Author: Philip Varney
Publisher: Arizona Highways Books
ISBN: 9780916179441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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A guide to ghost towns and abandoned mining camps in Arizona includes historical photographs, a color portfolio, regional maps, descriptions, and directions to each site.
Author: James E. Sherman
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806108438
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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A pictorial survey of the past history of more than one hundred former mining towns in Arizona
Author: Kathryn Ferguson
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816528547
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Over the past ten years, more than 4,000 people have died while crossing the Arizona desert to find jobs, join families, or start new lives. Other migrants tell of the corpses they pass—bodies that are never recovered or counted. Crossing With the Virgin collects stories heard from migrants about these treacherous treks—firsthand accounts told to volunteers for the Samaritans, a humanitarian group that seeks to prevent such unnecessary deaths by providing these travelers with medical aid, water, and food. Other books have dealt with border crossing; this is the first to share stories of immigrant suffering at its worst told by migrants encountered on desert trails. The Samaritans write about their encounters to show what takes place on a daily basis along the border: confrontations with Border Patrol agents at checkpoints reminiscent of wartime; children who die in their parents’ desperate bid to reunite families; migrants terrorized by bandits; and hovering ghost-like above nearly every crossing, the ever-present threat of death. These thirty-nine stories are about the migrants, but they also tell how each individual author became involved with this work. As such, they offer not only a window into the migrants’ plight but also a look at the challenges faced by volunteers in sometimes compromising situations—and at their own humanizing process. Crossing With the Virgin raises important questions about underlying assumptions and basic operations of border enforcement, helping readers see past political positions to view migrants as human beings. It will touch your heart as surely as it reassures you that there are people who still care about their fellow man.
Author: Betty Leavengood
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 0871089769
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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This rich, enthusiastic guide to the Tucson, Rincon, Santa Catalina, and Santa Rita Mountains has been completely revised. Betty Leavengood’s fourth edition of her bestselling Tucson Hiking Guide offers new routes and updated access information, detailed maps, and clear descriptions to area trailheads. This latest edition includes thirty-seven hikes rated easy to difficult by mountain range; revised information on precautions for desert hiking; historical notes, photographs, and anecdotes; and detailed maps and descriptions with elevation/distance.
Author: Susan Tatterson
Publisher: America Through Time
ISBN: 9781634990882
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Cleator -- Phoenix Trotting Park -- Chloride -- Black Canyon City Dog Track -- Route 66 Trading Posts -- Vulture Mine -- The Drover's Shed -- Two Guns -- Ruby -- The Domes.
Author: Peter Massey
Publisher: Adler Publishing
ISBN: 9781930193017
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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This field guide includes meticulous trail details for 44 offroad routes located near the towns of Phoenix, Wickenburg, Quartzsite (south), Payson, Superior, Globe and Yuma (north). NEW, full COLOR addition to our Trails series! These handy 6x9? books include scenic drives plus a whole lot more! Including some of America's best mountain biking, hiking, camping and fishing areas! Ghost towns galore? Step back into the past while wandering through abandoned mining areas, old buildings, and even entire towns. INCLUDES GPS coordinates throughout each book.
Author: Peter Massey
Publisher: Adler Publishing
ISBN: 9781930193000
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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This volume consists of comprehensive statistics and descriptions for 33 trails located near the towns of Bullhead City, Lake Havasu City, Parker, Kingman, Prescott (west), and Quartzsite (north). NEW, full COLOR addition to our Trails series! These handy 6x9? books include scenic drives plus a whole lot more! Including some of America's best mountain biking, hiking, camping and fishing areas! Ghost towns galore? Step back into the past while wandering through abandoned mining areas, old buildings, and even entire towns. INCLUDES GPS coordinates throughout each book.
Author: Richard K. Mangum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hiking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Peter Massey
Publisher: Adler Publishing
ISBN: 1930193289
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 579
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Beautifully crafted, high quality, sewn, 4 color guidebook. Part of a multiple book series of books on travel through America's beautiful and historic backcountry. Directions and maps to 2,671 miles of the state's most remote and scenic back roads ? from the lowlands of the Yuma Desert to the high plains of the Kaibab Plateau. Trail history is colorized through the accounts of Indian warriors like Cochise and Geronimo; trail blazers; and the famous lawman Wyatt Earp. Includes wildlife information and photographs to help readers identify the great variety of native birds, plants, and animal they are likely to see. Contains 157 trails, 576 pages, and 524 photos (both color and historic).
Author: Peter Massey
Publisher: Adler Publishing
ISBN: 9781930193024
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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This handy 6 x 9 guidebook is a new, full color volume that navigates 1153 miles of backcountry trails in Northeast Utah, near the towns of Vernal, Logan, Salt Lake City, Price, Wendover, Beaver, and Milford. See ghost towns, old mines and mill workings, old railroads and stage lines along the 35 off-road trails. Directions include GPS coordinates and all trails are rated for difficulty, mileage, driving time, remoteness and more. Descriptions highlight places to camp, hike, mountain bike, fish, and sightsee. Histories recount the days of the Wild West.
