Jack D. Rittenhouse
Autor de A Guide Book to Highway 66
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Jack D. Rittenhouse
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Rittenhouse, Jack DeVere
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1912
- Género
- male
Miembros
Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 15
- Miembros
- 170
- Popularidad
- #125,474
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 6
Roads are simultaneously about freedom and connection—the freedom of journeying from one far off place to another, and the almost tangible connection between the two. The Santa Fe Trail, being America's first great highway, is the epitome of this idea. It was the first of three main corridors to the American West, an open country that exists mostly in legend now, and the village of Santa Fe itself earned its near-mythical status as the end point connecting the burgeoning American frontier to Mexico.
I've read and recommend David Dary's comprehensive The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends, and Lore, and this shorter book by Jack Rittenhouse is a quick, satisfying summary. I recommend it as an introduction to the subject.… (más)