A question I am frequently asked is about what kind of resources I use to help plan my trips. Besides internet searches, Google Earth, maps and word of mouth, I also have a pretty good library of books that can be helpful. I have all kinds of books including hiking guides, travel guides, photography books, and books about rock art, geology and history. I even have a few works of fiction thrown in for good measure, although I prefer reading non-fiction titles. Below I have compiled a list of the books in my collection to not only give you an idea of the resources I use, but it’s also a good way for me to keep track of which books I already have! Many of the older guidebooks are out of print, but if you click on the link of each title it will take you to the Amazon page for each book so you can purchase a copy and help support this site. If you have a book that you think I might be interested in and would like to recommend to me, please leave me a message in the comments below.

 

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• 100 Classic Hikes: Utah – Julie Trevelyan
• 1001 Colorado Place Names – Maxine Benson
• The 1859 Macomb Expedition Into Utah Territory – F.A. Barnes
• 40 Grand Trails from Deadhorse Point Road – Jack Bickers
• 4WD Adventures: Colorado – Peter Massey

 

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• Above and Beyond Slickrock – Todd Campbell
• Advised Them To Call This Place Escalante – Jerry Roundy
• Alone On The Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration – David Roberts
• The American West: History, Myth, and Legacy – Patrick Allitt *
• Anasazi America: Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place – David Stuart
• Ancient Ruins of the Southwest – David Noble
• Antoine Robidoux and Fort Uncompahgre – Ken Reyher
• Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth – Craig Childs *
• Archaeology of Clear Creek Canyon – Joel Janetski
• Arches of the Escalante Canyons and Kaiparowits Plateau – Jens Munthe
• Arizona Journey Guide – Jon Kramer
• Arizona’s Rock Art: Guide to Rock Art Sites – Robin Bicknell
• Art on the Rocks – Bruce Hucko
• Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America – Craig Childs
• ATV Trails Guide: Moab, UT – Charles Wells
• The Awesome ‘Dobie Badlands – Muriel Marshall

 

B

• Backcountry Adventures: Arizona – Peter Massey
• Backcountry Adventures: Colorado – Peter Massey
• Backcountry Adventures: Northern California – Peter Massey
• Backcountry Adventures: Southern California – Peter Massey
• Backcountry Adventures: Utah – Peter Massey
• Backpacking Nevada: From Slickrock Canyons to Granite Summits – Mike White
• Backroads of Utah’s San Rafael Swell – Christian Probasco
• The Bears Ears – David Roberts
• Behind the Bears Ears – R. E. Burrillo
• Below the Rim: Footsteps through the Grand Canyon – Dottie Fox
• Best Lake Hikes Colorado – Susan Paul
• Best Loop Hikes: Colorado – Steve Johnson
• Beyond Capitol Reef – Rick & Lynne Stinchfield
• Beyond the Great Divide: 101 True Stories of Western Colorado – Abbott Fay
• Beyond the Hundredth Meridian – Wallace Stegner
• The Big Rock Candy Mountain – Wallace Stegner *
• Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West – Hampton Sides *
• Blow Sand In His Soul: Bates Wilson the Heart of Canyonlands – Jen Quintano
• Boater’s Guide to Lake Powell – Michael Kelsey
• Book of the Hopi – Frank Waters
• Brave New West: Morphing Moab at the Speed of Greed – Jim Stiles
• The Brave Ones – Ellsworth & Emery Kolb
• Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon – Melissa L. Sevigny *
• Buena Vista’s Tales from the Past – Suzy Kelly
• Burntwater – Scott Thybony
• Butch Cassidy Was Here: Historic Inscriptions of the Colorado Plateau – James Knipmeyer

 

