The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America. The Desert States.
Title | The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America. The Desert States. PDF eBook |
Author | Roger G. Kennedy |
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Pages | |
Release | 1990-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783884721742 |
THE SMITHSONIAN GUIDE TO HISTORIC AMERICA, THE DESERT STATES.
Title | THE SMITHSONIAN GUIDE TO HISTORIC AMERICA, THE DESERT STATES. PDF eBook |
Author | Michael S. Durham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 445 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Deserts-U.S. |
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The Desert States
Title | The Desert States PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Schelling Durham |
Publisher | Stewart, Tabori, & Chang |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
An exquisitely illustrated (color photos, chiefly) guide to Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. The best photos are of geological phenomena; but, since this is a guide to historic America, the text describes human interaction. Gives the desert area the "once- over-lightly" and lacks a bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Smithsonian guide to historic America
Title | The Smithsonian guide to historic America PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Historic sites |
ISBN |
The Desert States: New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah.
Smithsonian Guide to the Desert States
Title | Smithsonian Guide to the Desert States PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Durham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 1998 |
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The Plains States
Title | The Plains States PDF eBook |
Author | Suzanne Winckler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 632 |
Release | 1998-03-15 |
Genre | Travel |
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A comprehensive and illustrated guide to the historic places of America. There are descriptions of historic towns, cities, buildings and natural wonders. Also included are details of how common people lived, how fortunes were made, significant characters and America's art and literature. The books in the series are organized for easy reference, with entries arranged geographically and maps provided.
Desert Between the Mountains
Title | Desert Between the Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Michael S. Durham |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780806131863 |
On July 24, 1847, a band of Mormon pioneers who had crossed the Great Plains and hauled their wagons over the Rocky Mountains descended into the Salt Lake valley. They settled alongside the Indians there in an immense, self-contained region covering more than 220,000 square miles aptly named the Great Basin because its lakes and rivers have no outlet to the sea. Within ten years of their arrival, the Mormons had established nineteen communities extending all the way to San Diego, California. But theirs was not a story of splendid isolation. The Mormon way of life was under a constant strain from interactions with miners, solders, explorers, mountain men, Indians, the Pony Express, railroad builders, federal officials, and an assortment of other "Gentiles." This is the definitive, dramatic, and multifaceted study of the Great Basin, unifying its history with its geography.