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Reference Library

Sometimes, I'm asked how I find all of the places I go to. I do a lot of research, which includes reading a lot of books. Below is a selected list of books in my library. I’ve even read some of them!

Books with links are available on Amazon. Purchasing a book there will help support this site. Those without a link are out of print, or I couldn't find them on Amazon.

This list is a work in progress. I am continually adding more books to my library.

Updated: 11/18/24

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  • A Sagebrush Heritage: The Story of Ben Edwards and his family - Lorena Edwards Meadows
  • Abandoned Settlements of the Eastern Mojave - Alan Hensher
  • Abandoned Washington State: From Old Barns to Atom Bombs - Howard Frisk
  • Aboriginal Alpine Ceremonialism in the White Mountains, California - Christopher Morgan, Robert L. Bettinger, Mark Giambastiani
  • Aboriginal Salt Mine at Camp Verde, Arizona - Earl H Morris
  • Across the San Juan Mountains - T. A. Rickard
  • Adjacent Lands Study, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona - NPS
  • Adventure of Caving - David R. McClurg
  • Adventures With a Desert Bush Pilot - Sylvia Winslow
  • Adventures with the Misfits - Ken Wortley
  • Adventures with the Mojave Phone Booth - Godfrey "Doc" Daniels
  • Afoot and Afield: Inland Empire: A Comprehensive Hiking Guide - David Money Harris, Jennifer Money Harris
  • Afoot and Afield: Las Vegas and Southern Nevada - Brian Beffort
  • All that Remains: Daggett’s Borate Archaeology - Cindy Baker, Mary Maniery
  • Alvord Mine, San Bernardino County, California - Larry M. Vredenburgh
  • Alpine Caving Techniques: A Complete Guide to Safe and Efficient Caving - George Marbach, Bernard Tourte
  • Alpine Sierra Trailblazer: Where to Hike, Ski, Bike, Fish and Drive from Tahoe to Yosemite - Jerry Sprout, Janie Sprout
  • Amateur Archaeologist in the Great Basin - L. J. Ettinger
  • Ambush, The Story of Bill Keys - Art Kidwell
  • American Indian Rock Art - various volumes
  • Analysis of the Prehistoric and Historic Rock Art of West-Central Colorado - Sally J. Cole
  • Anasazi Basketmaker: papers from the 1990 Wetherill-Grand Gulch Symposium - Victoria M Atkins
  • Ancient Calendrical Observing Sites in California's Mojave Desert and
    Sierra Nevada - Merle F. Walker
  • Ancient Peoples and Cultures of Death Valley - William Wallace, Edith Wallace
  • Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau - Steven R Simms
  • Ancient Rock Carvings of the Central Sierra - Willis A Gortner
  • Ancient Ruins of the Southwest: An Archaeological Guide - David Grant Noble
  • Ancient Universal Language of Man: Deciphering Petroglyphs - Chris Hegg
  • Ancient Visions: Petroglyphs and Pictographs of the Wind River and Bighorn Country, Wyoming and Montana - Julie Francis, Lawrence L Loendorf
  • Antique Bottle Identification Made Easy - David P. Robinson
  • Antique Mining Equipment and Collectibles - David W. Pearson, Ron Bommarito
  • Antoine Robidoux, Buckskin Entrepreneur - John D. Barton
  • Anza-Borrego Desert Region: A Guide to State Park and Adjacent Areas of the Western Colorado Desert - Diana Lindsay, Lowell Lindsay
  • Anza-Borrego Desert State Park Cultural Resources Inventory - Joan S. Schneider, Ph.D., Matthew C. Hall, Ph.D., Marla Mealey, M.A.
  • Anza's California Expeditions, 5 Volumes - Herbert Eugene Bolton
  • Archaeological Evaluation and Site Inventory in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Vol 1 & 2 - Alan R. Schroedl
  • Archaeological Explorations in Shasta Valley, California - Blossom Hamusek, Eric W. Ritter, Julie Burcell
  • Archaeological Inventory Report of the Owlshead Amargosa Mojave Basin Planning Units of the Southern California Desert Area - Richard H Brooks, Richard Wilson, Sheilagh Brooks
