"A walking journey across Arizona with essays on wildfire, copper mining, border crossing, dirty politics, Native culture, violence, suburban monotony, shrinking water, local cuisine, literary culture and the Grand Canyon. I have sought to write the mostcomprehensive one-volume portrait of Arizona ever written: a deep narrative map"-- Rim to River is the story of this extraordinary journey through redrock country, down canyons, up mesas, and across...

In The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories, Stacie Denetsosie confronts long-reaching effects of settler-colonialism on Native lives in a series of gritty, wildly imaginative stories. A young Navajo man catches a ride home alongside a casket he's sure contains his dead grandfather. A gas station clerk witnesses the kidnapping of the newly crowned Miss Northwestern Arizona. A young couple's search for a sperm donor raises questions of blood...

Takes readers on a tour of the state and describes its geography, history, government, people, and places.

Introduces the geography, history, economy, famous people, and environment of the Grand Canyon State.

A woman is cruelly cut down in a remote corner of Arizona, killed on her nineteenth wedding anniversary by a drunk motorist.? A year later, the driver himself dies badly, and all suspicions point to the slain woman's still-grieving husband as his murderer. But the truth is rarely black and white in the long Southwestern shadows, and one law officer is not rushing to condemn the tragic widower so quickly: Joanna Brady, Sheriff of Cochise County.

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Gives an overview of the state of Arizona, including its history, geography, people, and living conditions.

Lists eighty short-distance, low-climb hikes in Arizona that are suitable for people who want to protect their backs and knees.