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Book of the Hopi

Book of the Hopi more books like this

by Frank Waters

In this strange and wonderful book, thirty elders of the ancient Hopi tribe of Northern Arizona--a people who regard themselves as the first inhabitants of America--freely reveal the Hopi worldview for the first time in written form. The Hopi kept this view a secret for countless centuries, and anthropologists have long struggled to understand it. ...

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Man Who Killed the Deer

Man Who Killed the Deer more books like this

by Frank Waters

The story of Martiniano, the man who killed the deer, is a timeless story of Pueblo Indian sin and redemption, and of the conflict between Indian and white laws; written with a poetically charged beauty of style, a purity of conception, and a thorough understanding of Indian values.

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Masked Gods: Navaho & Pueblo Ceremonialism

Masked Gods: Navaho & Pueblo Ceremonialism more books like this

by Frank Waters

"A fascinating and important book". -- The New York Times

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Anasazi: Ancient People of the Rock

Anasazi: Ancient People of the Rock more books like this

by Donald G Pike, David Muench, Frank Waters (Foreword by)

A rich visual documentation of the ancient Native Americans who lived in the Four Corners region of the Southwest. Brilliant photography of their massive pueblo cities accompanies the eminently readable text. 127 full-color and black-and-white photographs.

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The Earp Brothers of Tombstone: The Story of Mrs. Virgil Earp

The Earp Brothers of Tombstone: The Story of Mrs. Virgil Earp more books like this

by Frank Waters

This composite biography of Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil, James, and Warner Earp is based on the recollections of Mrs. Virgil Earp, dictated to the author in the 1930s, and amplified by new documentary evidence unearthed by him in 1959.

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Woman at Otowi Crossing

Woman at Otowi Crossing more books like this

by Frank Waters

Based on the real life of Edith Warner, who ran a tearoom at Otowi Crossing, just below Los Alamos, The Woman at Otowi Crossing is the story of Helen Chalmer, a person in tune with her adopted environment and her neighbors in the nearby Indian pueblo and also a friend of the first atomic scientists. The secret evolution of atomic research is a ...

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Mountain dialogues

Mountain dialogues more books like this

by Frank Waters

Like a mountain, this book rests as solidly on firm ground as it soars in speculation. There are personal revelations at times humorous, and always moving. These include stories of friendship with Indian and Spanish neighbors, tales of white and black magic brujas, memories of a long horseback journey among the wild barrancas of the Sierra Madres, ...

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Man Killed Deer

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by Frank Waters

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Colorado

Colorado more books like this

by Frank Waters, Nicholai Fechin (Illustrator)

The Colorado River drains an area of over a quarter million square miles, incorporating parts of six southwestern states and Mexico. In the north and east it is dominated by the largest mountain range in North America.

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Desert Wife

Desert Wife more books like this

by Hilda Faunce, Frank Waters (Designer)

"This is the compelling narrative of the wife of an Indian trader in the desert wilderness of the Navajos before World War I. No other book about life at such trading posts equals its revealing portrayal of the land and the people, and its implication of the racial differences still confronting us today".-From the introduction by Frank Waters " ...

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Pikes Peak: Mining Saga more books like this

by Frank Waters

During the fabulous reign of Colorado Silver, innumerable prospectors passed by Pike's Peak on their way to the silver strikes at Leadville, Aspen, and the boom camps in the Saguache, Sangre de Cristo, and San Juan mountains. Pikes's Peak tells the story of Joseph Rogier, a man who seeks and finds his fortune in Colorado, and then loses everything ...

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Mexico Mystique: The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness more books like this

by Frank Waters

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Pumpkin Seed Point: Being Within the Hopi more books like this

by Frank Waters

Frank Waters lived for 3 years among the strange, secretive Hopi Indians of Arizona and was quickly drawn into their mythic, timeless reality. 'Pumpkin Seed Point' is a beautifully written personal account of Waters' inner and outer experiences in this subterranean world.

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Cuchama & Sacred Mountains more books like this

by W Y Evans-Wentz, M.A., D.Litt., D.SC., Frank Waters (Contributions by), Charles L Adams (Photographer)

W.Y. Evans-Wentz, great Buddhist scholar and translator of such now familiar works as the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, spent his final years in California. There in the shadow of Cuchama, one of the Earth's holiest mountains, he began to explore the astonishing parallels between the spiritual teaching of ...

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People of the valley more books like this

by Frank Waters

One of Frank Waters's most popular novels, People of the Valley takes place high in the Sangre de Cristo mountains where an isolated Spanish-speaking people confront a threatening world of change. "Readers who are content to take the primitive and ruthless Maria del Valle on her own terms will treasure her and return to her again and again." --The ...

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The Masked Gods more books like this

by Frank Waters

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Flight from Fiesta more books like this

by Frank Waters

Flight From Fiesta, Waters' first novel in nearly two decades, is testimony to that aspiration, emerging as a moving and masterfully-told story of two characters who must discover the potential for common ground between their personalities.

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Brave Are My People: Indian Heroes Not Forgotten more books like this

by Frank Waters, Vine Deloria, Jr. (Contributions by)

"In Brave Are My People Waters sets out to write a sequential book of biographies of Native Americans whose lives have enriched the history of America and ends by illuminating the outlines of a forgotten history.... Frank Waters's eloquent book is a much needed distillation of the dramatic essentials of Native American history... destined to ...

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Yogi at Cockroach Court more books like this

by Frank Waters

In this novel of the mestizo or mixed-blood, Frank Waters completes the Southwestern canvas begun in The Man Who Killed the Deer and People of the Valley. Set in a violent Mexican border town, the story centers on Barby, a tormented mestizo, Guadalupe, the mestiza 'percentage-girl, ' and Tai-Ling, the serene yogi.

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Frank Waters, a Bibliography: With Relevant Selections from His Correspondence more books like this

by Terence A Tanner, Marcia Keegan (Illustrator), Frank Waters (Photographer)

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Pumpkin Seed Point. more books like this

by Frank Waters

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The Lizard Woman more books like this

by Frank Waters

First published in 1930 under the title Fever Pitch, The Lizard Woman is Frank Water's first novel. It foreshadows a theme central to Waters' later work: that we must attune our spirits to the land to fully understand our places in the natural order. Waters once made a long trip on horseback deep into Mexico, and this is knitted up in his well ...

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To Possess the Land: A Biography of Arthur Rochford Manby more books like this

by Frank Waters

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The Taos Indians and the battle for Blue Lake more books like this

by R C Gordon-Mccutchan, Frank Waters (Foreword by)

It is extremely rare that a book addresses the positive side of the struggle between Native Americans and the United States Government. This book tells a fascinating story that involves not only Indians devoted to a decades-long struggle to reclaim their sacred Blue Lake and preserve their culture but also includes a host of prominent non-native ...

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Midas of Rockies: Story of Stratton & Cripple Creek more books like this

by Frank Waters, Marshall Sprague (Introduction by)

This reprint makes available again Frank Walter's dramatic and colorful 1937 biography of Winfield Scott Stratton, the man who struck it rich at the foot of Pikes Peak and turned Cripple Creek into the greatest gold camp on earth. More than regional history, Midas Of The Rockies is a story so fabulously impossible and yet so painfully true that it ...

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