For more than four decades James Stoness has travelled the roads
of North America, photographing and writing about what he has seen.
His travel articles and beautiful pictures have been published in
several magazines and newspapers. He is also the author of five
western novels.
In the “Touring North America” scenic tour series, James
brings a new concept in Scenic Travel Books. The premise that several
Minitours can be created so they interlink, makes it possible for
the potential traveller to chain several Minitours together to make
a longer trip. The maps, coloured photographs, and descriptions
help you plan your trip, and enjoy your progress along the route.
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44 Minitours
48 Minitour maps
22 Park maps
160 Full colour photographs
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The purpose of this book is to provide information on several of
the scenic and enjoyable roads that are found in the central and
southwestern areas of the United States. The information includes
both popular areas and lesser known attractions.
A Minitour map precedes each route. Some Minitour maps have areas
which have been expanded to show the detail better. While some of
the routes loop back to a beginning point, most of them meander
over areas of particular beauty or interest.
To use this guidebook, use the outline map to select areas of interest,
and read the Minitours about those areas. Then string together those
Minitours which are of most use to you.
There is information on parks, roads that are particularly scenic,
hiking trails, campsites, and fascinating tidbits of geology that
can help you to understand how some of this interesting scenery
came to be.
Jim Stoness
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...Pictures
often portrays the wagons all travelling in single file,
stretched out for miles. In fact, often they went two,
three and four abreast, in lines as short as possible.
The arrangement helped keep down the dust, and they could
quickly form into protective circles if attacked. In places
where wagon ruts are still visible you are sometimes able
to make out the four sets of tracks and there are references
in this Minitour to some places where the ruts are deep
enough for you to see them. Where it was flat and easy
going each wagon likely picked out the smoothest piece
of land to drive on....
Chapter One, Minitour 1,
The Santa Fe Trail, Pg. 3
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...Fort Stockton had a fort to protect people from Indian attacks
in 1859. Here you will see a statue of a 22-foot long roadrunner.
These elusive birds are often observed running across the highway
and vanishing into the underbrush. This one would be hard to miss!
Leaving the town, you climb slowly over the Glass Mountains, reaching
4700 feet. As you descend, your southern view is filled with a rugged
assembly of brown mountains that make up Big Bend NP.
The climb over the Santiago Mountains and through Persimmon Gap
into the park follows a route that people have travelled for hundreds
of years...
Chapter Four, Minitour 42,
Gainesville to Big Bend NP, Pg. 214
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Xavier Mission. This beautiful building dates from the late 1700’s.
Two towers grace the building’s front, but only one was totally
completed. The missionaries selected this region to build their
mission for the Papago Indians. Here the river’s waters sometimes
reach the surface, or close enough to it that it was possible
for the Indians to live. Generally the river appears dry while
its waters ooze through the sands below the surface...
Chapter Three, Minitour 30
Lordsburg to Picacho Peak
via Tombstone, Pg. 157
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The book comes on CD-ROM and can be read from CD or installed
on your computer for easy reviewing.
Get this wonderful book in one small package that plays
on any computer equipped with a CD drive.
For more information call 1-866-642-2343.
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