| Caprock Canyonlands: Journeys into the Heart of the Southern Plains (M. K. Brown Range Life Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Dan Flores
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 1000753
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 212
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7 x 0.7
ISBN: 0292725051
Dewey Decimal Number: 917
EAN: 9780292725058
ASIN: 0292725051
Publication Date: 1997
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Condition: Univ of Texas softcover, 1997, unused, No marks/tears or defects...Fine (like new)...Bubble-wrapped and mailed in a Box w/delivery confirmation.
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Product Description
Caprock Canyonlands is Dan Flores' personal narrative about the canyons and badlands of the southern High Plains, which extend from eastern New Mexico and western Oklahoma south through Texas to the Concho River. Describing a series of journeys into the canyonlands, he evokes the literally millions of years that shaped the region. This stereoscopic vision, encompassing geology, mythology, botany, art, history, literature, and other studies, establishes Flores' place among America's most skilled nature writers.
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America's missing National Park -- a lament and a dream March 21, 2006
That's the driving spirit behind this wonderful book -- Texas' missing National Park.
At one time, in the early 1930s, the National Park Service was looking at a national park at least 150,000 acres, and as much as 1 million acres, for Texas' Panhandle caprock. That's right, 1 million acres -- 1,600 square miles or so.
What happened? Don't blame the Depression; the NPS bought land in Texas at the tail end of the Depression to create Big Bend.
Lack of political will and a dime-store solution on the cheap are what happened.
After helping the state of Texas create Palo Duro Canyon State Park -- around 15,000 acres, not 150,000, let alone 1 million -- the NPS simply didn't carry that through. So all we have today is Palo Duro and another dime-sized state park, Caprock Canyons (Copper Breaks is not a canyon, per se, and it's not in the Caprock).
Flores, who once had a rough-it/hippie house in Yellow House Canyon, on one of the Caprock forks of the Brazos River, knows this land intimately and personally -- including the vast majority of the Caprock still in private hands.
Read this intimate account of what many of you may be missing who haven't visited either of the two state parks in Texas' Panhandle, and for those of you who have been to Palo Duro but not explored the rest of the Caprock, see what could have been -- and what Flores dreams still could be.
very interested August 14, 2000
1 out of 11 found this review helpful
it might not be fair to comment, but i haven't read this book. nevertheless i was flying to san francisco from miami the other day and as the pilot mentioned that we just passed over texico, nm i noticed one of the most arresting sights i have ever seen from a plane. seemingly endless plains, farmed into a quilted patchwork of green squares and circles, abruptly dissolved into a brownish red fractal universe. at 34.946 north 103.438 west is one of the most striking features. you can check it out online at the terraserver or on any map program. of course they could never do justice to what it really looks like. i've been obsessing over this area for a few days now, although i hope it'll pass before i crank out bucks for yet another book i don't really need.
 Hidden treasures January 2, 2000
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Having lived in the Caprock area of Texas for a few years I never knew what history and hidden geography were just beyond the flat, flat plain across the highway! After reading this book I must return to the Caprock to discover these things on my own! There is much beyond the state parks that Texans should claim as a part of their heritage and strive to better understand. Get this book and see if you don't agree!
Deep canyons and deep thoughts-more than a geology book March 7, 1999
I paid over-due fines on this book twice at the Austin library...I wouldn't return it until I was finished. It was worth it though. Flores writes in simple terms and speaks from the heart. This book educated me while causing me to reflect on my life...Imprinted DNA from old relatives...I've believed this for years.
Deep canyons and deep thoughts-more than a geology book March 7, 1999
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I paid over-due fines on this book twice at the Austin library...I wouldn't return it until I was finished. It was worth it though. Flores writes in simple terms and speaks from the heart. This book educated me while causing me to reflect on my life...Imprinted DNA from old relatives...I've believed this for years.
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