Touring the Old West
Language: English
Published by University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE, 1986
- Softcover
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Seller: Trench Books, Hudson, ME, U.S.A.Trench Books
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Pencil inscription on back of half title page, otherwise a superb copy, clean and unmarked. A guide to all kinds of old west attractions that are off the beaten path. Illus with numerous B&W photos and sketches.
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- Title
- Touring the Old West
- Author
- Kent Ruth
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE
- Publication year
- 1986
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 080328926X
- ISBN 13
- 9780803289260
- Illustrator
- Robert MacLean
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Seller catalogs
- History, Western Americana
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.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Kent Ruth, former travel editor of the Daily Oklahoman, is also author of Landmarks of the West: A Guide to Historic Sites (UNP, 1986).
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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