COMPANION BOOK TO SCENIC ICONS SYNOPSIS
A TRAVELER'S FIELD GUIDE TO SCENIC SOUTHWEST DESTINATIONS provides readers with additional information featured in SCENIC ICONS OF THE SOUTHWEST: A Literary Travelogue of National Parks, National Monuments, State Parks, and Archaeological Ruins. For example, a thorough background on tectonic plates, archeology, the Colorado Plateau, popular destinations in the Southwest such as Jerome, Sedona, Taos, slot canyons, hiking trails throughout the Plateau, as well as all the other main topics featured in the first book in this two-book series. For more information, please read the synopsis to Scenic Icons of the Southwest. Given that text’s subject matter, the topics discussed above are presented in the companion book in more detail, and for those who want to know and learn more about such topics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1) ACCLAIMED SOUTHWEST CITIES:
Albuquerque///Cortez///Durango///Flagstaff///Gallup///Jerome-Clarkdale///
Moab///Phoenix///Prescott///Santa Fe///Sedona///Tucson
2) ANCESTRAL PUEBLOANS: A Discovery
3) ARCHEOASTRONOMY OF THE ANCESTRAL PUEBLOANS
4) ARCHAEOLOGICAL TIMELINE
5) CANNIBALISM IN THE SOUTHWEST (The Abhorrent Man-Corn Subject)
6) CHACO CANYON ARCHAEOASTRONOMY
7) CORONADO AND THE CONQUISTADORS
8) DESERT ECOLOGY
9) DINOSAURS
10) ETHNOBOTANY (sample included; see below)
11) GLEN CANYON/LAKE POWELL: The Environmental Story
12) GRAND CANYON THEORIES: Beyond The Fairytale
13) HIKING ICONS and SLOT CANYONS:
The Wave///Tent Rocks/Buckskin Gulch///Dry Fork of Coyote Gulch///Coyote Gulch///Paria Canyon///Lower Calf Creek///Upper Calf Creek///Coal Mine Canyon///Delicate Arch and /Devil's Garden (Arches NP)///Red Canyon///Rim Overlook (Capitol Reef NP)///Honaker Trail (Goosenecks of the San Juan)///Upheaval Dome (Canyonlands NP)///Grand View Trail (Grand Canyon NP)///Skutumpah Terrace (featuring, Bull Valley Gorge, Sheep Creek, and Willis Creek)
Slot canyons: Zion Narrows///Peekaboo///Spooky///Brimstone///Antelope Canyon Upper and Lower)///Water Holes///Blue Pool Wash///the Cockscomb
14) MEXICO-NEW MEXICO: Relevant Background
15) MIMBRES-MOGOLLON CULTURE
16) PANGEA: THE SUPERCONTINENT
17) POTTERY (of the Ancestral Puebloans)
18) ROCK ART (of the Ancestral Puebloans)
19) ROUTE 66
20) THE ART OF BACKPACKING
21) THE COLORADO PLATEAU: A Cache Of Scenic Icons
22) THE GREAT DYING AND K-T EVENTS
23) THE GREAT DROUGHT (The Ancestral Puebloan Egress off the Colorado Plateau)
24) THE HOPI INDIANS
25) THE NAVAJO
26) THE PAINTED DESERT
27) THE PECOS CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM: Chronology Of The Ancestral Puebloan Eras
28) THE PUEBLOANS
29) THE SOUTHERN PAIUTE
30) Zuñi TRIBAL HISTORY
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