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The Road West: Saga of the 35th Parallel-Bertha Dodge
(Item: 655 -THE ROAD WEST)
The Road West: Saga of the 35th Parallel-Bertha Dodge
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1980. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. B&W Photographs & Map (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Jacket condition: Near Fine, decorative cover. Original price, $15.95, unclipped. Book condition: Near Fine. Original Brown Cloth cover, with bright gilt title on spine. Pages clean and tight. Illustrated with eight pages of BW photographs and drawings, with one map of the entire region. Exact size: 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. 222 pages. This book is about those remarkable frontier pioneers -- the undistinguished, as well as the famous, including Coronado, Onate, Kit Carson and Stephen Kearney -- who moved Westward through an often inhospitable landscape. It is the absorbing drama of the opening and settling of the Southwest between 1540 and 1861. Dodge uses a broad range of diaries and official reports and incorporates illustrations of the people and places encountered in this lively and scholarly chronical of the American Southwest. Scarce. First Edition. U.S. History. Western Americana. Hardback.
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