Roadside New Mexico: A Guide to Historic Markers | 
 enlarge | Author: David Pike
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 440
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Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 6.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 0826331181
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.890454
EAN: 9780826331182
ASIN: 0826331181
Publication Date: August 15, 2004
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Product Description
The people, geological features, and historic events that have made New Mexico what it is today are commemorated in over 350 historic markers along the states roads. This guide, arranged geographically, beginning with the Four Corners region, is designed to fill in the gaps and answer the questions those markers provoke, offering the additional information that the interested traveler is sure to want.Geological and scenic markers for the Rio Grande, the Colorado Plateau, and such uniquely New Mexican features as the Jornada del Muerto and the Valles Caldera explicate the states physical landscape. The presence of early human inhabitants is marked at Blackwater Draw, the Gila Cliff Dwellings, and Aztec and Salmon ruins, among other spots. Most pueblos and tribes have markers, and the early incursions of the Spanish are commemorated as well as Spanish and Mexican settlement patterns. The American occupation is marked at forts, battlefields, and survey points. Missions, trails, ghost towns, battle sites, settlements, and outlaws are all represented with markers, as are such symbols of New Mexico as the Santa Fe Opera and Smokey the Bear.
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A good book to travel New Mexico with October 1, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book contains all but the very newest of New Mexico's historical roadside markers. Each section addresses an area of New Mexico and features a map and a cool old photograph. Each little chapter begins with the text of a specific sign, and then goes on to explain more about the historical background in detail. Usually there are photos included.
I've kept this book in my bathroom for the last several months, and aside from the skipping around I've done with the book while travelling, I've also been reading it straight through. And it's good that way.
If the book has any faults, it's that the author's style at times seems to be very similar to the style of the signs whose information he's expounding on. Also, because the entries are generally only a page or two or three long, there are sometimes more things that I'm left wanting to know. And finally, the author takes a very family-friendly tone--which is good if you're friendly, and have family, but not if you want to know about the cutting, knife-barbed belt the hermit of the Organ Mountains was wearing when he was found murdered, or if you want details on the whores of Old West-era New Mexico.
Overall though, I really like this book. Keep this and Robert Julyan's "The Place Names of New Mexico" in your car on your next New Mexico roadtrip, and before too long all your friends and family will hate you and wish you'd stayed home.
Seriously, they might.
Or--as is often the case--they might learn something...and you might too.
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