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).
"A lot of oldtime adventure boiled down into one interesting volume."—Boston Globe (Boston Globe )
"Touring the Old West is flavored with personal experiences, fascinating glimpses of history, and the delightful Kent Ruth humor."—Sunday Oklahoman (Sunday Oklahoman )
"Ruth's book on the old West should whet any dude's appetite for the last frontier of the nineteenth century."—Fort Wayne News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne News-Sentinel )
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Hard cover. Condition: Very good in good dust jacket. vi, 218 p. illus., maps. 24 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Maps. Bibliography: p. 209-211. No previous owner's name HC 198. Seller Inventory # Alibris.0026247
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Hardcover. Blue cloth, silver lettering on spine, no dj, lightly rubbed, flap pasted inside. The West; 12800. Seller Inventory # 12800
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Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 56735130-75
Seller: Granada Bookstore, IOBA, Woodlawn, IL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. No Edition Or Printing Stated. Includes Bibliographical References, Index By States And General Index. Map Endpapers. Bound In Blue Cloth Over Boards With Gilt Lettering On The Spine. Short Gift Inscription (In Pencil) On The Ffep. A Small Stain On The Lower Page Edges. The Unclipped Jacket ($6.95) Is Worn And Has Chips And Tears. Seller Inventory # 050974
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. No Edition Or Printing Stated. Brown Area On The Front Endpapers Due To Newspaper Article Laid In. No Ownership Marks Or Writing. The Jacket Has A Few Tiny Chips And Short Tears. Seller Inventory # 020882
Seller: North Slope Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. Robert MacLean (illustrator). First Edition. FIRST EDITION in blue cloth, endpaper maps, maps and drawings by Robert MacLean, illustrations, maps, biblio., index by states followed by general index, 218pp. Very Good+ (owner gift reference on half-title page). Several Custer and Little Big Horn references + many others from the Old West. Seller Inventory # 7146
Seller: Smokey Mountain Bookman, Franklin, NC, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Kent, Ruth. Touring the Old West. Maps and Drawings by Robert MacLean. Brattleboro, Vermont: The Stephen Green Press (1971). Probable firstedition. (No additional printings noted.) 218pp, index, illustrations and maps integral, 8vo. Map endpapers, gilt spine lettering, blue cloth.Deaccessioned, minor residue front endpapers and two tape stains on upper cover else quite good. Seller Inventory # W251
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