William deBuys
William deBuys is the author of numerous books, including Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-Down California, A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest, and the Pulitzer Prize nonfiction finalist River of Traps: A New Mexico Mountain Life, with photographs by Alex Harris.
Enchantment and Exploitation
The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range, Revised and Expanded Edition
Now, more than thirty years later, this revised and expanded edition provides a long-awaited assessment of the quality of the journey that New Mexican society has traveled in that time--and continues to travel.
- Copyright year: 2015
Salt Dreams
Land and Water in Low-Down California
A history of the Salton Sea, which has become a prophetic story of mounting environmental crises that impinge on the water supply of southern California's sixteen million people.
- Copyright year: 1999
Río
A Photographic Journey down the Old Río Grande
Weaving together landscape and memory, this book presents historical photographs of the Río Grande of the American Southwest.
- Copyright year: 2016
Playing the Odds
Las Vegas and the Modern West
"Hal Rothman is both the greatest Western historian of his generation and an H. L. Mencken in cowboy boots."--Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums and Buda's Wagon
- Copyright year: 2007
Desierto
Memories of the Future
A forerunner of Charles Bowden’s acclaimed books about the harsh life in the Southwestern borderlands, Desierto offers seven essays that combine the lore of the gypsy scholar, the incantatory power of a prose shaman, and the bracing cussedness of the old-style American maverick.
- Copyright year: 2018
First Impressions
A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest
First Impressions: A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the first nonnatives to describe them.
- Copyright year: 2017