2026, 336 pp, 6 x 9
eBook 978-1-64769-275-9
Hardcover 978-1-64769-273-5 $75.00
Paper 978-1-64769-274-2 $35.00
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A Watershed Moment: The American West in the Age of Limits
Edited by Robert Frodeman, Evelyn Brister, and Luther Propst Paper 978-1-64769-203-2 $27.95
Roads in the Wilderness: Conflict in Canyon Country
Jedediah S. Rogers Paper 978-1-60781-313-2 $24.95
The Mind of Janus
Intersections of Law and Science on the National Forests
Jamison E. Colburn
The Wallace Stegner Series in Environmental Studies
A novel assessment
of
the interplay between law and ecology in forest management
Trees are the embodiment of existence: abundant, regenerative, irrepressible. Yet as more of the planet undergoes profound and accelerating climate change, deforestation, loss of biotic diversity, and a pitiless spread of pests and pathogens, which trees—if any—will thrive is an increasingly urgent question. Managing healthy forests remains factually uncertain, an uneasy dance between law and science.
How can law facilitate or even accelerate the application of forest ecology on landscapes like our national forests? This book is a thorough exploration of that question from more than a century of intersections of law and science on the national forests. With a focus on law—as distinct from mere policy—as an agent in human relations and as a catalyst of scientific research, it makes the case that we can and must do better to solve intractable land management problems.
Jamison E. Colburn is the A. Robert Noll Distinguished Professor of Law at Penn State. He served as assistant regional counsel for US EPA and as trustee of the Connecticut River Watershed Council. He is the author of The Scales of Weighing Regulatory Costs: Technology, Geography, and Time
“A great resource for anyone interested in Forest Service law, policy, and history.”—Sam Kalen, University of Wyoming College of Law
July 2026, 520 pp, 6 x 9 10 b&w illus., 1 table
eBook 978-1-64769-286-5
Hardcover 978-1-64769-285-8 $65.00s
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The Selected Letters of Juanita Brooks
Edited by Craig S. Smith
Hardcover 978-1-60781-647-8 $50.00s
The Selected Letters of Bernard DeVoto and Katharine Sterne
Edited by Mark DeVoto
Hardcover 978-1-60781-188-6 $19.95
We All Must Be Crasy
The Correspondence of Sarah Peterson Lund to Her Missionary Husband, 1872–1894
Edited by Jennifer L. Lund and Elizabeth Oberdick Anderson
A rare firsthand account of LDS mission history through the voice of a woman providing crucial support from home
While Latter-day Saint missionary work has been extensively studied, the experiences of the wives left behind remain relatively absent from the scholarship. We All Must Be Crasy helps fill this gap, offering a glimpse into the lived experiences of Mormon women and families during the late nineteenth century.
Through more than one hundred candid letters to her missionary husband, Sarah (Sanie) Peterson Lund reveals the private costs of missionization: strained marriages, economic hardship, shifting gender roles, and the constant need for community support. Sanie’s correspondence conveys her frustrations, anxieties, and fears alongside her pride in her children, devotion to her family, and longing for her absent husband. Her letters also show daily life in Ephraim, Utah, and reflections on plural marriage. This collection illuminates experiences only previously sketched in broad strokes, enriching our understanding of women, faith, and community in the American West.
Jennifer L. Lund is an independent historian and museum consultant. She is the former director of the Historic Sites Division of the Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Elizabeth Oberdick Anderson is an independent historian and editor. She is the editor of Cowboy Apostle: The Diaries of Anthony W. Ivins, 1875–1932, recipient of the Mormon History Association’s Best First Book Award.
