Jack D. Rittenhouse
Auteur de A Guide Book to Highway 66
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Œuvres de Jack D. Rittenhouse
American horse-drawn vehicles,: Being a collection of two hundred and eighteen pictures showing one hundred and… (1948) 41 exemplaires
The man who owned too much; Maxwell's land grant. Together with an 1895 newspaper account of the life of Lucien Maxwell (1958) 3 exemplaires
New Mexico Civil War bibliography, 1861-1865; an annotated checklist of books & pamphlets 2 exemplaires
Disturnells Treaty Map: The Map that was Part of the Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty on Southwestern Boundaries, 1848. 1 exemplaire
Outlaw days at Cabezon, New Mexico 1 exemplaire
Disturnell's Treaty Map 1 exemplaire
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- Nom légal
- Rittenhouse, Jack DeVere
- Date de naissance
- 1912
- Sexe
- male
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- Œuvres
- 15
- Membres
- 170
- Popularité
- #125,474
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 6
Roads are simultaneously about freedom and connection—the freedom of journeying from one far off place to another, and the almost tangible connection between the two. The Santa Fe Trail, being America's first great highway, is the epitome of this idea. It was the first of three main corridors to the American West, an open country that exists mostly in legend now, and the village of Santa Fe itself earned its near-mythical status as the end point connecting the burgeoning American frontier to Mexico.
I've read and recommend David Dary's comprehensive The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends, and Lore, and this shorter book by Jack Rittenhouse is a quick, satisfying summary. I recommend it as an introduction to the subject.… (plus d'informations)