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42) Travel New Mexico scenic and historic byways: a travel guidebook to New Mexico roads of distinction
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ix, 78 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
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English
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xi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, Hartman reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African-American history. The slave, Hartman observes, is a stranger, one torn from family,...
48) Catfish alley
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519 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Roxanne Reeves defines her life by the committees she heads and the social status she cultivates. But she is keeping secrets that make her an outsider in her own town, always in search of acceptance. And when she's given a job none of the other white women want - researching the town's African-American history for a tour of local sites - she feels she can't say no. And elderly Grace Clark, a retired black schoolteacher, agrees to become her guide....
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359 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 23 cm
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English
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The original U.S. Route 66 was 2,448 miles long, and 90 percent of it can still be driven today. Antonson set out to follow that original route, tracing its rich history and discovering the vitality and American character sill beating through our heartland.
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xii, 335 pages : maps ; 23 cm
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English
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"Forged from Native American pathways, the Camino Real de los Tejas and its variants became an important transportation corridor during the Spanish colonial period of Texas. Following the explorations of Alonso de León, between 1686 and 1690, Spanish missionaries and soldiers began the earliest European settlements in Texas. Mexican territorial and early Anglo-American period immigrants to Texas also contributed much information about its people,...
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xv, 302 pages : maps ; 23 cm
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English
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"From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the Southwest states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas--one of the five-volume Finding the Wild West series--highlights the best...
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287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Organized state-by-state then province-by-province, 50 States, 5,000 Ideas showcases the best travel experiences in every state and province, from the obvious to the unexpected. Sights include national parks, beaches, hotels, Civil War battlefields, dude ranches, out-of-the-way museums, and the list goes on and on. You'll discover the world's longest yard sale in Tennessee; swamp tours in Louisiana; dinosaur trails in Colorado; America's oldest street...
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