  • Archaeological Investigations at Panaca Summit - Robert G. Elston, Kenneth Juell
  • Archaeological Investigations in Death Valley National Monument 1952-1957 - W. J. Wallace
  • Archaeological Investigations in the Southern Sierra Nevada: the Bear Mountain Segment of the Pacific Crest Trail - Kelly McGuire, Alan P. Garfinkel
  • Archaeological Overview of the Northern Channel Islands California - Michael A. Glassow
  • Archaeological Sites in Welsh Canyon, Las Animas County, Colorado - Lawrence L. Loendorf, Christopher R. Loendorf
  • Archaeological Survey of Mutau Flat Ventura County, California - Hal Eberhart, Agnes Bierman Babcock
  • Archaeological Survey of the Mojave River and Adjacent Regions - Gerald A. Smith
  • Archaeological Survey Report for the Salton Seismic Imaging Project - Michael Mirro, M.A., R.P.A., Melinda Horne, M.A., R.P.A., Dennis P. McDougall, Joan George
  • Archaeology and History of the McCain Valley Study Area, Eastern San Diego County, California - John R. Cook, Scott G. Fulmer
  • Archaeology and Rock Art of the Eastern Sierra and Great Basin Frontier - Alan Garfinkel
  • Archaeology of Abandonment, Ghost Towns of the American West - Paige Margaret Peyton
  • Archaeology of Ancient Arizona - Jefferson Reid, Stephanie Whittlesey
  • Archaeology of Castle Park, Dinosaur National Monument - Robert F. Burgh, Charles R. Scoggin
  • Archaeology of Pinyon House, Two Eagles, and Crater Middens: Three Residential Sites in Owens Valley, Eastern California - Robert L. Bettinger
  • Archaeology of the Northeast Mojave Desert - Gary B. Coombs
  • Archaeology of Owl Canyon and Stoddard Valley, Mojave Desert - William Eckhardt, M. Jay Hatley, Russell L. Kaldenberg
  • Archaeology of the Western Mojave - Gary B. Coombs
  • Archaeology of Selected Springs and Playas on Fort Irwin and in Portions of the Avawatz Mountains - Russell L Kaldenberg
  • Archaeology of Southeast Arizona - A Class I Cultural Resource Inventory - Gordon Bronitsky and James D. Merritt
  • Archaeology of Wildrose Canyon, Death Valley National Monument - William James Wallace; Edith S. Taylor
  • Archeological Assessment of Canyon de Chelly National Monument - James A. McDonald
  • Archeological Data Recovery at the Rim of the Grand Canyon, Shoshone Point Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona - Nancy E. Pearson
  • Archeological Inventory and National Register Evaluation for the Baca Land Exchange La Jara Reservoir Parcels Conejos County, Colorado - Susan J. Wells
  • Archeological Inventory and Testing at Indian Camp and Tie Canyon, Death Valley National Park, Inyo County, California - Nancy E. Pearson
  • Archeological Investigations along Cactus Forest Drive - Loy C. Neff, Nancy E. Pearson, Nicole M. Arendt
  • Archeological Investigations at 3-Mile Bar: Testing at Sites AZ C:02:84 and C:02:40 (GC) Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Arizona - Loy C. Neff, Christopher C. Corey
  • Archeological Investigations at Ferry Swale Bench: Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Arizona - Loy C. Neff, Meredith A. Wilson
  • Archeological Investigations at Joshua Tree National Park, California - Loy C. Neff and Meredith A. Wilson
  • Archeological Investigations at Puerco Ruin, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona - Jeffery F. Burton
  • Archeological Investigations at the Upper Ruin, Tonto National Monument Part 1 Salvage Excavations at the Upper Ruin, AZ - Gregory L. Fox, Elaine A. Guthrie
  • Archeological Investigation of Rooms 15 and 16 at the Upper Cliff Dwelling (AZ U:8:48 [ASM]), Tonto National Monument - Gregory L. Fox
  • Archeological Investigations in the Central Sierra Nevada: The 1981 El Portal Project - Mark F. Baumler, Scott L. Carpenter
  • Archeological Overview of Great Basin National Park - Krista Deal
  • Archeological Overview of Petrified Forest National Park - Yvonne G. Stewart
