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Check out this book for fascinating stories of:

• Forming of the Grand Canyon and prehistoric cliff dwellings

• Native American cultures including the Hopi Navajo and Apache

• Conquistadors and Missionaries

• Two centuries of mining, Mormon immigration, ranching

• farming, health seekers, and movie making

• Wild West legends, stage robbers, and dancehall girls

• Unsung heroes like the Navajo Code Talkers and Nellie Cashman “The Miners’ Angel”

• Mini biographies of Sandra Day O'Connor father Yosemite Hi jolly Bear Goldwater and balloon buster Frank Luke

• And much more about this beautiful land the people who inhabited it

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From Navajo Indian men in service to their country came an extraordinary weapon in the Pacific arena of the world war II. 29 Navajo Marines were recruited to adapt their language into a code so secret and difficult that the Germans and Japanese could never break it. The code grew and so did the numbers of code talkers forever altering the course of the war and American history.

This unique interactive book includes a brief history of the Navajo code talkers a lesson on learning and using the code and a four page fold out of the original code talker dictionary.

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Way out on the Colorado plateau two lines cross at right angles forming the borders of four states. You can stand on this spot and be in Arizona Colorado New Mexico and Utah all at the same time. This book covers the area roughly 150 mi around that point a land of fantastic rock formations ancient dwellings and diverse cultures. Multiple national parks and monuments have been set aside to preserve the four corners wonders. Natures rainbow of colors paints these fast landscapes and barren badlands where sandstone rock sculptures grace majestic canyons. Join us in a tour of these remarkable places with 126 brilliant photographs to get the feel for this unforgettable land and its people. Photography by Larry lindahl

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Visit a land where fire and ice combined to to create a remarkable landscape with breathtaking sapphire blue water primeval moss covered forests awesome lava formations and waterfalls at every bend. Mount mazama exploded 700 7,700 years ago shooting a giant pillar of ash and pumice 30 mi high. The mountain collapsed in on itself and over the centuries the red hot volcano cooled and filled with pure snow and rain creating one of the clearest deepest lakes in the world. But Crater lake is only a part of the show. This gem of the cascade volcanic arc is surrounded by much more.

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Here's your chance to travel down one of the world's great rivers from the first trickle to final delta. See the West's natural wonders while tracing the Colorado River and it's major tributary the Green River as they flow through several habitats and millions of years of geological history. On route to the sea the rivers been through national parks monuments wildlife refuges and recreational areas nourishing wildlife and outdoors folk alike. You'll visit rivertowns and some of the best fishing holes and recreation areas and learn about glaciers dinosaurs miners and mountain men along the way. Ride along staying dry all the way through the vast Colorado River basin and of course through the unforgettable colors and vistas of the grandis canyon on Earth.

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Stunning photographs illustrate the Grand canyon from rim to river. Look out over panoramic vistas from the south rim and north ramp and descend into the depths of the inner canyon where the Colorado River flows past walls of rock that tell a geologic story billions of years in the making.