Legends of the American Desert
Subtitle: Sojourns in the Greater Southwest
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: September 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780060977696
Subjects: Travel writing; Travel; Travel - General; USA; Essays & Travelogues; General; United States - West - Mountain (General); Travel / General
First sentence: A few days before the Fourth of July 1980, forty-three Salvadorans fleeing the crossfire of their country's civil war toward a vague, mouthwatering picture of America received from television, glossy magazines, and their Mexican arranger arrived at a funky little outpost on the Arizona border called San Luis Rio Colorado.