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• Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water – Marc Reisner
• Cameo Cliffs: Biking, Hiking & Four-Wheeling – F.A. Barnes
• Canyon Country Arches & Bridges – F.A. Barnes
• Canyon Country Dinosaur Tracks and Trackers – F.A. Barnes
• Canyon Country Explorer #1 – F.A. Barnes
• Canyon Country Footprints on the Shores of Time – F.A. Barnes
• Canyon Country Geology – F.A. Barnes
• Canyon Country Hiking and Natural History – F.A. Barnes
• Canyon Country Historic Remnants: Bits and Pieces of the Past – F.A. Barnes
• Canyon Country Mountain Biking – F.A. Barnes
• Canyon Country Off-Road Vehicle Trails: Arches & La Sals Areas – F.A. Barnes
• Canyon Country Off-Road Vehicle Trails: Canyon Rims & Needles Areas – F.A. Barnes
• Canyon Country Off-Road Vehicle Trails: Canyon Rims Recreation Area – F.A. Barnes
• Canyon Country Off-Road Vehicle Trails: Island Area – F.A. Barnes
• Canyon Country Off-Road Vehicle Trails: Maze Area – Jack Bickers
• Canyon Country Prehistoric Indians – F.A. Barnes
• Canyon Country Prehistoric Rock Art – F.A. Barnes
• Canyon Country Slickrock Hiking & Biking – F.A. Barnes
• Canyon Country’s Canyon Rims Recreation Area – F.A. Barnes
• Canyon Country’s La Sal Mountains: Hiking and Nature Handbook – Jose Knighton
• Canyon de Chelly: It’s People and Rock Art – Campbell Grant
• Canyon de Chelly: The Story Behind the Scenery – Charles Supplee
• Canyoneering: The San Rafael Swell – Steve Allen
• Canyoneering 2: Technical Loop Hikes in Southern Utah – Steve Allen
• Canyoneering 3: Loop Hikes in Utah’s Escalante – Steve Allen
• Canyoneering the Northern San Rafael Swell – Steve Allen
• Canyonlands National Park: Early History and First Descriptions – F.A. Barnes
• Canyonlands National Park Favorite Jeep Roads & Hiking Trails – David Day
• Canyonlands River Guide – Buzz Belknap
• Canyon of Dreams: Stories from Grand Canyon History – Don Lago
• Capitol Reef National Park: The Complete Hiking and Touring Guide – Rick Stinchfield
• The Chaco Handbook – R. Gwinn Vivian
• The Cliff Dwellings Speak – Bill Sagsetter
• Climbing Colorado’s Mountains – Susan Joy Paul
• Climbing Colorado’s San Juans – Bob Rosebrough
• Climbing Colorado’s Thirteeners – James Dziezynski
• Colorado 4-Wheel Drive Roads – Outdoor Books & Maps
• Colorado: A Historical Atlas – Thomas Noel
• A Colorado History – Carl Ubbelohde
• Colorado Journey Guide – Jon Kramer
• Colorado Place Names – Geo Eichler
• The Colorado Trail – Colorado Mountain Club
• Colorado’s Canyon Country – Mark Pearson
• Colorado’s Continental Divide Trail – Tom Jones
• Colorado’s Fourteeners – Gerry Roach
• Colorado’s High Thirteeners – Mike Garratt
• Colorado’s Highest: The History of Naming the 14,000-Foot Peaks – Jeri Norgren
• Colorado’s Incredible Backcountry Trails – David Day
• Colorado’s Indian Peaks – Gerry Roach
• Colorado’s Lost Creek Wilderness – Gerry Roach
• Colorado’s Thirteeners – Gerry Roach
• Colorado’s Thirteeners: From Hikes to Climbs – Gerry Roach
• Comb Ridge and Its People – Robert McPherson
• The Complete Guide to Colorado’s Wilderness Areas – Mark Pearson
• The Complete Whitewater Rafter – Jeff Bennett
• Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey – Edward Abbey
• Cowboys & Cave Dwellers – Fred Blackburn
• Coyote’s History of Moab – Jose Knighton
• Crested Butte Colorado: 65 Scenic Day Hikes – Anne Poe
• The Crimson Cowboys – Jerry Spangler
• Cross-country Skiing & Snowshoeing Ouray County – Jorg Angehrn
• Crystal… What Really Happened – Roger Neal

 

