| Description |
315 pages : illustrations, color map ; 24 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
The American trails series |
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American trails series (McGraw-Hill Book Company)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-302) and index. |
| Contents |
Seaside route -- Pathfinders of New Spain -- The mission trail -- El Camino Real -- Road of war -- The gold rush -- The highwaymen -- The coast stages -- The tourist wave -- Gasoline alley west -- U.S. 101 -- Dead-end -- Freeway -- The royal road. |
| Summary |
The "story of the great road known as El Camino Real, the King's Highway, and as the California Mission Trail, and of the people who traveled it in its hundreds of years-Indians, priests, cutthroats, gold hunters, gamblers, and gay caballeros." |
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El Camino Real (Calif.)
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California -- History.
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California. (OCoLC)fst01204928
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California -- El Camino Real.
(OCoLC)fst01255613
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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