Pueblos, Villages, Forts & Trails: A Guide to New Mexico's Past

Noble, David Grant

Science & Math

Univ of New Mexico Pr

Ancient Ruins of the Southwest: An Archaeological Guide

History

Americas

NORTHLAND PRESS

This third edition of David Grant Noble's indispensable guide to archaeological ruins of the American Southwest includes updated text and thirteen newly opened archaeological sites. From Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument in Texas to the Zuni-Acoma Trail in New Mexico, reader will be provided with old-time favorites and new treasures. In addition to descriptions of each site, Noble provides time-saving tips for the traveler, citing major highways, nearby towns and the facilities they offer, campgrounds, and other helpful information. Filled with photos of ruins, petroglyphs, and artifacts, as well as maps, this is a guide every traveler needs when they are exploring the Southwest.

Cooper Square Publishing Llc

David Grant Noble has assembled a collection of nine essays written for the nonspecialist by scholars who shed new light and offer new speculation on the intriguing prehistoric Chaco culture. The essays cover archaelology on the Canyon; Chacoan art, architechture, rock art and astronomy; the puzzling network of roads; and the Navajos who live in the area today.

New Light on Chaco Canyon

Travel

School of American Research Press

The prehistoric people christened "Hohokam" by twentieth century archaeologists lived in the Sonoran desert of what is now southern Arizona from AD1 to the fifteenth century. This book summarizes, in non-technical language, archaeologists' current understanding of the Hohokam and their way of life, their religion, the environment in which they lived, their crafts, and their agriculture.

The Hohokam: Ancient People of the Desert

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

School for Advanced Research/Sar pr

Initially stationed at the U.S. Army's counterintelligence headquarters in Saigon, David Noble was sent north to launch the army's first covert intelligence-gathering operation in Vietnam's Central Highlands. Living in the region of the Montagnards- Vietnam's indigenous tribal people, deemed critical to winning the war- Noble documented strategic hamlets and Green Beret training camps, where Special Forces teams taught the Montagnards to use rifles rather than crossbows and spears. In this book, he relates the formidable challenges he confronted in the course of his work. Weaving together memoir, excerpts from letters written home, and photographs, Noble's compelling narrative throws light on a little-known corner of the Vietnam War in its early years- before the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and the deployment of combat units- and traces his transformation from a novice intelligence agent and believer in the war to a political dissenter and active protester.

Saigon to Pleiku: A Counterintelligence Agent in Vietnam's Central Highlands, 1962‒1963

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

McFarland

This fourth edition of David Grant Noble's indispensable guide to archaeological ruins of the American Southwest includes updated text and many newly opened archaeological sites. From Alibates Flint Quarries in Texas to the Zuni-Acoma Trail in New Mexico, readers are provided with such favorites as Chaco Canyon and new treasures such as Sears Kay Ruin. In addition to descriptions of each site, Noble provides time-saving tips for the traveler, citing major highways, nearby towns and the facilities they offer, campgrounds, and other helpful information. Filled with photos of ruins, petroglyphs, and artifacts, as well as maps, this is a guide every traveler needs when exploring the Southwest.

Ancient Ruins and Rock Art of the Southwest: An Archaeological Guide

Taylor Trade Publishing

Surveys the history, culture, and lifestyles of the ancient Indians of the Southwest through 101 questions.

101 Questions About Ancient Indians of the Southwest

Children's Books

Western Natl Parks Assoc

In the Places of the Spirits

This book represents the culmination of David Grant Noble's forty-year career as a fine arts photographer and writer. It features seventy-six duotone plates of the land, people, and deep past of the Southwest, most published here for the first time. Accompanying these beautiful images are personal reflections interwoven with historical and anthropological information. The moving passages reveal much about the man and the magnificent land that inspires his artistry.
"The places we know," Noble writes, "can be infused with memory and spirit, and landscapes can have soul. The stories contained may speak of creation, gods, mythic monsters, and heroes. They may hold narratives reminding us of triumphs and defeats, sorrows and joys. A place is more than a landform or an ecosystem; it has the capacity to evoke emotion, transmit knowledge and wisdom, and even show people how to live."
These photographs and words portray the land's soul, the artist's vision. Through them, the ancient landscapes and peoples of the Southwest tell their tales, display their beauty, remind us that we are only the most recent of many who have lived and been inspired here.

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

School for Advanced Research Press

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