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Sunbelt States

Here are entered works on the southern and southwestern states of the continental United States, sometimes also including Hawaii.

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• The Desert: Further Studies in Natural Appearances (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1901), by John C. Van Dyke
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Hinterlands and Regional Dynamics in the Ancient Southwest (originally published 2007; open access edition Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2022), ed. by Alan P. Sullivan and James Bayman (multiple formats with commentary at Open Arizona)
• Ancestral Zuni Glaze-Decorated Pottery: Viewing Pueblo IV Regional Organization Through Ceramic Production and Exchange (Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona #72; c2008), by Deborah L. Huntley (multiple formats with commentary at Arizona)
• Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona (partial serial archives)
• Ceramic Production in the American Southwest (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1995), ed. by Barbara J. Mills and Patricia L. Crown (multiple formats with commentary at Arizona)
• Potsherds: An Introduction to the Study of Prehistoric Southwestern Ceramics and Their Use in Historic Reconstruction (Museum of Northern Arizona bulletin #25; Flagstaff: Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art, 1953), by Harold Sellers Colton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Government Supervision of Historic and Prehistoric Ruins (reprinted from Science; 1904), by Edgar L. Hewett
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Spanish Southwest, 1542-1794: An Annotated Bibliography (second edition; Quivira Society Publications v7, in 2 parts; 1937), by Henry R. Wagner (both parts: page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliography of printed works in Spanish relating to those portions of the United States which formerly belonged to Mexico (common name of an untitled early publication later published in revised form as The Spanish Southwest; 1917), by Henry R. Wagner
  • original publication: multiple formats at archive.org
  • supplement: multiple formats at archive.org
  • original and supplement: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest (1952 edition), by J. Frank Dobie (Gutenberg text)
• A Southwestern Century: A Bibliography of One Hundred Books of Non Fiction about the Southwest, by Lawrence Clark Powell
  • Preface and Part 1: HTML at Wayback Machine
  • Part 2: HTML at Wayback Machine

• Disaster at the Colorado: Beale's Wagon Road and the First Emigrant Party (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2002), by Charles W. Baley (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Down the Santa Fé Trail and Into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 (New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University press, 1926), by Susan Shelby Magoffin, ed. by Stella M. Drumm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commerce of the Prairies, by Josiah Gregg (HTML at kancoll.org)
• The Journey of Coronado, by Pedro de Castaneda (HTML at PBS)
• Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, From Fort Leavenworth in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers (Washington: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, 1848), by William H. Emory (page images in Germany)
• Through Storyland to Sunset Seas: What Four People Saw on a Journey Through the Southwest to the Pacific Coast (Chicago: Knight, Leonard and Co., 1895), by Henry S. Kneedler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Through Storyland to Sunset Seas: What Four People Saw on a Journey Through the Southwest to the Pacific Coast (Cincinnati: A.H. Pugh Printing Co., 1896), by Henry S. Kneedler (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Tramp Across the Continent (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1892), by Charles Fletcher Lummis
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Southwest in the American Imagination: The Writings of Sylvester Baxter, 1881-1889 (Frank Hamilton Cushing and the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, 1886-1889, v1; originally published 1996; this edition Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002), by Sylvester Baxter, ed. by Curtis M. Hinsley and David R. Wilcox (multiple formats with commentary at Open Arizona)
• A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by Theodore Roosevelt
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at Bartleby
• The Land of Journey's Ending (New York and London: The Century Co., c1924), by Mary Austin, illust. by John Edwin Jackson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858, by Joseph C. Ives (page images at MOA)
• The Land of the Pueblos (New York: J. B. Alden, 1888), by Susan E. Wallace
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Journey of Coronado, by Pedro de Castaneda (HTML at PBS)

• Somewhere South in Sonora: A Novel (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1925), by Will Levington Comfort
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Cycles of Conquest: The Impact of Spain, Mexico, and the United States on Indians of the Southwest, 1533-1960 (originally published 1962; open access edition (with new foreword by Sheridan) published Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020), by Edward Holland Spicer, contrib. by Thomas E. Sheridan, illust. by Hazel McFeely Fontana (illustrated HTML and Epub with commentary at Arizona)
• The Land of Journey's Ending (New York and London: The Century Co., c1924), by Mary Austin, illust. by John Edwin Jackson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cycles of Conquest: The Impact of Spain, Mexico, and the United States on the Indians of the Southwest, 1533-1960 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1962), by Edward Holland Spicer, illust. by Hazel McFeely Fontana (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reconstructing a Chicano/a Literary Heritage: Hispanic Colonial Literature of the Southwest (originally published 1993; open access edition with a new essay c2020), ed. by María Herrera-Sobek, contrib. by Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez (HTML and Epub with commentary at Open Arizona)

