Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest

Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest

This new ebook edition of Cities of Gold includes for very first time over 100 never-before-published photographs taken during the authorâ€™s epic, thousand mile horseback journey across Arizona and New Mexico. It also includes many rare and extraordinary historical photographs of the Old West, Native Americans, pioneers, prospectors, Indian pueblos, and vanished landscapes.

â€œThe Old Westâ€™s last glimmers flicker through this piercingly beautiful adventure, an unforgettable saga in which Preston, astride his horse Popeye, traverses the desert and mountain wilderness of Arizona and New Mexico retracing the trail-blazing 1540-41 expedition of Spanish Explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado in search of the legendary Seven Cities of Gold â€¦ In place of the mythical winning of the West, Preston unfolds a harrowing tale of loss.â€ â€“ Publishers Weekly

â€œThe entire book is a sheer pleasure to read.â€ â€“ The San Diego Union-Tribune

â€œA Blue Highways on horseback, well worth the trip.â€ â€“ Kirkus Reviews

â€œA riveting yarn, with as many turns as a switchback road.â€ â€“ The Christian Science Monitor

â€œA fearful, fascinating tale.â€ â€“ Los Angeles Times

â€œA journey of historical importance.â€ â€“ The New York Times

â€œBy setting out with a companion and four horses to track Coronadoâ€™s army across a thousand miles of brutal desert and mountain country, from the Mexican border through Arizona and New Mexico, the author is ready to risk his life to try to see with his own eyes, as it were, â€˜that moment, 450 years ago, when the peoples of the Old World and New World first encountered each otherâ€™ and quickly began the strife-torn redefining of America. Throughout the book, Preston intersperses the original reports and memoirs of Coronadoâ€™s adventure with accounts of his own partyâ€™s hard progress, making the centuries dissolve into a common, first-person, present-tense narrative. And along the way he records stories of the people and places he encounters, making brief excursions into mining booms and busts, the history of livestock ranching, the impact of barbed wire and windmills, the first mail routes, homesteading, the destruction of the Indian nations, and much more.â€ â€“ Smithsonian Magazine

Douglas Preston is a journalist and author who has published twenty-six books, nonfiction and fiction, several of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers. In addition to Cities of Gold he is the author of several books on Southwestern history, including Talking to the Ground and The Royal Road. Preston is the co-creator, with Lincoln Child, of the Pendergast series of novels, including Relic and The Cabinet of Curiositiesâ€”both of which were named in a National Public Radio listener poll as being among the 100 greatest suspense novels ever written. Prestonâ€™s most recent nonfiction book, The Monster of Florence, is being made into a movie starring George Clooney. Preston also writes for the New Yorker magazine, the Atlantic and Smithsonian, and he taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. He divides his time between Maine and New Mexico.

Country	USA
Author	Douglas Preston
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780786755660
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Argo-Navis
Manufacturer	Argo-Navis
NumberOfPages	690
PublicationDate	2016-01-15
Publisher	Argo-Navis
ReleaseDate	2016-01-15
Studio	Argo-Navis

Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest

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