Boulevarded Old Trails In The Great Southwest
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: August 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781417938773
Subjects: TRAVEL & HOLIDAY; Travel - United States; Travel; Central Southern states; United States - South - West South Central (General)
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."