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The Southwest - Gold, God & Grandeur (National Geographic)
The Southwest Gold God Grandeur - National Geographic Author:Paul Robert Walker A dramatic, challenging world that combines breathtaking beauty with a fascinating and colorful past, the Southwest boasts some of America's most magnificent country - the Sonoran desert, the Grand Canyon, and Monument Valley, to name only three - as well as much of our very oldest history; for despite its dry climate, its parched land has been ... more »inhabited for many thousands of years. As this lavishly illustrated volume explores every nook of the region in George H.H. Huey's masterly photographs, Paul Robert Walker presents a fascinating chronicle that traces its fabulous history, from the era of the Spanish conquistadores to the Texas Rebellion and the Mexican War, from the Wild West to the birth of the Atomic Age at Los Alamos.« less