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.

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First Impressions

A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Desierto

Memories of the Future

By Charles Bowden; Introduction by William deBuys
University of Texas Press

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
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Río

A Photographic Journey down the Old Río Grande

Edited by Melissa Savage; Introduction by William deBuys
University of New Mexico Press

Weaving together landscape and memory, this book presents historical photographs of the Río Grande of the American Southwest.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Enchantment and Exploitation

The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range, Revised and Expanded Edition

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Playing the Odds

Las Vegas and the Modern West

University of New Mexico Press

"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
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Salt Dreams

Land and Water in Low-Down California

By William deBuys; Photographs by Joan Myers
University of New Mexico Press

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
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