“We All Must Be Crasy is valuable as presentation of primary documents, made more so by the editors’ remarkable analytical and contextual essays. Their expertise and fluency with nineteenthcentury sources deliver a rich social history—one that makes a significant contribution to both Latter-day Saint and Utah scholarship.”—Jonathan A. Stapley, author of Holiness to the Lord: Latter-day Saint Temple Worship
“In documenting and contextualizing this stunning and extensive collection of letters, Lund and Anderson have built on a recent effort to expand missionary narratives to include those left behind. Through Sanie Peterson’s own words, we gain deep insight into this sassy and forthright nineteenth-century woman’s experience. This is an impressive micro-history of one unique woman and her family that can begin to illuminate broader currents within Mormonism.”—Janiece Johnson, author of Convicting the Mormons and The Witness of Women
June 2026, 64 pp, 5.5 x 8
eBook 978-1-64769-299-5
Paper 978-1-64769-298-8 $16.95
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Estate Sale
Dan Murphy
Paper 978-1-64769-232-2 $16.95
Two Signatures
Sara Ellen Fowler
Paper 978-1-64769-186-8 $16.95
Afterlight
Caleb Nolen
Winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry
“When I wake I’m in ninth grade again,” begins “Reunion,” the first poem in Caleb Nolen’s debut collection, Afterlight These haunting, tender poems revisit the fraught adolescence of a group of boys growing up in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Told through the voice of one of the boys who left and is later looking back, Afterlight navigates the silences left by absent fathers, early deaths, and a God who doesn’t speak. Interwoven throughout are letters to saints and biblical figures: pleas for intercession and understanding that echo the speaker’s search for grace amid violence and loss. By the book’s end, the lost boys and the saints share the same hallowed space, their stories entwined. Written in plain, unsparing language, these poems reveal the tenderness within troubled masculinity and the ache of trying to love what has already vanished.
Caleb Nolen’s poems have appeared in 32 Poems, Bat City Review, Fence, The Georgia Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the University of Virginia and has received support from Blue Mountain Center and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
“The experience of reading Afterlight was a rare one for me. I couldn’t stop turning the pages. It is a propulsive, almost primal read; grief, longing, sorrow, and sympathy swelled inside me, bursts of feeling I did not expect and could not control.”—Jennifer Chang, author of An Authentic Life
“These spare, unadorned poems open in the fissures of memory. Childhood and adolescence in particular are explored via emotional snapshots that are both tough and immensely tender. One of the most remarkable things about this poet is an absolute clarity that transcends the literal, which gives him big range and authority. The book is wholly original in that the poems travel all the way back to the origins of what they confront, including brilliant forays into matters of religion and the subtle underlying violence of a rough childhood. More than a few of these poems moved me deeply. This is the strongest first book I’ve read in a very long time.”—Chase Twichell, author of Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been
"Caleb Nolen’s Afterlight chronicles a harrowing adolescence, reviewed retrospectively in the light of a faith that illuminates but will neither explain nor assuage. Rarely do I encounter poems written with such styptic care. Suspended between exorcism and elegy, each of these poems is a razor held in a living hand, waiting for the what-comes-next but already caught in the what-comesafter."—G.C. Waldrep, author of The Opening Ritual
May 2026, 368 pp, 8.5 x 11 73 b&w illus., 83 color, and 51 tables
eBook 978-1-64769-270-4
Hardcover 978-1-64769-269-8 $100.00s
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Far Western Basketmaker
Beginnings: The Jackson Flat Reservoir Project
Edited by Heidi Roberts, Richard V. N. Ahlstrom, and Jerry D. Spangler
Hardcover 978-1-64769-064-9 $80.00s
Holes in Our Moccasins, Holes in Our Stories: Apachean Origins and the Promontory, Franktown, and Dismal River Archaeological Records
Edited by John W. Ives and Joel C. Janetski
Hardcover 978-1-64769-066-3 $75.00s
The Falls Creek Rock Shelters
Reanalysis, Repatriation, and Reconciliation
Edited by Dawn M. Mulhern and Mona C. Charles
A fresh look at an iconic Southwest archaeological site
Discovered in 1937 amid a surge of pothunting in the American Southwest, the Falls Creek Rock Shelters in Durango, Colorado, quickly became one of the most significant archaeological sites in the region. With remarkable preservation of perishable materials, the sites attracted both amateur and professional archaeologists, culminating in Earl Morris and Robert Burgh’s 1954 landmark study on the Eastern Basketmakers. This volume brings together experts in chronometry, rock art, bioarchaeology, and material culture to reexamine the site with fresh perspectives, advanced methodologies, and crucial tribal consultation. By integrating twentyfirst-century research with historical records, it sheds new light on the Eastern Basketmaker II tradition—both as part of a broader cultural landscape and as a distinct regional identity. A must-read for archaeologists, institutions reconciling legacy collections, and those interested in collaborative research, this book offers a groundbreaking, holistic view of one of the Southwest’s most fascinating prehistoric communities.