• Reconstructing a Chicano/a Literary Heritage: Hispanic Colonial Literature of the Southwest (originally published 1993; open access edition with a new essay c2020), ed. by María Herrera-Sobek, contrib. by Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez (HTML and Epub with commentary at Open Arizona)

• The Near Side of the Mexican Question (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1921), by Jay S. Stowell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Sunset Magazine: A Century of Western Living, 1898-1998: Historical Portraits and a Chronological Bibliography of Selected Topics (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Libraries, 1998) (page images at Stanford)
• The Land of Journey's Ending (New York and London: The Century Co., c1924), by Mary Austin, illust. by John Edwin Jackson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Potsherds: An Introduction to the Study of Prehistoric Southwestern Ceramics and Their Use in Historic Reconstruction (Museum of Northern Arizona bulletin #25; Flagstaff: Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art, 1953), by Harold Sellers Colton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Land of Journey's Ending (New York and London: The Century Co., c1924), by Mary Austin, illust. by John Edwin Jackson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Adventure Hikes and Canyoneering in the Southwest, by Christopher E. Brennen (illustrated HTML at Caltech)

• The Journey of Coronado, by Pedro de Castaneda (HTML at PBS)

• The Earp Brothers of Tombstone: The Story of Mrs. Virgil Earp (New York: C. N. Potter, c1960), by Frank Waters (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ceramic Production in the American Southwest (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1995), ed. by Barbara J. Mills and Patricia L. Crown (multiple formats with commentary at Arizona)

• Hinterlands and Regional Dynamics in the Ancient Southwest (originally published 2007; open access edition Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2022), ed. by Alan P. Sullivan and James Bayman (multiple formats with commentary at Open Arizona)

• Man, Bird, and Beast (Publications of the Texas Folk-Lore Society v8; Austin: Texas Folk-Lore Society, c1930), ed. by J. Frank Dobie (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Northern Navajo Frontier, 1860-1900: Expansion Through Adversity (Originally published: Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, c1988; this edition Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), by Robert S. McPherson
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• On the Border With Mackenzie: or, Winning West Texas From the Comanches (1935 book reprinted with new foreword by Dykes; New York: Antiquarian Press, 1961), by Robert Goldthwaite Carter, contrib. by Jeff Dykes (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of "Billy the Kid" (c1920), by Charles A. Siringo
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The History of Warner's Ranch and its Environs (Los Angeles: Privately printed, 1927), by Joseph J. Hill, contrib. by Herbert Eugene Bolton, illust. by Loren Roberta Barton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Variations in Value Orientations (Evanston, IL and Elmsford, NY: Row, Peterson and Co., 1961), by Florence Rockwood Kluckhohn and Fred L. Strodtbeck (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anasazi Basketry, Basket Maker II Through Pueblo III: A Study Based on Specimens From the San Juan River Country (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #533; 1941), by Earl Halstead Morris and Robert F. Burgh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life among the Indians: or, The Captivity of the Oatman Girls Among the Apache & Mohave Indians (San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1935), by R. B. Stratton, contrib. by Lindley Bynum, Lorenzo D. Oatman, and Olive Ann Oatman, illust. by Mallette Dean (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three Years Among the Comanches: The Narrative of Nelson Lee, the Texas Ranger, Containing a Detailed Account of His Captivity Among the Indians, His Singular Escape Through the Instrumentality of His Watch, and Fully Illustrating Indian Life as it is on the War Path and in the Camp (with new introduction; Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, c1957), by Nelson Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captivity of the Oatman Girls: Being an Interesting Narrative of Life Among the Apache and Mohave Indians (New York: Pub. for the author by Carlton and Porter, 1858), by R. B. Stratton, contrib. by Lorenzo D. Oatman and Olive Ann Oatman (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Three Years Among the Comanches: The Narrative of Nelson Lee, the Texas Ranger, Containing a Detailed Account of His Captivity Among the Indians, His Singular Escape Through the Instrumentality of His Watch, and Fully Illustrating Indian Life as it is on the War Path and in the Camp (Albany, NY: Baker Taylor, 1860), by Nelson Lee (page images at HathiTrust)

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