Disaster at the Colorado: Beale's wagon road and the first emigrant party
Date
2002
Authors
Baley, Charles W., author
Utah State University Press, publisher
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Abstract
Across north-central New Mexico and Arizona, along the line of Route 66, now Interstate 40, there first ran a little-known wagon trail called Beale's Wagon Road, after Edward F. Beale, who surveyed it for the War Department in 1857. This survey became famous for employing camels. Not so well known is the fate of the first emigrants who the next year attempted to follow its tracks.
Description
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rights Access
Access is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.
Subject
Mohave Indians -- Arizona -- History -- 19th century
Mohave Indians -- Wars
Beale Road -- History
Southwest, New -- Description and travel
Arizona -- History -- To 1912
Beale, Edward Fitzgerald, 1822-1893