Fresno Ranch, an abandoned horse and mule operation located in a remote stretch of the Rio Grande River bordering Mexico, gives evidence of a human presence spanning centuries. The ranch saw a period of entrepreneurial mule breeding and ranching, and ownership by Texas artist and publishing heiress Jeanne Norsworthy, who built an off-the-grid, hand-constructed adobe studio on the premises.Photographer and freelance writer E. Dan Klepper spent seven years, off and on, living and wor...

Comprehensive, entertaining guide to the best trails Texas has to offerFully revised, including 30 new trailsNew details on the state's ecoregionsAll new full-color photos and maps for each hikeWith more than 80 parks, 56 wildlife management areas, 9 natural areas, and 28 historic sites and parklands, Texas offers a wide range of hiking options. In this new edition of 100 Classic Hikes: Texas, writer, hiker, and nat...

In a short line of Texas Highways distinguished photo editors, J. Griffis Smith has been described by a fellow photographer as a “galactic force,” reveling in taking pictures of everything Texas wherever the magazine’s assignments took him, all with the goal of inspiring “folks to travel.”Celebrating the roaming life of a professional magazine photographer, Texas Highways has joined with Smith to assemble a collection of signature images from three decades of work...

From the host of the Travel Channel’s “The Wild Within.”A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination.In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite the odds—there’s only a 2 percent chance of drawing the permit, and fewer than 20 percent of those hunters are successful—Rinella managed to kill a buf...

An eye-opening historic guidebook that draws on the latest scholarly research as well as a lifetime of exploration to put a light on the extraordinary Anasazi culture of the American Southwest.The greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest is the fate of the Anasazi, the native peoples who in the eleventh century converged on Chaco Canyon (in today's southwestern New Mexico) and built what has been called the Las Vegas of its day, a flourishing cultural ...

Discover the incredible highlights, history, geology & nature of Yellowstone National Park with this entertaining, educational, point-by-point Waypoint Tour complete with park insider stories & detailed tour maps. Your personal tour guide for Yellowstone travel adventure! www.waypointtours.com Waypoints Include: 1) Yellowstone 2) Madison & Firehole Canyon 3) Fountain Paint Pots 4) Firehole Lake Drive 5) Midway Geyser Basin 6) Biscuit Basin & Black Sand Basin 7) Old Faithful Inn & Lodge 8) ...

Workout Like An Animal!Discover How Bodyweight Exercises Based On Animal Movement Can Help You Transform Your Body And Your LifeWhat is the ultimate form of bodyweight training? Is it Tai Bo? Cross fit? Perhaps some form of running? Some of these forms of exercises are good (and others not, *cough * running *cough*) but they are not the best. If you want to perform the best bodyweight exercises that will make you lean and mean in record time look no further than Mother Natu...

Naturalist Craig Childs's "utterly memorable and fantastic" study of the desert's dangerous beauty is based on years of adventures in the deserts of the American West (Washington Post).Like the highest mountain peaks, deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to the most seasoned explorers. Craig Childs, who has spent years in the deserts of the American West as an adventurer, a river guide, and a field instructor in natural history, has devel...

“Let’s get lost together . . . ”Lost in My Own Backyard brings acclaimed author Tim Cahill together with one of his—and America’s—favorite destinations: Yellowstone, the world’s first national park. Cahill has been “puttering around in the park” for a quarter of a century, slowly covering its vast scope and exploring its remote backwoods. So does this mean that he knows what he’s doing? Hardly. “I live fifty miles from the park,” says Cahill, “but proximity does no...

Explore the fascinating highlights, history, geology & nature of Grand Canyon National Park with this entertaining, educational, point-by-point Waypoint Tour complete with travel expert stories & detailed tour maps. Your personal tour guide for Grand Canyon travel adventure! www.waypointtours.com Waypoints Include: Grand Canyon Village Area Tour 1) Grand Canyon South Rim 2) Mather Point 3) Canyon View Information Plaza 4) Yavapai Point 5) Train Depot 6) Hopi House 7) El Tovar Hotel 8) Brig...

Two volumes of fiction from the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams : "Lopez feels a deep spiritual connection to the natural world." — San Francisco ChronicleTo National Book Award–winning author Barry Lopez, the desert and the river are landscapes alive with poetry, mystery, seduction, and enchantment. In these two works of fiction, the narrator responds viscerally and emotional...

National Book Award–winning author Barry Lopez explores the challenges and joys of the human experience through the frame of the natural world in fourteen arresting and extraordinary essays.In Crossing Open Ground, award-winning literary writer Barry Lopez offers prescient, beautiful, and thought-provoking reflections on how the natural world can define and illuminate our sense of self. Whether he's traversing the Arctic tundra or the deserts of the Americ...