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Disaster at the Colorado : Beale's wagon road and the first emigrant party /
Across north-central New Mexico and Arizona, along the line of Route 66, now Interstate 40, there first ran a little-known wagon trail called Beale's Wagon Road, after Edward F. Beale, who surveyed it for the War Department in 1857. This survey became famous for employing camels. Not so well kn...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Logan :
Utah State University Press,
©2002.
©2002 |
| Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Across north-central New Mexico and Arizona, along the line of Route 66, now Interstate 40, there first ran a little-known wagon trail called Beale's Wagon Road, after Edward F. Beale, who surveyed it for the War Department in 1857. This survey became famous for employing camels. Not so well known is the fate of the first emigrants who the next year attempted to follow its tracks. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 216 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780874214611 0874214610 9786613266873 6613266876 0874214386 9780874214383 |