San Francisco Peaks and Flagstaff Through the Lens of Time

WINNER: New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards for Arizona History and Large-Format Cover Design

"Faithfully documented repeat photographs provide the context that helps us understand our beautiful and challenged mountain landscape."-Peter Z. Fulé, Regents' Professor of Forestry, Northern Arizona University

In this eye-catching visual essay celebrating the San Francisco Peaks and Flagstaff, watch more than 150 years unfold in over one hundred historical photographs and drawings precisely paired with their modern-day counterparts.

Ecologist, educator, and writer John L. Vankat reveals the telling details that bring the past alive. The result is an invitation to time-travel, appealing to anyone interested in nature, culture, or history.

The storied San Francisco Peaks remain a touchstone of beauty and emotion despite more than a century of change. Vankat gives us a chance to see and celebrate this special place as it was, to understand it today--and to consider what its past and present say about the future of the American West.

"Engaging, historically revealing, and scientifically sound, this book sets the standard for documenting long-term regional landscape changes." -William Wallace Covington, Emeritus Regents' Professor, School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University