num_pages: 222
description: From the inside front dust cover:This book is about remarkable frontier people—the undistinguished as well as the famous—who moved westward through an often inhospitable landscape. Explorers and emigrants, following the 35th parallel in their trek across the Southwest, passed by and oftentimes left their signatures on the sheer sandstone face of a New Mwxico mesa—El Morro or Inscription Rock. Behind these signatures is an absorbing drama of the opening and settling of the Southwest between 1540 and 1861. The Road West re-creates the saga of people driven by curiosity, restlessness, and ambition on their hardship-filled journey through New Mexico and Arizona.
language: English
title: The Road West: Saga of the 35th Parallel
titlecomplete: The Road West: Saga of the 35th Parallel
ratings_count: 2
publisher: University of New Mexico Press