Author: Harold Austin SteinerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780961451714
Category : Mojave Desert
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Old Spanish Trail Across the Mojave Desert
Author: Harold Austin SteinerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780961451714
Category : Mojave Desert
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Old Spanish Trail
Author: Leroy R. HafenPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803272613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This classic history is filled with colorful pathmarkers like Jedediah Smith, John C. Främont, and Kit Carson; with packers, home seekers, and mail couriers; and with horse thieves and enslavers of Indian women and children.
The Old Spanish Trail
Author: Ralph ComptonPublisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN: 142990318X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
An extraordinary saga of the trail-blazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the great frontier. Hard-riding Texans were braving mountains, desert and Indian war-- for the promise of a golden land called California... Over one million copies of Ralph Compton's Trail Drive novels in print! Missouri was closed to Texas cattle. Santa Fe was closed by murder. Now, they had one choice: cross desert mountains and hostile Indian land-- to a place called California... The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn, and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph, Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-blazing trail drives. For the ranchers riding with Rand Hayes, things had gone from bad to worse. The Santa Fe man who'd contracted five thousand head of cattle was dead-- murdered by renegades. Now the Texans had a herd of longhorns and only one choice: cross two mountain ranges and the Mojave Desert to the gold-fevered market at Los Angeles. A trail blazed by ancient Spaniards, this was a route that would lead through a brutal, wondrous land, where a hostile Ute nation was only one danger the cattle drive faced, and California was a shooting war away...
Overland with Kit Carson
Author: George Douglas BrewertonPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787209024
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Gold had just been discovered in California at the close of the Mexican War when Kit Carson started east from Los Angeles with dispatches. Going with him was Lieutenant George Douglas Brewerton, who describes their journey over the Old Spanish Trail. It was a torturous route across deserts and mountains requiring the kind of expert survival skills that made Kit Carson famous. The scout, who was carrying the news that would begin the rush for gold, went as far as Taos, where he was reunited with his wife. From there Brewerton joined a wagon train that labored over the Santa Fé Trail to Independence, Missouri. Overland with Kit Carson is a colorful and authentic account of encounters with Indians and white adventurers and of the hazards and hardships that accompanied anyone who undertook such a long journey in a sparsely populated country. “Of prime importance to many general readers as well as to historians will be Brewerton’s intimate and concrete pictures of Kit Carson.”—Southwest Review.
Old Spanish Trail
Author: LeRoy Reuben HafenPublisher: Glendale, Calif. : A. H. Clark Company
ISBN:
Category : Mormon Road
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Mojave Desert Trails
Author: Florine LawlorPublisher: Spotted Dog Press
ISBN: 1893343227
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Mojave Desert Trails explores some of the most interesting historic and geological sites in the Mojave Desert. Ecologically and environmentally diverse, the Mojave Desert encompasses a dramatic and enchanting landscape of ancient volcanic cinder cones, Joshua tree forests, sand dunes and rugged mountains. Weather in the Mojave changes as dramatically as its terrain: triple digits from late spring to early fall with winter temps often dropping below freezing. A wet winter, with both rain and snow, will prepare the Mojave Desert for a spectacular display of spring flowers.
Pilgrims in the Desert
Author: Le HayesPublisher: Mojave Historical Society
ISBN: 9780918614162
Category : Baker (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Archaeology of the Old Spanish Trail/Mormon Road from Las Vegas, Nevada to the California Border
Author: Keith MyhrerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology and history
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Mojave Road
Author: Dennis G. CasebierPublisher:
ISBN: 9780914224044
Category : Mohave Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Presents a history of the Mojave Road, originally an Indian trail, from the first explorations in the 1820s to its years as a wagon road in the 1870s and 80s, focusing on that portion of the road from the California Desert to the Colorado River.
The Old Spanish Trail
Author: Arlan DeanPublisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9780823964802
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Describes the Old Spanish Trail and the pioneers who settled in California.