“This is one of my favorite books and very different from Preston's fictional work. It tells the story of a journey Preston made, with a cowboy buddy, to retrace the portion of Coronado's 1540-42 expedition from the Arizona-Mexico border to Pecos, New Mexico. The story is told on three levels: the two traveler's actual adventures across an often forbidding wilderness; a recitation of the Coronado expedition's memoirs of passing through the same terrain; and an exposition of some of the contemporary issues of the American Southwest, including land use and water rights. Some of the last may be a bit dated now, but this is both an exciting and informative read.”
seachase22 wrote this review Wednesday, August 15 2007.
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