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Pub. Date
1945
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The amazing true story of America's most famed lost gold mines and epitome of Western traditions, this book tells the tale about the Lost Dutchman gold mine in the Superstition Mountains in Arizona during the late 1930s and 1940s.Based on author Barry Storm's travels over the mountains in search for lost Spanish treasures, this book was the inspiration behind Lust for Gold, a 1949 American western film about the legendary Lost Dutchman, starring Glenn...
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Drawing on his exploration of the area for more than three decades, Wilkinson (law, U. of Colorado-Boulder) examines a number of historical events and continuing issues relating to the redrock countryside and Indian societies of the Colorado Plateau, which stretches across the states forming the Four Corners. Maps detail the various localities he describes.
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Pub. Date
1986
Description
The "Roadside History" series charts a course to the present through carefully selected and thoroughly researched stories relating what we see today with what happened before. Through vivid anecdotes, old photographs, and maps, the "Roadside History" guides provide entertaining insight into the states they describe.Each state is divided into geographical and historical regions, and each region is described in the context of highways that pass through...
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Pub. Date
©1997
Description
Carved from cliffs and canyons, buried in desert rock and sand are pieces of the ancient past that beckon thousands of visitors every year to the American Southwest. Whether Montezuma Castle or a chunk of pottery, these traces of prehistory also bring archaeologists from all over the world, and their work gives us fresh insight and information on an almost day-to-day basis.
Descriptions of long-ago people are balanced with tales about the archaeologists...
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Pub. Date
©1999
Description
The Colorado River and its deeply entrenched canyons create a lengthy barrier to travel in the interior West. From the mid-19th until the mid 20th century, one of the few places between California and Nevada where wheeled vehicles could cross it was at the mouth of the Pahreah River, between Glen Canyon and the river's steep drop toward Grand Canyon. Lee's Ferry was a primary link between Utah and Arizona. Mormons looking for new lands for colonization...
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