Stewart Aitchison is the author of A Traveler's Guide to Monument Valley; Grand Canyon: Window of Time; and Red Rock Sacred Mountain: The Canyons and Peaks from Sedona to Flagstaff. He is a longtime resident and guide in the Southwest.
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Contents List of Illustrations viPreface viiAcknowledgments ixDisclaimer xi ~ Chapter 1 ~Impossible Journey 1 ~ Chapter 2 ~The Call: December 1878 to March 1879 3 ~ Chapter 3 ~The Exploration: April 14 to Mid-September 1879 6 ~ Chapter 4 ~The Wagon Train Begins: Mid-October to November 1879 18 ~ Chapter 5 ~To the Brink: November 1879 to January 25, 1880 31 ~ Chapter 6 ~Down the Hole and Beyond: January 26 to April 1880 48 ~ Chapter 7 ~"We Thank Thee": March 28 to April 6, 1880 65 ~ Chapter 8 ~Bluff City: Since April 6, 1880, in Brief 72 Appendixes 75 Bibliography 84
"[This book] serves as a useful guide to the American West's most arduous emigrant road carved through a strikingly scenic, convoluted landscape. It also serves as a handy reference for anyone wishing to know the story of the trail."--Steven K. Madsen, coauthor of In Search of the Spanish Trail: Santa Fe to Los Angeles, 1829-1848