Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press The high desert of the Owyhee Mountain region has a history rich in native conflicts, settlers braving its harsh deserts, miners searching for fortune in its rugged mountains and boomtowns springing up and then crashing down as the mines dried up.

Mike Quigley has been exploring the Owyhee Canyonlands since 1975. Bonnie Olin joined him in 1993 and began keeping a personal record of their journeys together. Her journals, combined with Mike's 125 full color photographs of rarely seen landscapes, allow the readers to take a vicarious journey of their own, into the canyonlands of the Owyhee River in Nevada, Idaho and Oregon. Photos include the East Fork, South Fork, Main Stem and Lower Owyhee, as well as West Little Owyhee, Deep Creek, and Dickshooter Creek (Black Canyon).

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press About 10,000 people inhabit this high desert area, geographically larger than the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Owyhees contain some fo the most specatcular and pristine canyonlands in the United States. A nationally-recognized outdoor photographer, Mark Lisk's photographs of the Owyhee, presented with essays by people who love the region, bring the rugged beauty of this Idaho and Oregon region to life.