Seven Trails West

Seven Trails West
Title Seven Trails West PDF eBook
Author Arthur King Peters
Publisher Abbeville Press
Pages 0
Release 2000
Genre Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN 9780789206787

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Major routes that linked the country to the Far West are explored by Peters, including the trail blazed by Lewis and Clark, the Santa Fe Trail, and others. Illustrations.

Rail-Trails West

Rail-Trails West
Title Rail-Trails West PDF eBook
Author Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
Publisher Wilderness Press
Pages 202
Release 2009-06-01
Genre Travel
ISBN 0899974899

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In this newest edition in the popular series, the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy presents the best of the West. With 70 rural, suburban, and urban trails threading through 1,050 miles, Rail-Trails West covers 60 trails in California, eight in Arizona, and two in Nevada. Many rail-trails offer escapes from city life, like the Mount Lowe Railway Trail, high above the buzzing Los Angeles basin on a rail line vacationers once took to a mountaintop resort. Others offer the pure sensory thrill of sweeping terrain, like Arizona's 7-mile Prescott Peavine Trail. Still more juxtapose the natural world with the railroad's industrial past, like Nevada's Historic Railroad Hiking Trail, which passes through five massive tunnels to reach Hoover Dam. Every trip has a detailed map, directions to the trailhead, and information about parking, restroom facilities, and other amenities. Many of the level rail-trails are suitable for walking, jogging, bicycling, inline skating, wheelchairs, and horses.

The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail
Title The Oregon Trail PDF eBook
Author Rinker Buck
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 464
Release 2015-06-30
Genre History
ISBN 1451659164

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A new American journey.

The Old Trails West

The Old Trails West
Title The Old Trails West PDF eBook
Author Ralph Moody
Publisher New York : T.Y. Crowell Company
Pages 344
Release 1963
Genre Overland journeys to the Pacific
ISBN

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Located in Southwest Collection.

Deep Trails in the Old West

Deep Trails in the Old West
Title Deep Trails in the Old West PDF eBook
Author Frank Clifford
Publisher University of Oklahoma Press
Pages 370
Release 2012-09-24
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0806187506

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Cowboy and drifter Frank Clifford lived a lot of lives—and raised a lot of hell—in the first quarter of his life. The number of times he changed his name—Clifford being just one of them—suggests that he often traveled just steps ahead of the law. During the 1870s and 1880s his restless spirit led him all over the Southwest, crossing the paths of many of the era’s most notorious characters, most notably Clay Allison and Billy the Kid. More than just an entertaining and informative narrative of his Wild West adventures, Clifford’s memoir also paints a picture of how ranchers and ordinary folk lived, worked, and stayed alive during those tumultuous years. Written in 1940 and edited and annotated by Frederick Nolan, Deep Trails in the Old West is likely one of the last eyewitness histories of the old West ever to be discovered. As Frank Clifford, the author rode with outlaw Clay Allison’s Colfax County vigilantes, traveled with Charlie Siringo, cowboyed on the Bell Ranch, contended with Apaches, and mined for gold in Hillsboro. In 1880 he was one of the Panhandle cowboys sent into New Mexico to recover cattle stolen by Billy the Kid and his compañeros—and in the process he got to know the Kid dangerously well. In unveiling this work, Nolan faithfully preserves Clifford’s own words, providing helpful annotation without censoring either the author’s strong opinions or his racial biases. For all its roughness, Deep Trails in the Old West is a rich resource of frontier lore, customs, and manners, told by a man who saw the Old West at its wildest—and lived to tell the tale.

Trails Plowed Under

Trails Plowed Under
Title Trails Plowed Under PDF eBook
Author Charles M. Russell
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 262
Release 1996-06-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780803289611

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"Russell writes easily, and in the vernacular. He tells of Indians and Indian fighters, buffalo hunts, bad men, wolves, wild horses, tough hotels, drinking customs, and hard-riding cowboys. . . . [He] lived long enough in the West to acquire a vast amount of information and lore, and he has left enough from his brush to prove his place as a sound interpreter of a stirring period and a fascinating country".-New York Times. "Russell was the greatest painter who ever painted a range man, a range cow, a range horse, or a Plains Indian. He savvied the cow, the grass, the blizzard, the drought, the wolf, the young puncher in love with his own shadow, the old waddie remembering rides and thirsts of far away and long ago. He was a wonderful storyteller. . . . His subjects were warm with life, whether awake or asleep, at a particular instant, under particular conditions. Trails Plowed Under, prodigally illustrated, is a collection of yarns and ancedotes saturated with humor and humanity".-J. Frank Dobie, Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest. Brian W. Dippie is a professor of history at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and the author of Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage (Nebraska 1990).

Trails West

Trails West
Title Trails West PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 216
Release 1979
Genre Travel
ISBN

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Includes chapters on the Santa Fe Trail, the Oregon Trail, the Mormon Trail, the California Trail, the Gila Trail, and the Boseman Trail.