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Join National Geographic on a trip through American history. Retrace the route 18th-century Spanish explorers took as they fought their way from Mexico to what is now San Francisco, or follow in the footsteps of Freedom Riders as they walked with Martin Luther King, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery in the 1960s. The fourteen national historic trails chronicled in these pages echo with famous names and extraordinary adventure—Lewis and Clark, the Pony Express, the sad exile of the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears—each represents a chapter of the past. Highlighted by breathtaking and evocative modern photographs as well as historical images and illustrations, detailed maps, travel information, and more, this beautiful book retraces the trails that... Tovább

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AMERICA'S HISTORIC TRAILS

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Tivo hones in Wyoming—Pony Express Trail
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Mission San Xavier del Bac—Juan Bautista Trail Cherokee masks suspended in hut—Trail of Tears
Join National Geographic on a trip through American history. Retrace the route 18th-century Spanish explorers took as they fought their way from Mexico to what is now San Francisco, or follow in the footsteps of Freedom Riders as they walked with Martin Luther King, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery in the 1960s. The fourteen national historic trails chronicled in these pages echo with famous names and extraordinary adventure—Lewis and Clark, the Pony Express, the sad exile of the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears—each represents a chapter of the past. Highlighted by breathtaking and evocative modern photographs as well as historical images and illustrations, detailed maps, travel information, and more, this beautiful book retraces the trails that led, step by determined step, mile by arduous mile, to the America we know today. '
ISBN 0-7922-8030-X
978079228030990000
AMERICA'S HISTORIC TRAILS
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The FOURTEEN DESIGNATED national historic trails wind through the American landscape—and through our country's history. Many, like the Mexico to San Francisco Juan Bautista de Anza Trail, span miles and miles and have been in use for centuries. Yet one trail, Selma to Montgomery, is just 54 miles long and scarcely four decades old. Regardless of the trail's length or age, each has a vivid, vital story to tell—of hopes and dreams, of tragedies and triumphs, and above all, of the indomitable spirit that helped create America.
On the Overmountain Victory Trail, we meet the up-country patriots from Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina who drove the British from the southern colonies. On the California Trail, we join forty-niners rushing west to strike it rich in the goldfields. Along the Pony Express Trail we cheer the heroic, hell-for-leather mail riders who crossed mountains, deserts, and plains in record time. We gaze at 150-year-old ruts made by the covered wagons rumbling along the ^ Oregon Trail, and shudder at the remote,
pristine beauty of the Rocky Mountain meadows where the Donner Party suffered and died in the
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Within these pages is the sad tale of the Trail of Tears, the sorrowful route of the Cherokee Nation and their Indian allies, exiled from their homeland and sent west to the Indian Territor>'. There is also the desperate yet stirring story of the Nez Perce, evading the U.S. Cavalry in one last bid for freedom on a vanishing frontier. . miP> L^av^i Filled with Stunning contemporary photographs period illustrations, fascinadng facts and . ^remarkable tales, as well as useful information • for travelers, America's Historic Trails is at once a ; wonderful, colorful gallery of our nation's y heritage, and a chronicle of the courage, y, ambition, and accomplishment that built our country. Visit these national trails that weave from coast to coast, echoing the stories of America's spirit and history.
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