His last book on the country he spent thirty years in. Half is the archaeology and his own walking — the Cedar Mesa sites, Grand Gulch, the panels, the places he keeps returning to. The other half is the history of how this ground got fought over: Cattle, uranium, pothunting families, the 2009 raids, five tribes proposing a monument, Obama designating it, Trump cutting it by 85 percent. He knows most of the people on every side and doesn’t flatten any of them, and he was dying while he wrote it.
The Bears Ears