Boulevarded Old Trails in the Great Southwest
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780548031124
Subjects: United States - South - West South Central (General); Travel / United States / South / West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX); Travel - United States
First sentence: IN The Oregon Trail Francis Parkman says that as they rode by the foot of Pike's Peak (in 1846), when for a fortnight they met no face of man, his companion remarked: "A time will come when those plains will be a grazing country, the buffalo will give place to tame cattle, farm-houses will be scattered along the water-courses, and wolves, bears and Indians will be numbered among the things that were."