Dawn M. Mulhern is professor of anthropology and associate provost at Fort Lewis College where she has also served as NAGPRA Coordinator and continues to engage in repatriation work. She previously worked in the Repatriation Osteology Laboratory at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. With Mona Charles, she has a chapter on Basketmaker mortuary patterns in Ancient Southwestern Mortuary Practices. She coedited Bioarchaeology of the Southwest with Ann L. W. Stodder.
Mona C. Charles has spent most of her career in southwest Colorado where she taught at the Fort Lewis College archaeological field school and worked with the collections at the Center of Southwest Studies. While at the Animas Museum, she was project director on two IMLS grants and a national NAGPRA grant. She is perhaps best known for her research on the Eastern Basketmakers. Her work has been published in KIVA, Southwestern Lore and the edited volume The Mesa Verde World.
List of Contributors:
Karen R. Adams, Michael Berry, Mona C. Charles, Sally J. Cole, Julie Coleman, Phil R. Geib, Edward A. Jolie, Sean Larmore, Dawn M. Mulhern, Cerisa Reynolds, Judy van Roggen, and Laurie D. Webster
June 2026, 290 pp, 7 x 10
100 b&w illustrations, 25 tables
eBook 978-1-64769-268-1
Hardcover 978-1-64769-267-4 $75.00
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Ruins, Caves, Gods, and Incense
Burners: Northern Lacandon Maya Myths and Rituals
Didier Boremanse
Hardcover 978-1-60781-732-1 $65.00s
A Historical Grammar of the Maya Language of Yucatan: 1557-2000
Victoria R. Bricker
Hardcover 978-1-60781-624-9
$100.00s
Classic Maya Social Inequality, Networks, and Collapse at Dos Pilas, Petén, Guatemala
Joel W. Palka
Household archaeology and the unraveling of Classic Maya power
The Classic Maya collapse (ca. CE 800) in Mesoamerica has been the focus of much scholarly debate over the last century. In Classic Maya Social Inequality, Networks, and Collapse at Dos Pilas, Petén, Guatemala, Joel W. Palka further explores possible causes of the collapse and breaks new ground by examining its differing effects on Maya elites and commoners.
Drawing on four years of extensive household excavations, Palka reveals how the unraveling of Maya society unfolded not through drought or economic decline alone, but through the disintegration of elite social networks and shifting strategies of survival among high-status commoners. Using data from monumental architecture, hieroglyphic inscriptions, and domestic archaeology, this study illuminates the lived experience of collapse from multiple social strata. By integrating political, environmental, and household perspectives, Palka provides one of the most comprehensive archaeological analyses of social change at an ancient Maya capital. This richly illustrated volume redefines our understanding of collapse, resilience, and transformation in ancient Mesoamerica, offering vital insights for archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians alike.
Joel W. Palka is associate professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. He is the author of Unconquered Lacandon Maya: Ethnohistory and Archaeology of Indigenous Culture Change and Maya Pilgrimage to Ritual Landscapes: Insights from Archaeology, History, and Ethnography
“Palka effectively demonstrates the utility of household archaeology for elucidating the complexity of Late Classic Maya socioeconomics, social networks, and political collapse at Dos Pilas. His abundant data presentation bolsters interpretations and allows readers to draw their own conclusions regarding the demise of this polity.”—Nancy Gonlin, Bellevue College
May 2026, 304 pp, 7 x 10 72 b&w illustrations, 20 color, 28 tables eBook 978-1-64769-261-2 Hardcover 978-1-64769-260-5 $80.00s
List of Contributors
Matthew R. Bennett
James E. Bowman
Briggs Buchanan
David Bustos
John Carpenter
Peter C. Condon
Matthew Cuba
Brendan Fenerty
Samuel Fisher
Marcus J. Hamilton
C. Vance Haynes Jr.
Nicholas M. Hlatky
Vance T. Holliday
Bruce B. Huckell
J. David Kilby
Christopher Merriman
Daniel Odess
Guadalupe Sanchez
Ismael Sánchez-Morales
Francis E. Smiley
Jacob D. Tumelaire
Tommy M. Urban
Meghann M. Vance
Jason D. Windingstad
The Paleoindian Southwest
Edited by J. David Kilby and Bruce B. Huckell
A panoramic view of research on the first peoples of the Southwest
The North American Southwest looms large in American archaeology, well known for the agricultural societies that dominated its austere landscape in later times. However, the traces of its earliest occupants, Native American ancestors who shared the ancient landscape with mammoth and giant bison toward the end of the last Ice Age, remain more obscure.
