Last Water on the Devil's Highway : a Cultural and Natural History of Tinajas Altas / Bill Broyles [and others] ; with appendices by Richard S. Felger [and others]
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: 1540�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