  • Archeological Overview of Redwood National Park - Michael J. Moratto
  • Archeological Reconnaissance of Southern Utah - Julian H. Steward
  • Archeological Research Design For Yosemite National Park, California - Michael J. Moratto
  • Archeological Research in Glen Canyon, 1977, Vol. I, II, & III - Alan R. Schroedl
  • Archeological Survey and Architectural Study of Montezuma Castle National Monument - Susan J. Wells, Keith M. Anderson
  • Archeological Survey and Testing at Petrified Forest National Park, 1987 - Susan J. Wells
  • Archeological Survey at Organ Pipe National Monument, Southwestern Arizona: 1989-1991 - Adrianne G. Rankin
  • Archeological Survey of Grizzly Ridge 1995 A Section 110 Planning Survey, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument - Gregory L. Fox
  • Archeological Survey of Natural Bridges National Monument, Southeastern Utah - Janet L. McVickar
  • Archeological Survey of the Mojave River Area and Adjacent Regions - Gerald A Smith
  • Archeological Survey for the Shivwits Plateau Multiyear Prescribed Burn Project, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument - Joseph Svinarich
  • Archeological Survey in northeastern Death Valley National Monument - C. Michael Barton
  • Archeological Survey in the Eastern Tucson Basin - Kay Simpson and Susan J. Wells
  • Archeological Survey of Lower Vine Ranch, Death Valley National Monument - Krista Deal, Lynne D'Ascenzo
  • Archeological Survey of Newly Acquired Lands in Saguaro National Park: 1996, 1997 and 1998 - Loy C. Neff, Stacie A. Reutter, Dawn A. Frost
  • Archeological Survey of Proposed Prescribed Burn Units and Trail Rehabilitation on the Shivwits Plateau of Parashant National Monument, Arizona - Mary Robertson, Art MacWilliams
  • Archeological Survey of Saguaro National Monument, 1994: The Saguaro Land Acquisition and Trails Inventory - Kevin D. Wellman
  • Archeological Survey of the Ajo Crest Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument Southwestern Arizona - Michael G. Mallouf
  • Archeological Survey of the Twenty Nine Palms Region - Elizabeth W Crozer Campbell
  • Archeology of Faraway Ranch, Arizona - Mark F. Baumler
  • Archeology of Gila Cliff Dwellings - Keith M. Anderson, Gloria J. Fenner, Don P. Morris, George A. Teague, Charmion McKusick
  • Archeology of Mitchell Caverns - Diana G Pinto
  • Archeology of Pleistocene Lake Mohave - Elizabeth W. Crozer Campbell, William H. Campbell, Ernst Antevs, Charles Avery Amsden, Joseph A. Barbieri, Francis D. Dode
  • Archeology of Sivu'ovi - Jeffery F. Burton
  • Archeology of the Death Valley Salt Pan, California - Alice Hunt
  • Archeology of Zion Park - Albert H. Schroeder
  • Arches of the Alabama Hills - Orlyn Fordham
  • Arches of the Escalante Canyons and Kaiparowits Plateau - Jens Munthe
  • Arizona Bureau of Mines
    • Hundreds of Bulletins and Special Collections
  • Arizona's Ho'ok Geoglyph - Phil G. Garn
  • Arizona's Rock Art - Robin Scott Bicknell
  • Arizona Trails, Northeast Region - Peter Massey
  • Around Trona and Searles Valley - James L. Fairchild
  • Arrastras: Unique Western Historic Milling Sites - Roger E. Kelly, Marsha C. S. Keilly
  • Assessment of the Imperial Sand Dunes as a Native American Cultural Landscape - John C. Russell, Clyde M. Woods, Jackson Underwood
  • Around Trona and Searles Valley - James L Fairchild, Russell L. Kaldenberg
  • At Play in the King's Forest: Access and Adventure on the North Fork of the American River - Sean Jeffrey Pries
  • Atlas of The North American Indian - Carl Waldman
  • Aurora, Nevada - Alan Patera

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  • Kelso Conference Papers, 1987-1992 - G. Dicken Everson (Editor), Joan S. Schneider (Editor)

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  • View from the Outhouse, Memoirs Of Saline Valley - Pamela Savelo

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