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• Dark Canyon Trail Guide – Bill Stevens
• Dave Rust: A Life in the Canyons – Frederick Swanson
• Day Hikes from the River – Tom Martin
• Death Valley Photographer’s Guide – Dan Suzio
• Deep Black: An Adventure Through the Black Canyon – Robb Magley
• Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why – Laurence Gonzales
• The Desert Cries: A Season of Flash Floods in a Dry Land – Craig Childs
• Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness – Edward Abbey
• Devil’s Gate: The Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy – David Roberts
• Dinétah: An Early History of the Navajo People – Lawrence Sundberg
• Dinosaur River Guide – Buzz Belknap
• The Disappearances: A Story of Exploration, Murder, and Mystery in the American West – Scott Thybony
• Discovering the Colorado Plateau: A Guide to the Region’s Hidden Wonders – Bill Haggerty
• Discovering the Outlaw Trail: Routes, Hideouts & Stories from the Wild West – Mike Bezemek
• Dock Marston, The Colorado River Historian: A River of Many Names – Tom Martin
• Dock Marston, The Colorado River Historian: River Dock 1942-1949 – Tom Martin
• Dock Marston, The Colorado River Historian: River Dock 1950-1960 – Tom Martin
• Dolores River Guide – Ralph DeVries
• The Dominguez-Escalante Journal – Ted Warner
• Down the Colorado: Diary of John Wesley Powell’s First Trip Through the Grand Canyon, 1869 – John Wesley Powell
• Down the Great Unknown – Edward Dolnick
• Down the River – Edward Abbey
• Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West – Heather Hansman *
• Dry Rivers and Standing Rocks: A Word Finder for the American West – Scott Thybony

 

E

• Early Rock Art of the American West – Ekkehart Malotki
• The Elk Mountain Mission – Tom McCourt
• The Emerald Mile – Kevin Fedarko
• Entrada Sandstone: Canyon Country Dead Zone – F.A. Barnes
• Escalante’s Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest – David Roberts
• The Essential Guide to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park – John Jenkins
• Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs – Ansel Adams
• The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons – John Wesley Powell
• Exploring Death Valley – Jim Mattern
• Exploring Death Valley II – Jim Mattern
• Exploring Desert Stone: John N. Macomb’s 1859 Expedition to the Canyonlands of the Colorado – Steven Madsen
• Exploring Grand Junction – Glen Weaver
• Exploring The Historic San Juan Triangle – David Smith

 

F

• Famous Coloradans – Abbott Fay
• Favorite Hikes in & Around Zion National Park – Tanya Milligan
• A Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest – Alex Patterson
• Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession – Craig Childs
• Finding Everett Ruess – David Roberts
• First Draft: Exploring the History of Western Colorado and Eastern Utah – Robert Silbernagel
• The Floater’s Guide to Colorado – Doug Wheat
• Flying Home: The Colorado Plateau From Above and Below – Craig Childs
• Footprints In the Trail – Will C. Minor
• The Four-Cornered Falcon: Essays on the Interior West and the Natural Scene – Reg Saner
• From Powell to Power: A Recounting of the First 100 River Runners through the Grand Canyon – Dock Marston
• Fruita Fat Tire Guidebook – Troy Rarick

 

G

• The Geologic Story of Canyonlands National Park – S. W. Lohman
• Geology of the Moab Area – F.A. Barnes
• Ghost Towns of Colorado – Philip Varney
• Ghosts of Glen Canyon: History Beneath Lake Powell – C. Gregory Crampton
• Ghosts of the Western San Juans – John Aldrich
• Grand Canyon Stories: Then & Now – Leo Banks
• Grand Canyon Wild: A Photographic Journey – John Annerino
• Grand Canyoneering – Todd Martin
• Grand Canyon’s North Rim and Beyond – Stewart Aitchison
• Grand Canyon Rim To Rim History – Davy Crockett
• Grand Canyon River Hikes – Tyler Williams
• Grand Canyon Treks – Harvey Butchart
• Grand Memories – Daughters of Utah Pioneers
• Grand Mesa Country: Stories from Mesa & Delta Counties – Abbott Fay
• Grand Junction Hiking Guide – Steve Kolarick
• Grand Junction Trails and Camping Guide – Nattana Johnson
• Grand Obsession: Harvey Butchart and the Exploration of Grand Canyon – Elias Butler
• Great Exploration Hoaxes – David Roberts
• Guide to Arizona Backroads & 4-Wheel Drive Trails – Charles Wells
• A Guide to Bandelier National Monument – Dorothy Hoard
• Guide to California Backroads & 4-Wheel Drive Trails – Charles Wells
• Guide to Colorado Backroads & 4-Wheel Drive Trails – Charles Wells
• Guide to Moab, Utah Backroads & 4-Wheel Drive Trails – Charles Wells
• Guide to Northern Colorado Backroads & 4-Wheel Drive Trails – Charles Wells
• Guide to Prehistoric Ruins of the Southwest – Norman Oppelt
• Guide to Rock Art of the Utah Region – Dennis Slifer
• A Guide to Rock Art Sites: Southern California and Southern Nevada – David Whitley
• Guide to Southern California Backroads & 4-Wheel Drive Trails – Charles Wells
• A Guide to Southern Utah’s Hole-in-the-Rock Trail – Stewart Aitchison
• A Guide to the Rimrock Drive, Colorado National Monument – Rose Houk

