The Institute Bookshelf is not your ordinary selection of titles. In an effort to present living present history in its many facets, especially in our southwest, a curious mixture of interests present themselves.
Browsers are always welcome and the coffee fresh.
Mail order, phone order and order via e-mail are also welcome anytime. All income from bookstore sales goes toward Institute operations - the Institute has no paid employees. Everyone associated with The Institute are full-time volunteers. In order to understand our western culture, heritage, and people, a person must first understand, at least to some degree, the complexities and patterns of background that make up the West and southwest then and now. From ancient times to the present, the West has seen one transformation and migration of peoples after another, but the land itself has changed little.