Russ Leadabrand (1920–1994)
Auteur de Exploring California byways II, in and around Los Angeles: Trips for a day or a weekend
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Œuvres de Russ Leadabrand
Exploring California byways II, in and around Los Angeles: Trips for a day or a weekend (1968) 24 exemplaires
A guidebook to the San Bernardino Mountains of California, including Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear (1964) 13 exemplaires
A guidebook to the Mojave Desert of California, including Death Valley, Joshua Tree National Monument, and the Antelope… (1966) 12 exemplaires
Exploring California folklore: The San Joaquin Valley, the mountains, the coast, and the desert (1972) 5 exemplaires
Guidebook to the mountains of San Diego and Orange Counties, including the Santa Ana Mountains, the Palomar country,… (1971) 4 exemplaires
Guidebook to the Southern Sierra Nevada Copy 3 3 exemplaires
Exploring California Byways Vii - An Historic Sketchbook Trips for a Day or a Weekend (1973) 1 exemplaire
Mani's magic 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Leadabrand, Russ
- Nom légal
- Leadabrand, Russell Albert
- Autres noms
- Leadabrand, Russell A.
- Date de naissance
- 1920-09-02
- Date de décès
- 1994-12-19
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Illinois, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Cambria, California, USA
- Études
- Columbia University
University of New Mexico
University of Southern California - Professions
- journalist
historian - Organisations
- Pasadena Star-News
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Critiques
Guidebook to the Mojave Desert of California par Russ Leadabrand
Sprinkled with vintage photos of visitors, mining, military, and industry, this historic summary of development and communities with short lives -- cut off by highways or railroads, and the collapse of mining, there are plenty of ghostly stops described in this guidebook.
The Mojave, Great Basin, and Colorado deserts in California are a sort of "arrowhead" with the point north of Death Valley National Monument, and the widest part where it stretches from Needles to the western Antelope Valley. This volume takes you on 12 trips, stretching from the border with Mexico and the Anza Borrego Desert State Park to the mountains east of the Sierra Nevada, and west of Death Valley. The trips were first published in Westways, the publication of the Automobile Club of Southern California.… (plus d'informations)
Ten trips, from Indian villages in San Diego County to the redwoods on the north Coast, and the gold mining areas scoured by the '49 ers, California history is the star of the series. To find it, you need to leave the main roads and hit the byways.
Eight "trips for a day or a weekend" are described for Owens Valley, east of Mt. Whitney. The emphasis is on finding historic artifacts, ghost towns, using carefully written route descriptions, to get you to the locale. Histories are interspersed with local legends of "curb size" veins of gold. The trips were originally published in Westways, the monthly magazine of the Automobile Club of Southern California.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 24
- Membres
- 181
- Popularité
- #119,336
- Évaluation
- 3.0
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 12