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ARIZONA DAILY STAR 1984 Edward Abbey NOVELS

• “The Monkey Wrench Gang,” by Edward Abbey • “Yes is Better than No,” by Byrd Baylor • “The Circus of Dr. Lao,” by Charles G. Finney • “The Bean Trees,”by Barbara Kingsolver • “The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint,” by Brady Udall TUCSON CITIZEN — Selected by librarian “Lilies of the Field” was shot at Old Tucson Studios in late 1962. and books expert W.David Laird; Bruce Dinges,editor, The Journal of Arizona History; and Bobbie Jo Buel MOVIES MADE NON- FICTION IN ARIZONA

• “The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in O'odham Country,”by Gary Paul Nabhan “LILIES OF THE FIELD” “BROKEN ARROW” • “A Gift of Angels: The Art of Sidney Poitier won the best-actor Oscar Based on a novel by Tucsonan Elliott Mission San Xavier del Bac,” by for this 1963 film made in Tucson. He plays a Arnold, this film portrayed Native Ameri- Bernard L. Fontana handyman forced to stop at a desert farm run cans more sympathetically than movies had • “Arizona: A History,” by by German refugee nuns when his car over- before. Released in 1950, it was filmed in Oak Thomas E. Sheridan heats.He stays to build the ladies a chapel. CreekCanyon, Old Tucson, Flagstaff and • “Going Back to Bisbee,” by Sedona. Richard Shelton “STAGECOACH” • “Beyond the Hundredth stars as the outlaw Ringo in “TOMBSTONE” Meridian: John Wesley Powell this 1939 made by Oscar-nominat- Starring , Val Kilmer, Sam El- and the Second Opening of the ed director John Ford in Monument Valley. liott and others, the movie was filmed at West,”by Wallace Stegner Mescal and released in 1993. The famous “RED RIVER” shootout takes place about halfway through — Selected by book lovers,in- Wayne plays a borderline sadist cattle the film, which deals with politics and the ARIZONA DAILY STAR cluding librarian W.David Laird baron on the first cattle drive over the law. Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp in the 1993 and Bruce Dinges,editor,The Chisholm Trail from San Antonio to Abilene. film “Tombstone.” Journal of Arizona History. The movie was filmed at Elgin in 1946. — Selected by Star staff