Scott Thybony Books

Spanning more than 14,000 yaers of human history, America's Ancient Cities reveals how settlements evolved and how urban centers grew and functioned.

Includes the famous Grand Canyon, the sun-scarred deserts, and the alpine meadows of the state, along with its people and their lifestyles.

More than four million people visit the Grand Canyon National Park every year, but most visitors choose not to stray beyond the heavily visited trails or to venture below the Canyon's rims. The rim trails and the routes to the inner canyon offer solitude and expose beauty vastly different from what can be seeing from the developed areas of the Rims. This edition of the Official Guide to Hiking Grand Canyon provides an overview of all the park's major trails, with notations about difficulty levels, conditions, water sources, distances from point to point and elevation gain and losses.

Provides a description of how different tribes made their now iconic dwellings, how they used them historically, why they were so important to the culture of the Plains tribes, and how people still use tipis today. Illustrations and photographs in this handy and concise booklet help you understand the refined simplicity of these structures.