XIT Christa C. Jones Most of the photographs have

Most of the photographs have been taken by author himself

Adams depicts the problem of dwindling supplies of firewood and the search for alternatives

Bear hatches a plan

strong evidence based on twentieth-century archeology points to another village

America's well-being depends upon the health of those rivers and important decisions go beyond just dam-building or dam removal

XIT Christa C. Jones Most of the photographs haveThe Texas state constitution of 1876 set aside three million acres of public land in the Texas Panhandle in exchange for construction of the state's monumental red granite capitol in Austin. That land became the XIT Ranch, briefly one of the most productive cattle operations in the West. The story behind the legendary XIT Ranch, told in full in this book, is a tale of Gilded Age business and politics at the very foundation of the American cattle