 

H

• Hayduke Lives! – Edward Abbey
• The Hayduke Trail: A Guide to the Backcountry Hiking Trail – Joe Mitchell
• Hidden Joshua Tree – Jim Mattern
• Hidden Joshua Tree II – Jim Mattern
• Hijacking a River: A Political History of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon – Jeff Ingram
• A Hiking and 4WD Guide to the Arches of the San Rafael Swell – Chris Moore
• Hiking Arizona – Bruce Grubbs
• Hiking Arizona’s Cactus Country – Erik Molvar
• The Hiking and Camping Guide to the Flat Tops Wilderness – Al Marlowe
• Hiking and Climbing in the Great Basin National Park – Michael Kelsey
• Hiking, Climbing & Exploring Jack Watson’s Ibex Country – Michael Kelsey
• Hiking and Exploring the Paria River – Michael Kelsey
• Hiking and Exploring Utah’s Henry Mountains and Robbers Roost – Michael Kelsey
• Hiking and Exploring Utah’s San Rafael Swell – Michael Kelsey
• Hiking, Biking and Exploring Canyonlands National Park – Michael Kelsey
• Hiking Colorado: A Guide to the State’s Greatest Hiking Adventures – Sandy Heise
• Hiking Colorado: Holy Cross Wilderness – Kim Fenske
• Hiking Colorado’s Geology – Ralph Hopkins
• Hiking Colorado’s Maroon Bells – Snowmass Wilderness – Erik Molvar
• Hiking Colorado’s Sangre de Cristos and Great Sand Dunes – Jason Moore
• Hiking Colorado’s Summits – David Covill
• Hiking Colorado’s Uncompahgre Wilderness – William Crick
• Hiking Colorado’s Weminuche & South San Juan Wilderness Areas – Donna Ikenberry
• Hiking Colorado’s Western Slope – Bill Haggerty
• Hiking Death Valley: A Guide to its Natural Wonders and Mining Past – Michel Digonnet
• Hiking From Here to WOW: Utah Canyon Country – Craig Copeland
• Hiking Grand Canyon Loops – George Steck
• Hiking Grand Canyon National Park – Ron Adkison
• Hiking Grand Staircase – Escalante & the Glen Canyon Region – Ron Adkison
• A Hiking Guide to Cedar Mesa – Peter Tassoni
• Hiking in the Sand Flats Recreation Area – F.A. Barnes
• Hiking Nevada: A Guide to State’s Greatest Hiking Adventures – Bruce Grubbs
• Hiking New Mexico: A Guide to the State’s Greatest Hiking Adventures – Laurence Parent
• Hiking Ruins Seldom Seen – Dave Wilson
• Hiking Southwest Canyon Country – Sandra Hinchman
• Hiking the Escalante – Rudi Lambrechtse
• Hiking the Four Corners – JD Tanner
• Hiking the Historic Route of the 1859 Macomb Expedition – F.A. Barnes
• Hiking the Mojave Desert: Natural and Cultural Heritage of Mojave National Preserve – Michel Digonnet
• Hiking Trails of Southwestern Colorado – Paul Pixler
• Hiking Utah – Dave Hall
• Hiking Utah’s High Uintas – Jeffrey Probst
• Hiking Western Death Valley National Park – Michel Digonnet
• Hiking Wyoming: A Guide to the State’s Greatest Hiking Adventures – Bill Hunger
• Hiking Wyoming’s Cloud Peak Wilderness – Erik Molvar
• Hiking Wyoming’s Wind River Range – Ron Adkison
• Hiking Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks – Erik Molvar
• Historic Adventures on the Colorado Plateau – Robert Silbernagel
• A History of Grand County – Richard Firmage
• A History of San Juan County: In the Palm of Time – Robert McPherson
• Hole In The Rock: An Epic in the Colonization of the Great American West – David Miller
• Horned Snakes and Axle Grease – Jerry Spangler
• House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest – Craig Childs
• How the Canyon Became Grand – Stephen Pyne

