Old Forty-Four
Subtitle: a historical and geological excursion over New Mexico's old Route 44 (now part of US-550)
By: by Dirk Van Hart
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Santa Fe
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780865348370
Subjects: Roads; History; Local History; Geology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Some Essential Geologic Vocabulary and Concepts; title: History of Highways in Northwestern New Mexico; title: The Amazing American Land System; title: Bernalillo; title: Our Point of Origin; title: Bernalillo; title: Select Places of Interest; title: Rio Jemez Corridor; title: Rio Salado Pass; title: Rio Salado Anticline; title: Middle Rio Puerco Valley; title: Twisted Saga of the Ojo del Espiritu Santo Land Grant; title: Forgotten Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camps; title: On to La Ventana; title: On to Cuba; title: The Bone War and the Missing K-T Boundary; title: Cuba; title: Midpoint on US-550; title: An Evolving Cuba; title: Cuba Today; title: Up into the "Inner" San Juan Basin; title: San Juan Basin Vegetation; title: Counselor and the "Upper" Canyon Largo; title: Side Journey down the Canyon Largo; title: Lybrook; title: Indian Country I; title: the Jicarilla Apache Nation (Tinde); title: Indian Country II; title: the Navajo Nation (Dine Bikeyah); title: Side-Journey down to Chaco Canyon; title: Musings about Chaco Canyon; title: Badlands to the Chaco Dune Field; title: Along the Chacoan Great North Road; title: Mormon Settlers, Cattle Companies, Trading Posts, and Kutz Canyon; title: Indian Water Rights-the Essentials; title: Development of Landscape beyond the "Lybrook Gate"; title: Bloomfield; title: End of Our Excursion; title: Epilogue.