The Paleoindian Southwest provides the first comprehensive overview focused on the earliest human occupants of the Southwest, exploring past investigations, the current state of research, and directions for future discovery. Experts in the field examine individual archaeological sites—some classic and some newly discovered—as well as broader patterns of human behavior across varied regions of both the United States and Mexico. Chapter authors present new and unexpected discoveries, ranging from a gomphothere kill to fossil footprints, pushing the boundaries of the Paleoindian period and investigating nontraditional archaeological data. This collection is a critical resource and landmark volume for those interested in Southwest prehistory, Paleoindian archaeology, and Ice Age human ecology.
J. David Kilby is professor of anthropology at Texas State University, where he directs the Ancient Southwest Texas Project.
Bruce B. Huckell (1950–2024) was associate professor of anthropology and a previous director of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico.
“The Paleoindian Southwest is a tour de force of archaeology in this region and time period. It provides an essential overview of prior research into Paleoindian archaeology in the American Southwest and also reports new data and investigations. Each chapter is carefully crafted and together they build a detailed picture of the first peoples in the Southwest.”—Ashley Lemke, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
“The Paleoindian Southwest is a well-written and authoritative volume, one that is also a fitting capstone to the career of the late Bruce Huckell. It provides a concise history of research and overview of what we know to date that will benefit not only southwestern archaeologists, but anyone interested in the earliest reach of North American history.”—Robert L. Kelly, professor emeritus, University of Wyoming
June 2026, 420 pp., 6 x 9
4 illustrations
Hardcover 978-1-64769-303-9 $35.00s
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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Volume 39
Edited by Mark Matheson
Hardcover 978-1-60781-156-1 $35.00s
How to Respond Better to the Next Pandemic
Remedying Institutional Failures
Allen Buchanan
eBook 978-1-64769-170-7
Hardcover 978-1-64769-196-7 $60.00s
Paper 978-1-64769-169-1 $19.95
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Volume 40
Edited by Mark Matheson
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978 at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, were established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner. Lectureships are awarded to outstanding scholars or leaders in broadly defined fields of human values and transcend ethnic, national, religious, or ideological distinctions.
Charles R. Beitz, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics, Princeton University
For the People? Democratic Representation and Its Failures
Lecture I. Intimations of Failure
Lecture II. Regulating Rivalry
Laurie Bristow, University of Cambridge Human Values and Foreign Policy
Seth Lazar, Professor of Philosophy, Australian National University
Governing the Algorithmic City
Fintan O’Toole, journalist and literary critic
Lecture I. Against Artfulness
Lecture II. Negative Capability
Margaret Hiza Redsteer, geomorphologist and professor, University of Washington Bothell
Lecture I. On Resilience: A Capacity to Absorb Disturbances and Shocks
Lecture II. Barriers to Transforming Climate Dialogues
Kim Stanley Robinson, award-winning science fiction author
Can Science Fiction Fuel Social and Political Change in our Ecological Crisis?
“I hope these lectures will contribute to the intellectual and moral life of mankind. I see them simply as a search for a better understanding of human behavior and human values. This understanding may be pursued for its own intrinsic worth, but it may also eventually have practical consequences for the quality of personal and social life.”—Obert Clark Tanner
Mark Matheson is professor (lecturer) in the Department of English at the University of Utah
A Fateful Day in 1698
The Remarkable SobaipuriO’odham Victory over the Apaches and Their Allies
Deni J. Seymour
In 1698, the Apache and their allies attacked a sleeping Sobaipuri-O’odham village on the San Pedro River at the northern edge of New Spain, now in southern Arizona. This book, about one of the most important battles of the era in this region, reads like a mystery. It addresses the methodological question of how we can confidently infer anything reliable about the past.
Translations of original Spanish accounts by Father Kino and others convey important details about the battle, while the archaeological record and ethnographic and oral traditions provide important correctives to the historic account. A new battlefield signature is identified, and the context of the battle provides unprecedented information about what the Sobaipuri grew and hunted in this location, including the earliest known wheat.