 

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• I Am the Grand Canyon: The Story of the Havasupai People – Stephen Hirst
• I Never Knew That About Colorado – Abbott Fay
• Images in Stone: Southwest Rock Art – David Muench
• Images of America: Colorado National Monument – Alan Kania
• In the Chasms of Water, Stone, and Light: Passages through the Grand Canyon – John Annerino
• In Search of Dominguez & Escalante – Greg Mac Gregor
• In Search of a Lost Race: The Illustrated American Exploring Expedition of 1892 – James Knipmeyer
• In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest – David Roberts
• In Search of the Spanish Trail: Santa Fe to Los Angeles, 1829-1848 – C. Gregory Crampton
• Indian Rock Art of the Southwest – Polly Schaafsma
• Insight Guides: Colorado – John Gattuso
• Island in the Sky: The Story of Grand Mesa – Muriel Marshall
• It Happened in Colorado – James Crutchfield

 

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• Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man – Barton Barbour *
• Jeep Trails to Colorado Ghost Towns – Robert Brown
• Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West – Jerry Enzler *
• Joe Duckett: The Hermit of Montezuma Canyon – James Knipmeyer

 

K

• King of the Colorado: The Story of Cass Hite – Tom McCourt
• Kokopelli: Flute Player Images in Rock Art – Dennis Slifer
• Kokopelli’s Trail: The Utah-Colorado Mountain Bike Trail System – Peggy Utesch

 

L

• The Labyrinth Rims: 60 Accesses to Green River Overlooks – Jack Bickers
• A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca – Jonathan Davis *
• The Last Canyon Voyage: A Filmmaker’s Journey Down the Green & Colorado Rivers – Charles Eggert
• Last Chance Byway: The History of Nine Mile Canyon – Jerry Spangler
• Last of the Robbers Roost Outlaws: Moab’s Bill Tibbetts – Tom McCourt
• The Last Season – Eric Blehm *
• Leave It as It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American Wilderness – David Gessner *
• Legacy on Stone: Rock Art of the Colorado Plateau and Four Corners Region – Sally Cole
• Lies, Legends & Lore of the San Juans – Roger Henn
• Life After Dead Pool: Lake Powell’s Last Days and the Rebirth of the Colorado River – Zak Podmore
• The Life and Times of Denis Julien: Fur Trader – James Knipmeyer
• The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest – David Roberts

 

M

• El Malpais, Mt. Taylor and the Zuni Mountains – Sherry Robinson
• The Man Who Walked Through Time – Colin Fletcher *
• Mapping The Four Corners: Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875 – Robert McPherson
• Memories of St. Elmo – Charlotte Merrifield
• Men Met Along the Trail: Adventures in Archaeology – Neil Judd
• Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat’ovi Massacre – James Brooks
• The Mining Camps Speak – Bill Sagsetter
• Moab Classic Hikes: 40 Hikes in the Moab Area – Damian Fagan
• Moab Country Day Hikes – F.A. Barnes
• The Moab Story from Cowpokes to Bike Spokes – Tom McCourt
• More Moab Country Day Hikes – F.A. Barnes
• Mormon Country – Wallace Stegner
• Mojave Desert Peaks: Hiking the Crown of the California Desert – Michel Digonnet
• Mojave Road Guide: An Adventure Through Time – Dennis Casebier
• The Monkey Wrench Gang – Edward Abbey
• Moon Four Corners: Including Navajo and Hopi County, Moab and Lake Powell – Julian Smith
• Mountains of Silver: Life in Colorado’s Red Mountain Mining District – David Smith
• My Canyonlands – Kent Frost

 

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• Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States – George Stewart
• National Parks of America – David Muench
• Native Roads – Fran Kosik
• Natural Arches of Arches National Park – Chris Moore
• Natural Arches of the Moab Area (North) – Chris Moore
• Natural Arches of the Moab Area (South) – Chris Moore
• A Naturalist’s Guide to the White Rim Trail – David Williams
• New Mexico Journey Guide – Jon Kramer
• New Mexico’s Continental Divide Trail – Bob Julyan
• New Mexico’s Wilderness Areas – Bob Julyan
• A Newer World: The Claiming of the American West – David Roberts
• Nine Mile Canyon: The Archaeological History of an American Treasure – Jerry Spangler
• No Walk in the Park: Seeking Thrills, Eco-Wisdom, and Legacies in the Grand Canyon – Michael Engelhard
• Non-Technical Canyon Hiking Guide to the Colorado Plateau – Michael Kelsey
• North America The Beautiful – Galen Rowell

