Author
Alan H. Patera's Western Places books include maps and photographs
to enable today's explorer (as well as armchair travelers)
to enjoy a visit. Ghost towns, mining, postal history and
Western settlement are richly featured. In a detailed history
of events that occurred there, he explains why the place came
to exist and its historical significance in the American West.
Patera offers an appreciation of the conditions pioneer settlers
endured, and gives an interpretation of what one finds there
today. |