Paper 978-1-64769-300-8 $32.00s
Available March 2026
With Grit and Determination
A Century of Change for Women in Great Basin and American Archaeology
Edited by Suzanne Eskenazi and Nicole M. Herzog
Spanning more than one hundred years of women’s careers and lives, this collection illuminates what it was and is to be a female archaeologist. These personal accounts of researchers, ethnographers, and field archaeologists in the private, public, and academic sectors highlight the unique role women have played in the development of American and Great Basin archaeology. Written by women trained or working in the Great Basin, these accounts reflect the broader landscape of American archaeology, offering a glimpse into a larger narrative about making one’s way in a historically male field. By sharing their stories, the authors highlight the positive aspects of the field, recognize the challenges that still exist, and encourage conversations about inclusion, diversity, and the future.
Paper 978-1-64769-301-5 $29.95
Available March 2026
New Deal Archaeology in the West
Edited by Kelly J. Pool and Mark L. Howe
From 1933 to 1944, a wide range of archaeological and cultural heritage projects were funded across the United States as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The results of work east of the Mississippi River are amply documented in other publications. However, little has been reported or synthesized regarding western archaeological work, its role in economic recovery, or its impact on the direction and knowledge of the discipline. This volume shares previously untold stories of New Deal archaeology from across the American West and explores insights into the past revealed by these projects.
Descriptions of New Deal projects and their contributions to our understanding of the past, as well as the stories of those involved—archaeologists, avocationalists, and others—are woven together across the chapters.
Paper 978-1-64769-302-2 $34.95
Available March 2026
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The River Wild
A Celebrated Journey Down the Whitewater Rapids of the Grand Canyon
Cecil Kuhne
Embark on an unforgettable adventure down the mighty Colorado River in The River Wild: A Celebrated Journey down the Whitewater Rapids of the Grand Canyon. Former professional river guide Cecil Kuhne takes readers through 225 miles of towering canyon walls, surging currents, and legendary rapids that have challenged explorers for over 150 years. From the historic first descent of John Wesley Powell’s expedition to the modern thrill-seekers navigating Lava Falls, Crystal, and Hance, this book captures the heart-pounding excitement of whitewater rafting. With vivid descriptions of the canyon’s breathtaking geology, lush flora, and abundant wildlife, Kuhne blends history, adventure, and natural beauty into an immersive journey. Whether you’re a seasoned river runner or an armchair explorer, The River Wild offers a front-row seat to one of the world’s most exhilarating river expeditions.
eBook 978-1-64769-266-7
Paper 978-1-64769-265-0 $19.95
A Reed Shaken with the Wind
A Human and Natural History of the Bear River Marsh
Andrew H. Hedges
A Reed Shaken with the Wind tells the story of the Bear River Marsh, freshwater and sheltered grasslands on the northeast end of the Great Salt Lake. Despite being one of Utah’s most renowned hunting and birdwatching locations, the marsh today holds only a shadow of its former ecological vitality. Tracing the marsh from its creation during the last ice age to its current status as an imperiled national wildlife refuge, Hedges draws on geology, ecology, archaeology, wildlife biology, and water resource management to explore the natural and human forces that shaped the marsh and contributed to its decline.
eBook 978-1-64769-242-1
Hardcover 978-1-64769-240-7 $75.00s
Paper 978-1-64769-241-4 $34.95
Unsettling Scripture
Iroquois and the Book of Mormon Thomas W Murphy
In Unsettling Scripture: Iroquois and the Book of Mormon, anthropologist Thomas W Murphy delves into the visions of Seneca prophet Handsome Lake, the epic narratives of the Iroquois Confederacy, and the origin story of the Book of Mormon, revealing surprising parallels between Indigenous and Mormon traditions. Through ethnohistorical research and decolonizing methodologies, Murphy reexamines how both communities understand their origins, faith, and prophecy. From Handsome Lake’s revelations to Joseph Smith’s seer stone, from ancient sibling rivalries to the Great Peace, this book unsettles traditional narratives while opening new conversations on scripture, identity, and cultural exchange. Drawing from living Indigenous voices, Unsettling Scripture challenges readers to rethink sacred texts and the histories they tell.
eBook 978-1-64769-264-3
Hardcover 978-1-64769-262-9 $90.00s
Paper 978-1-64769-263-6 $34.95
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