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Author: Richard G. Waller Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781973752417 Category : Languages : en Pages : 96
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In 2014 and 2015 the author with several other riders from the Backcountry Horsemen of America re rode the Old Spanish Trail from San Bernardino California to Santa Fe New Mexico. This is their story, and a guide to the route as done by the riders. The Old Spanish Trail is today, America's longest National Park, The Old Spanish National Historic Trail. The volunteers of the Old Spanish Trail Association along with other members of the Backcountry Horsemen of America assisted the riders. This guide is set up as a day by day account. Bicyclists, hikers and vehicle users can use it to plan day trips, section trips, or the entire 1200 mile trail.
Author: Richard G. Waller Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781973752417 Category : Languages : en Pages : 96
Book Description
In 2014 and 2015 the author with several other riders from the Backcountry Horsemen of America re rode the Old Spanish Trail from San Bernardino California to Santa Fe New Mexico. This is their story, and a guide to the route as done by the riders. The Old Spanish Trail is today, America's longest National Park, The Old Spanish National Historic Trail. The volunteers of the Old Spanish Trail Association along with other members of the Backcountry Horsemen of America assisted the riders. This guide is set up as a day by day account. Bicyclists, hikers and vehicle users can use it to plan day trips, section trips, or the entire 1200 mile trail.
Author: Ron Kessler Publisher: ISBN: 9780964405615 Category : Frontier and pioneer life Languages : en Pages : 148
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President of the newly founded Old Spanish Trail (OST) National Association, Kessler states, "The OST may be the most important trail of all. Perhaps neither the Santa Fe nor the Oregon Trails would have developed had the means of transportation not been made available. It was the horse & mule trade on the OST that brought these animals from California to Missouri to facilitate the settling of the West." The OST wove through six states, linking Santa Fe, NM to Los Angeles, CA. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell has noted the trail's importance by promoting (in 1995) a bill to designate the OST as a National Trail. This traveler's guidebook gives an exciting & detailed look at this lesser-known portion of the OST. RETRACING will specify highways that parallel the OST & visit sites where wagon ruts are still visible. Stories & legends abound with many suggestions for "things-to-see!" Whether a weekend or an extended outing is planned, RETRACING can help fill every moment. To order contact: Adobe Village Press, P.O. Box 510, Monte Vista, CO 81144. 719-852-5225.
Author: Leroy R. Hafen Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803272613 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 390
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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.
Author: George A. Thompson Publisher: ISBN: 9780914740315 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Old Spanish Trail was a pathway with but one purpose: to lead followers to the legendary land of Cibola and its immeasurable treasures of silver and gold. Lost Treasures of the Spanish Trail takes readers through the history of the trail and its surrounding lands, from the arrival of Spanish conquistadors and the treasures of Montezuma, through its expansion northward, to the traces of the trail that can still be found today, worn deeply into soft sandstone, perhaps still leading to the hidden treasures that inspire legends.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Publisher: ISBN: Category : Old Spanish Trail Languages : en Pages : 8
Author: Robert Hurst Publisher: Yawn Publishing LLC ISBN: 1954617046 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 96
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The Mission Road: “And lo! A light from Heaven shown down, And I beheld through the briars The Mission Road of the Franciscan friars.” Early on the morning, April 6, 2013 while visiting the old Suwannee River crossing at Charles Spring, I saw this beam from the heavens shining as if to mark the trail for me. This digital image, entitled “Photograph of the Bellamy Road, Charles Spring, which is thought to be a part of the Old Spanish Trail,” was placed in the Viva Florida 500 statewide time capsule and was sealed in the R. A. Gray Building, Tallahassee on December 31, 2013. It will be opened on Mar. 3, 2095. The state of Florida is entering some significant anniversaries in its history. The year 2013 ushered in Viva Florida 500, a state effort to celebrate and promote the Spanish discovery of Florida and 500 years of Spanish influence upon it. The year 2015 marked the 450th birthday of St. Augustine, the oldest continuously occupied city in the United States. Consequently there has been a renewed interest in the most famous road in the state’s history. Yes, Florida can boast as having the oldest city, but perhaps it also has the oldest road, for almost from the inception of St. Ausustine, inroads into the hinterland ensued. It is surprising that Florida’s royal road, El Camino Real, has never been accurately defined until now. Many have heard of the Old Spanish Trail, but have misleading ideas of its use and course. Often times, it is confused with the trail of the same name out West. Some think it extended from St. Augustine to Mexico, and, perhaps, the greatest error, is to associate it with U. S. Highway 90. Robert Hurst takes the reader on a 465 mile journey through the eyes of early Spaniards and others across the marshes, swamps, rivers, natural bridges, and highlands of Florida from St. Augustine to Pensacola. He describes the methods of ferrying men, cargo and horses across the many rivers encountered. The reader will travel in the footsteps of Spaniards, English and American soldiers. He will experience the hardships of river crossings and encounter the various tribes of Native Americans, their villages and the Catholic missions along the way. He will experience the tired traveler’s joy upon reaching the many remarkable springs along the trail. In short, this book is about the struggle of man and beast to penetrate the wild, untamed Florida wilderness of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The reader will discover the course and experience what travel was like along the real Old Spanish Trail. Accompanying the text are appendices, photographs and maps. In the appendices, the reader will discover driving roads and hiking trails that replicate the experience of travel on this most famous and historic trail. The photographs illustrate the pristine parts of the existing trail, and the early and contemporary maps enable the reader to actually visit parts of the old trail. This is a book that will not only interest the reader with historical and archaeological interests, but also the outdoor adventurer and the Florida heritage\ecotourist. The publication of this work is long overdue. Florida’s oldest, most famous, and longest road has not received the attention it deserves. It is the author’s hope that the attention this book will receive will help save what is left of one of Florida’s most important heritage sites.
Author: Richard G. Waller
Author: Richard G. Waller
Author: Ron Kessler
Author: William Buck
Author: Leroy R. Hafen
Author: Harold Austin Steiner
Author: George A. Thompson
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Author: Keith Myhrer
Author: Robert Hurst
Author: Ruth Friesen