Horizontal Yellow: Nature and History in the Near Southwest

by Dan Flores

Book Overview

These personal and historical meditations explore the human and natural history of the Near Southwest, a bio-region that embraces New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and slices of Colorado, Kansas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Centuries ago, the Navajos named this region the Horizontal Yellow, a landscape characterized by yellowed grass stretching in all four directions, rivers that drain from the Southern Rockies to the Gulf of Mexico, and human cultures peculiarly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826320112
• ISBN13: 9780826320117
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"