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xvi, 363 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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A portrait of the Standard Oil heiress and legendary American trendsetter Millicent Rogers. Nobody knew how to live the high life like Millicent Rogers. Born into luxury, she lived in a whirl of beautiful homes, European vacations, exquisite clothing and handsome men. Here, Cherie Burns chronicles Rogers's glittering life from her days as a young girl afflicted with rheumatic fever to her Taos finale. A rebellious icon of the age, she eloped with...
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American trails volume 25
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279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Dr. Rowland Willard traveled from St. Charles, Missouri, to Taos, New Mexico, in 1825, where he spent three months before moving on to Chihuahua, Mexico, where he practiced medicine for three years before returning to the United States. He kept trail diaries for his travels and later wrote an autobiography based on his recollections and diaries. Dr. Willard thus became only the third traveler to keep an account of traveling the Santa Fe Trail from...
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xii, 388 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
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English
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" Eanger Irving Couse (1866-1936) showed remarkable promise as a young art student. His lifelong interest in Native American cultures also started at an early age, inspired by encounters with Chippewa Indians living near his hometown, Saginaw, Michigan. After studying in Europe, Couse began spending summers in New Mexico, where in 1915 he helped found the famous Taos Society of Artists, serving as its first president and playing a major role in its...
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544 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 21 cm
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English
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Helps travelers plan road trips across the United States from wine country in the Northwest and Route 66 to New Mexico's Trail of the Ancients and the Blue Ridge Parkway with expert tips, epic sites and good eats.
266) Unpregnant
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Veronica never thought she'd want to fail a test-that is until she finds herself staring at a piece of plastic with a blue plus. With a promising college-bound future now disappearing before her eyes, Veronica considers a decision she never imagined she'd have to make. This never-taken-lightly decision leads her on a 1000-mile hilarious road trip to New Mexico over three days with her ex-best friend, Bailey where they discover sometimes...
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329 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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John Brandi's selection of writings over the last four decades opens with his awakening to landscape and poetry during his upbringing in California, his counterculture years in the Sixties, and his Peace Corps work with indigenous farmers in the Andes. Essays on his multiple visits to India, Sikkim and Nepal, with vivid descriptions of Khajuraho's erotic temples, the ritual dances of Kerala, the monasteries of the Himalaya, move from the physical...
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290 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
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English
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"The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists...
269) Born in the Rockies
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1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The Rocky Mountains are the second largest mountain range on Earth, stretching some 2,000 miles from central New Mexico to the northern edge of Canada. Journey deep into the wild heart of the Rocky Mountains and experience this rugged land as never seen before, through the eyes of its iconic wildlife.
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208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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English
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Hinckley is perhaps the most internationally recognized authority on the subject of America's Main Street. This collection offers you the stories behind Route 66 icons such as Baxter Springs and Tucumcari, Meramec Caverns, Arroyo Seco Byway, Berghoff's and the Oatman Hotel, Munger Moss and Wigwam Motel, and dozens more. Hinckley also treats you to a fresh look at lesser known but deserving attractions too. At nearly a century old, Route 66 remains...
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viii, 323 pages : maps ; 25 cm
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English
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On the eve of turning thirty, terrified of being sucked into a life he didn't choose, Jedidiah Jenkins quit his dream job and spent the next sixteen months cycling from Oregon to Patagonia. He chronicled the trip on Instagram, where his photos and reflections on life soon attracted hundreds of thousands of followers and got him featured by National Geographic and The Paris Review. Jed now narrates the adventure that started it all: the people and...
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