Touring the Old West - Softcover

Ruth, Kent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080328926X ISBN 13: 9780803289260

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 1987

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Touring the Old West is a practical guide to what is left of the western frontier and a page-turning history for those wo can't hit the trail. In this "love letter to half of America," Kent Ruth takes the reader through twenty-one states, pointing out legendary and little-known attractions on and off the main highways.

Ruth directs today's explorer to famous old trails and landmarks, crumbling cemeteries, and original rail lines to Indian encampments and military forts (some of them restored and catering to history buffs). The tour is dotted with old-time fur trading posts, boom-and-bust mining camps, sleepy ghost towns, and near-ghosts with hotels still standing. Photographs and a state-by-state index identify authentic highlights for anybody's "out West" tour.

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Kent Ruth, former travel editor of the Daily Oklahoman, is also author of Landmarks of the West: A Guide to Historic Sites (UNP, 1986).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 080328926X
• ISBN 13: 9780803289260
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 218
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