 

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• Official Guide to Hiking Grand Canyon – Scott Thybony
• Old Spanish Trail Guide – Richard Waller
• On Foot: Grand Canyon Backpacking Stories – Rick Kempa
• On the Edge of Splendor: Exploring Grand Canyon’s Human Past – Douglas Schwartz
• On the Great American Plateau – T. Mitchell Prudden
• On the Trail of Spider Woman – Carol Patterson
• On the Ridge Between Life and Death – David Roberts
• Once They Moved Liked the Wind – David Roberts
• One Man’s West – David Lavender
• Open Midnight: Where Ancestors & Wilderness Meet – Brooke Williams
• John Otto: Trials and Trails – Alan Kania
• Ouray Hiking Guide – Kelvin Kent
• Outdoors In The Southwest: An Adventure Anthology – Andrew Gulliford
• Outlaw Tales of Colorado – Jan Murphy
• Outlaw Tales of Utah – Michael Rutter
• The Outlaw Trail: A History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch – Charles Kelly
• Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon – Michael Ghiglieri

 

P

• Paddling Colorado: A Guide to the State’s Best Paddling Routes – Dunbar Hardy
• Pahranagat Man, Nevada’s Mysterious Anthropomorph – P.B. Clabaugh
• Pass Patrol Volume Five: In Search of the Outlaw Trail – Larry Heck
• Petroglyphs and Pictographs of Utah (Volume 1) – Kenneth Castleton
• Petroglyphs and Pictographs of Utah (Volume 2) – Kenneth Castleton
• Petroglyphs in your Pocket: A New Field Guide to Rock Art – Bill Petry
• Petroglyphs of Western Colorado and the Northern Ute Indian Reservation – Carol Patterson
• Phantom Ranch – Scott Thybony
• Photographers Guide to Yellowstone & the Tetons – Joseph Lange
• Photographing California Vol. 2: South – Jeffrey Sullivan
• Photographing the Southwest Volume 1 – Southern Utah – Laurent Martres
• Photographing the Southwest Volume 2 – Arizona – Laurent Martres
• Photographing the Southwest Volume 3 – Colorado & New Mexico – Laurent Martres
• Photographing Washington – Greg Vaughn
• Plains Indian Rock Art – Michael Klassen
• Plunder of the Ancients – Lucinda Schroeder
• The Proper Edge of the Sky: High Plateau Country of Utah – Edward Geary
• The Pueblo Revolt – David Roberts

 

