★★★★☆ | Travel and Nature | Print | Own | StoryGraph | Goodreads
A wonderful introduction to the wildlife and history of Southern Arizona from the state’s most famous poet. This book helped me pass through some awful periods of grief as I healed on our patio underneath the very same desert sun that Shelton loved so much.
Wildlife: Colorado River Frogs can paralyze dogs if they bite or lick(!), Jumping Cholla, the unique desert smell of greasewood brush after a summer rain.
Lisa and I will definitely follow his footsteps to Bisbee some day soon. I only wish he hadn’t recently passed away. I would have loved to hear him speak at a reading.