The Great North Trail: America's Route of the Ages (The American Trails Series).

New York:: McGraw-Hill, 1966.. 1st Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: turquoise cloth; the turquoise color is reflected in the title page, the frontis map, and the color tint to the jacket art; and the rear endpapers; the front endpapers are a different shade and match the background color for the jacket; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 9.25 inches tall) . Sources, index. Description: Dust jacket design by James Craig. Includes a double page map frontis, plus a few smaller maps in the text. This is the eighth volume in the American Trails Series, under the general editorship of A B Guthrie Jr. For 200 million years land existed between Siberia and Alaska. Animals and men came to America and wandered southward, along the Rockies, and into Mexico and South America. This route is called the Great North Trail, and has played an essential part in the development of this continent. The author briefly covers the archaeological history, then embarks along the Trail with the fabulous Spaniard, Cabeza de Vaca, and Coronado's expedition of 1540. Mr Cushman also recounts the French and English fur trade, and the continuing story through the gold and cattle days of the nineteenth century, including the Klondike Gold Rush.