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R

• Rainbow Trails: Early-Day Adventures in the Rainbow Bridge Country – James Babbitt
• Rainbow Bridge: Circling Navajo Mountain and Explorations in the “Badlands” of Southern Utah and Northern Arizona – Charles Bernheimer
• The Rainbow Trail – Zane Grey
• Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks – Andrea Lankford *
• Raven’s Exile: A Season on the Green River – Ellen Meloy
• Red Hole in Time – Muriel Marshall
• Red Mountain – David Lavender
• Red Twilight: The Last Free Days of the Ute Indians – Val FitzPatrick
• Rediscovering Wonderland: The Expedition That Launched Yellowstone National Park – Mark Miller
• Report on the Geology of the High Plateaus of Utah – C.E. Dutton
• Re-Tracing the Old Spanish Trail North Branch – Ron Kessler
• Rim of Time: The Canyons of Colorado National Monument – Stephen Trimble
• River: One Man’s Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea – Colin Fletcher
• The Rio Chama: A River Guide to the Geology and Landscapes – Paul W. Bauer
• River Flowing from the Sunrise: An Environmental History of the Lower San Juan – James Aton
• River Guide to Canyonlands National Park – Michael Kelsey
• The River Knows Everything: Desolation Canyon and the Green – James Aton
• River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster – Jonathan P. Thompson
• River Runners’ Guide To Utah and Adjacent Areas – Gary Nichols
• RiverMaps Guide to the Colorado & Green Rivers in the Canyonlands of Utah & Colorado – Tom Martin
• RiverMaps Guide to the Colorado Colorado River in the Grand Canyon – Tom Martin
• RiverMaps Guide to the Dolores River of Colorado & Utah – Josh Munson
• RiverMaps Guide to the Green & Yampa Rivers in Dinosaur National Monument – Duane Whitis
• RiverMaps Guide to the Green River in Desolation and Gray Canyons – Duane Whitis
• RiverMaps Guide to the San Juan River – Duwain Whitis
• RiverMaps Guide to the Upper Colorado River – Duwain Whitis
• Roadside Guide to Indian Ruins & Rock Art of the Southwest – Gordon Sullivan
• Roads in the Wilderness: Conflict in Canyon Country – Jedediah Rogers
• Roads To Center Place: A Cultural Atlas of Chaco Canyon and the Anasazi – Kathryn Gabriel
• Rock Art in New Mexico – Polly Schaafsma
• The Rock Art of Arizona: Art for Life’s Sake – Ekkehart Malotki
• Rock Art of the American Southwest – Fred Hirschmann
• Rock Art of the Grand Canyon Region – Don Christensen
• The Rock Art of Utah – Polly Schaafsma
• Rock City: Trails & Scenes of the Moab Outback – Jack Bickers
• Rockhounding Utah: A Guide to the State’s Best Rockhounding Sites – William Kappele
• The Rocks Begin to Speak – LaVan Martineau
• Rocky Mountain Rendezvous: A History of the Fur Trade Rendezvous 1825-1840 – Fred Gowans
• The Romance of the Colorado River – Frederick Dellenbaugh
• Roof of the Rockies: A History of Colorado Mountaineering – William Bueler
• The Route of the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition 1776-77 – David Miller
• Galen Rowell’s Vision: The Art of Adventure Photography – Galen Rowell
• Everett Ruess: His Short Life, Mysterious Death and Astonishing Afterlife – Philip Fradkin
• Run, River, Run: A Naturalist’s Journey Down One of the Great Rivers of the West – Ann Zwinger

 

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• Sacred Images: A Vision of Native American Rock Art – Leslie Kelen
• Sagebrush Empire – Jonathan P. Thompson
• San Juan River Guide – Lisa Kearsley
• San Juan Solution – R.E. Derouin
• Sandstone Spine: Seeking the Anasazi on the First Traverse of the Comb Ridge – David Roberts
• Scenic Driving Wyoming – Laurence Parent
• Seeing Capitol Reef National Park: A Guide to the Roads and Trails – Ward Roylance
• The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert – Craig Childs
• Secret Places In The Mojave Desert Volume I – Jim Mattern
• Secret Places In The Mojave Desert Volume II – Jim Mattern
• Secret Places In The Mojave Desert Volume III – Jim Mattern
• Secret Places In The Mojave Desert Volume IV – Jim Mattern
• Secret Places In The Mojave Desert Volume VII – Jim Mattern
• The Serpent and the Sacred Fire: Fertility Images in Southwest Rock Art – Dennis Slifer
• Signs of Impact! in Canyon Country – F.A. Barnes
• Silver & Sawdust: Life In The San Juans – Ken Reyher
• Slickrock: Endangered Canyons of the Southwest – Edward Abbey
• Snow Sense: A Guide to Evaluating Snow Avalanche Hazard – Jill Fredston
• Soul of Nowhere – Craig Childs
• Southwest Colorado High Country Day Hikes – Ouray, Silverton & Lake City – Anne Poe
• Southwest Colorado High Country Day Hikes – Telluride – Anne Poe
• The Split Sky: A Journey of Discovery in Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon – Tom McCourt
• Standing on the Walls of Time: Ancient Art of Utah’s Cliffs and Canyons – Kevin Jones
• Standing Up Country: The Canyon Lands of Utah and Arizona – Gregory Crampton
• Stone Chisel and Yucca Brush: Colorado Plateau Rock Art – Ekkehart Malotki
• Stone Desert: A Naturalist’s Exploration of Canyonlands National Park – Craig Childs
• Stone Desert Journal – Craig Childs
• A Story of Life at Wolfe Ranch – Maxine Newell
• A Story that Stands Like a Dam – Russell Martin
• Sunk Without a Sound: The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde – Brad Dimock

