Shaping the Sierra - Nature, Culture, and Conflict in the Changing West colorado desert wildflowers Stagecoaches and the routes they

Stagecoaches and the routes they traveled capture our imagination because of the romance

When Spanish explorer Don Juan Baptista de Anza of Tubac

which still stands today

into prominence as one of the most celebrated American political figures of the twentieth century

Breceda has become a famous artist featured on public television

Shaping the Sierra - Nature, Culture, and Conflict in the Changing West colorado desert wildflowers Stagecoaches and the routes theyThe rural west is at a crossroads, and the Sierra Nevada is at the center of this social and economic change. The Sierra Nevada landscape has always been valued for its bounty of natural resource commodities, but new residents and an ever growing flood of tourists to the area have transformed the relationship between the region's nature and its culture. In an engaging narrative that melds the personal with the professional, Timothy P. Duanewho grew up