Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • List of Maps
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Crossroads
  • Thomas E. Sheridan
  • 1. Desert Water
  • Bill Broyles, Gayle Harrison Hartmann, and Thomas E. Sheridan
  • 2. Native Peoples of the Tinajas Altas Region: Prehistoric to Present
  • Gayle Harrison Hartmann, Mary Charlotte Thurtle, and Gary Paul Nabhan
  • 3. First Europeans to Forty-Niners: 1540â€?1854
  • Thomas E. Sheridan and Bill Broyles
  • 4. Surveyors to Campers: 1854 to the Present
  • Bill Broyles and Gayle Harrison Hartmann
  • 5. Natural History
  • Bill Broyles
  • Conclusion: Reflections on an Exceptional Place
  • When You GoAcknowledgments
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 1. Some Native American Names and Uses of Plants, Mammals, and Reptiles of the Tinajas Altas Region
  • Gary Paul Nabhan and Jacquie Gage Kahn
  • Appendix 2. Mammals at Tinajas Altas
  • Robert S. Henry
  • Appendix 3. Birds at Tinajas Altas
  • David J. Griffin
  • Appendix 4. Amphibians and Reptiles at Tinajas Altas
  • Philip C. Rosen
  • Appendix 5. Vascular Plants of the Tinajas Altas Region
  • Richard S. Felger and Thomas R. Van Devender
  • References
  • About the Authors