 

T

• Tales of the Bachelor Mine – Jane Bennett
• Tales of Canyonlands Cowboys – Richard Negri
• Tales, Trails and Tommyknockers: Stories from Colorado’s Past – Myriam Friggens
• Tapamveni: The Rock Art Galleries of Petrified Forest and Beyond – Patricia McCreery
• Technical Slot Canyon Guide to the Colorado Plateau – Michael Kelsey
• Tenmile! Nearby Canyon of Mystery – Jack Bickers
• That Wild Country: An Epic Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of America’s Public Lands – Mark Kenyon *
• There’s This River… Grand Canyon Boatman Stories – Christa Sadler
• This America of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild – Nate Schweber *
• This Is Dinosaur: Echo Park Country and Its Magic Rivers – Wallace Stegner
• This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism and Corruption are Ruining the American West – Christopher Ketcham *
• To the Foot of the Rainbow – Clyde Kluckhohn
• Tomboy Bride – Harriet Backus
• Totality: Eclipses of the Sun – Mark Littmann
• The Towers of Hovenweep – Ian Thompson
• Traces of Fremont: Society and Rock Art in Ancient Utah – Steven Simms
• Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau – Craig Childs
• The Trail of Gold and Silver: Mining in Colorado, 1859-2009 – Duane Smith *
• Trails Less Traveled: 27 Adventurous Hikes out of Ouray, Colorado – Kelvin Kent
• True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America – Betsy Quammen *

 

U

• Ultralight Backpackin’ Tips – Mike Clelland
• Uncompahgre: A Guide to the Uncompahgre Plateau – Muriel Marshall
• The Undaunted: The Miracle of the Hole-in-the-Rock Pioneers – Gerald Lund
• The Untold History of Utah’s Grand Staircase – Escalante National Monument – Maxine Newell
• Utah: A Guide to the State – Workers of the Writers Program
• Utah Canyon Country – F.A. Barnes
• Utah Mountaineering Guide – Michael Kelsey
• Utah Place Names – John Van Cott
• Utah Thirteeners – David Rose
• Utah’s Canyon Country Place Names, Vol. 1 – Steve Allen
• Utah’s Canyon Country Place Names, Vol. 2 – Steve Allen
• Utah’s Incredible Backcountry Trails – David Day
• Utah’s Incredible Backcountry Trails, 2nd Edition – David Day
• Utah’s National Parks – Ron Adkison
• Utah’s Wilderness Areas – Lynna Howard
• Ute Mountain Tribal Park: The Other Mesa Verde – Jean Akens

 

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• Virga & Bone: Essays from Dry Places – Craig Childs

 

W

• A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon – Kevin Fedarko *
• Waterfalls of Colorado – Marc Conly
• The Way Out: A True Story of Ruin and Survival – Craig Childs
• Way Points Along the Book Mountains – Kathy Hurt
• We Swam the Grand Canyon – Bill Beer
• Western Whitewater: From the Rockies to the Pacific – Jim Cassady
• Westwater Lost and Found – Mike Milligan
• Richard Wetherill: Anasazi – Frank McNitt
• The Wetherills: Friends of Mesa Verde – Fred Blackburn
• Where Rivers Meet: Lore from the Colorado Frontier – Muriel Marshall
• White Canyon: Remembering the Little Town at the Bottom of Lake Powell – Tom McCourt
• The White Rim Trail: Mile by Mile – Robb Magley
• The Wild Bunch at Robbers Roost – Pearl Baker
• The Wilderness First Aid Handbook – Grant Lipman
• Wilderness Visionaries: Leopold, Thoreau, Muir, Olson, Murie, Service, Marshall, Rutstrum – Jim Vickery
• Wilderness Wanderers: The 1776 Expedition of Dominguez & Escalante – Ken Reyher
• William Henry Jackson’s “The Pioneer Photographer” – Bob Blair
• Wind In The Rock: The Canyonlands of Southeastern Utah – Ann Zwinger
• Wonders of Sand and Stone: A History of Utah’s National Parks and Monuments – Frederick Swanson *
• Wyoming’s Continental Divide Trail – Lora Davis

 

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Y

 

Z

• Zion & Bryce: Moon Handbook – W.C. McRae

 

 

– Titles marked with an * are audiobooks
– Last updated on 8/13/24