Don't Let the Sun Step Over You
A White Mountain Apache Family Life, 1860–1975
Don't Let the Sun Step Over You
When the Apache wars ended in the late nineteenth century, a harsh and harrowing time began for the Western Apache people. Living under the authority of nervous Indian agents, pitiless government-school officials, and menacing mounted police, they knew that resistance to American authority would be foolish. But some Apache families ...
A Nation of Villages
Riot and Rebellion in the Mexican Huasteca, 1750-1850
Women and the Conquest of California, 1542-1840
Codes of Silence
The Protohistoric Pueblo World, A.D. 1275-1600
Negotiating Economic Development
Identity Formation and Collective Action in Belize
Desert Patriarchy
Mormon and Mennonite Communities in the Chihuahua Valley
Chicana/o Identity in a Changing U.S. Society
¿Quién Soy? ¿Quiénes Somos?
Like a Brother
Grenville Goodwin’s Apache Years, 1928-1939
There's a Bobcat in My Backyard
Living with and Enjoying Urban Wildlife
Stories and Stone
Writing the Ancestral Pueblo Homeland
Stalking the Big Bird
A Tale of Turkeys, Biologists, and Bureaucrats
Race, Nation, and Market
Economic Culture in Porfirian Mexico
Mexican Americans and the Law
¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!
Beloved Land
An Oral History of Mexican Americans in Southern Arizona
Glen Canyon Dammed
Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country
Gateways to the Southwest
The Story of Arizona State Parks
Border Confluences
Borderland Narratives from the Mexican War to the Present
The Colorado Plateau
Cultural, Biological, and Physical Research
Arizona's War Town
Flagstaff, Navajo Ordnance Depot, and World War II
Ancient Maya Life in the Far West Bajo
Social and Environmental Change in the Wetlands of Belize
Working Women in Mexico City
Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879-1931
Speak to Me Words
Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry
Heterarchy, Political Economy, and the Ancient Maya
The Three Rivers Region of the East-Central Yucatán Peninsula
Chiricahua Mountains
Bridging the Borders of Wildness
Blanket Weaving in the Southwest
Arizona's War Town
Few American towns went untouched by World War II, even those in remote corners of the country. During that era, the federal government forever changed the lives of many northern Arizona citizens with the construction of the U.S. Army ordnance depot at Bellemont, ten miles west of Flagstaff. John Westerlund now tells how this ...
Writing on the Edge
A Borderlands Reader
The Return of the Mexican Gray Wolf
The return of the Mexican gray wolf to Arizona's Blue Range in 1998 marked more than a victory for an endangered species. Long hated by ranchers, the gray wolf had been hunted to the brink of extinction until one woman took on the challenge of restoring it to its natural habitat. Inspired by the plight of the Mexican gray wolf, retiree Bobbie Holaday formed the citizens advocacy group Preserve Arizona's Wolves (P.A.WS.) in 1987 and embarked on a crusade to raise public awareness. She soon found herself in the center of a firestorm of controversy, with environmentalists taking sides against ranchers and neighbors against neighbors. This book tells her story for the first time, documenting her eleven-year effort to bring the gray wolf back to the Blue.
As Holaday quickly learned, ranchers exerted considerable control over the state legislature, and politicians in turn controlled decisions made by wildlife agencies. Even though the wolf had been listed as endangered since 1976, opposition to it was so strong that the Arizona Game and Fish Department had been unable to launch a recovery program. In The Return of the Mexican Gray Wolf, Holaday describes first-hand the tactics she and other ordinary citizens on the Mexican Wolf Recovery Team adopted to confront these obstacles. Enhanced with more than 40 photographs32 in colorher account chronicles both the triumphs of reintroduction and the heartbreaking tragedies the wolves encountered during early phases.
Thanks to Holaday's perseverance, eleven wolves were released into the wild in 1998, and the Blue Range once again echoed with their howls. Her tenacity was an inspiration to all those she enlisted in the cause, and her story is a virtual primer for conservation activists on mobilizing at the grassroots level. The Return of the Mexican Gray Wolf shows that one person can make a difference in a seemingly hopeless cause and will engage all readers concerned with the preservation of wildlife.
All royalties go to the Mexican Wolf Trust Fund administered by the Arizona Game and Fish Department.