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                      Books About the Cedar Mesa Area


                      Victoria Atkins, editor
                      Anasazi Basketmaker: Papers from the 1990 Wetherill-Grand Gulch Symposium
                      Cultural Resource Series No. 24, Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake City, 1993 
                      Click the title to read Utah State University's digitized version!


                      Jim Beard
                      Sandstone Way: Seeking Beauty on Cedar Mesa (revised edition)
                      Virtualbookworm.com, 2006
                      Cedar Mesa Hikes: SE Utah
                      Virtualbookworm.com, 2006

                      Fred M. Blackburn and Ray A. Williamson
                      Cowboys and Cave Dwellers: Basketmaker Archaeology in Utah's Grand Gulch
                      School of American Research Press, 1997  

                      Catherine M. Cameron
                      Chaco and After in the Northern San Juan: Excavations at the Bluff Great House
                      University of Arizona Press, 2008

                      Craig Childs
                      House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest 
                      Little, Brown, 2007

                      Sally J. Cole
                      Legacy on Stone: Rock Art of the Colorado Plateau and Four Corners Region (revised and updated edition)
                      Johnson Books, 2009  

                      Amy Irvine
                      Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
                      North Point Press, 2009

                      R. G. Matson
                      The Origins of Southwestern Agriculture
                      University of Arizona Press, 1991

                      Frank McNitt
                      Richard Wetherill: Anasazi: Pioneer Explorer of Ancient Ruins in the American Southwest
                      University of New Mexico Press, 1966

                      Robert McPherson
                      Sacred Land, Sacred View: Navajo Perceptions of the Four Corners
                      Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University, Provo, 1992  
                      Comb Ridge and Its People: The Ethnohistory of a Rock
                      Utah State University Press, 2009

                      Ellen Meloy
                      The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest 
                      Henry Holt, 1999
                      The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit
                      Pantheon, 2002
                      Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
                      Pantheon, 2005 

                      Teri Paul, editor
                      Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum: Collections
                      2009

                      David Petersen
                      Cedar Mesa: A Place Where Spirits Dwell
                      University of Arizona Press, 2002

                      David Roberts
                      In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest
                      Simon and Schuster Touchstone Books, 1996
                      Sandstone Spine: Seeking the Anasazi on the First Traverse of the Comb Ridge
                      The Mountaineers Books, 2005

                      David Stuart
                      Anasazi America: Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place
                      University of New Mexico Press, 2000

                      Peter Francis Tassoni
                      A Hiking Guide to Cedar Mesa
                      University of Utah Press, 2001

                      Ann Zwinger 
                      Wind in the Rock: The Canyonlands of Southeastern Utah
                      Harper and Row, 1978













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