(Library ebook) Death Valley (Images of America: California)
♥ Robert P. Palazzo ♥
| #1921067 in Books | Arcadia Publishing | 2008-09-15 | 2008-09-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.31 x6.50l,.70 | File Name: 0738558249 | 128 pages |
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| See Death Valley as it used to be.|By Terry M.|This is a picture book covering the commercial heydays of Death Valley from about 1870 to 1940. The photos all have extended captions that bring to life the people and places of the region. It is well organized and the photos were well selected. It is also fun to read!
If you want help visualizing the past and unders|About the Author|Robert P. Palazzo, Death Valley scholar and lifetime member of the area’s natural history association, evokes here in vintage imagery a stark, barren, desolate wasteland that gradually became one of the West’s most iconic destinatio
Death Valley, its harsh and rugged landscape established a national monument in 1933 and named a national park in 1994, has long held a fascination for visitors, even before it became tourist friendly. Shortly after the first visit of nonnative inhabitants, a party of forty-niners looking for a shortcut to the goldfields of California crossed this land with tragic results, inadvertently giving the valley its moniker. Despite the immense suffering in their midst, prospec...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Death Valley (Images of America: California) | Robert P. Palazzo. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
