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Pub. Date
©2005
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"Colorado's San Luis Valley is not a place for the timid. Sizzling hot in summer, frigid cold in winter, this huge landscape is humbling in its openness, a place defined by the rhythms of nature - and by the thrust and parry of male courting female in the ritual dance of sandhill cranes. These majestic birds arrive by the thousands twice a year to feed, rest, and socialize in the valley's wetlands - invisible except from the air - and their cries...
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The Amish bishop mysteries volume 1
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"Somewhere in the Embers Lies the Truth A wildfire blazes out of control in the San Luis Valley of Colorado, leaving an elderly, Amish bachelor dead. When Bishop Henry Lapp is told the bad news, he also learns the fire was no accident. Someone intended to kill Vernon Frey. But who would want to kill Vernon? Well, practically everyone--Amish and Englischa alike. When the police point the finger at a suspect Henry knows is innocent, the bishop must...
72) Stitching rites
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Pub. Date
2000
Description
"Colcha embroidery is a traditional Spanish colonial style of textile, bed covering, or wall hanging dating from the early nineteenth century. In the first book to consider this craft, Suzanne P. MacAulay provides a detailed account of this folk art tradition that is both old and constantly renewing itself, presenting a sensitive portrayal of artists and the contexts in which they live and work." "Stitching Rites reveals how art, history, and memory...
Pub. Date
2018
Description
"The Important Things” tells the stories of San Luis Valley People First members on topics ranging from home to work and hobbies to relationships. It is an important book to read “because it will be interesting for you guys to read. You won’t get bored,” Lionel said, and Karie added, “because we are people with disabilities and we have our own story to tell you.”
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Pub. Date
2012
Description
For more than two decades strange lights and UFO sightings in the isolated San Luis Valley of southern Colorado have been the subject of media frenzy and public speculation. When stock detective Tel Veritas is sent to this mysterious, nearly uninhabited land to search for a missing herd of cattle, little does he know that he is entering another world, a place where the old Latino culture of indolence and mystery reside, where Catholic rituals and...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Leland moved from an inner-city neighborhood in Denver to five acres in the eastern part of Colorado's San Luis Valley more than a decade ago. He knew he was moving to a desert and expected only the omnipresent sage. It was a rainy summer when he began building his off-grid home, and as he worked on the roof, he noticed an astonishing thing: large swaths of brilliant color. The rabbitbrush was coming into its glorious yellow bloom, and the purple...
80) Some history and reminiscences of the San Luis Valley, Colorado: the United States in a microcosm
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Who does this land belong to? How have cultures gained access to this land? Who gets to decide who is right? These are questions that inspired Nash to write the book. Although in recent decades there have been significant studies and reports on the history [of the] San Luis Valley, and more generally the southwestern United States, this intriguing story is largely unknown to many residents. More importantly, most of the history commonly known is told...
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