Description
Museum of New Mexico Press [Published date: 1980], A Centennial Edition. Soft covers, 128 pp.
Rare, out-of-print & unusual books · Since 1997
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Condition & notes
In very good condition. Illustrated paper covers have light bumping to edges and corners and light overall scuffing with a bit of the color scuffed off along the edges. Printed price on back cover blacked out with black pen. Binding tight (NO spine crease). Pages crisp clean and bright with no markings. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations. [From back cover] One Hundred Years ago, no other American road could offer so many attractions to the tourist as the Denver and Rio Grande Railway. Today, no other book can offer you so much of the world intact in all its nostalgic splendor! Much has been written about the history and lore of that endangered species, passenger railroad travel. But here is an exceedingly rare and unusual find: a book originally published one hundred years ago when railroading was part of the Great American Adventure, conquering the raw lands at the end of the track. This Centennial Edition of Health Wealth and Pleasure in New Mexico and Colorado, a facsimile reprint containing all fifty original engravings, brings you back to a world of extraordinary natural beauty. To read it today is to rediscover and explore the grand scenery of the Rocky Mountains, from the Queen City of the Plains to the narrow lanes of old Santa Fe. "Health and pleasure" seekers will take great delight in crossing the stupendous Toltec Gorge, reaching the dizzy heights of Chama summit, or stopping at celebrated Ojo Caliente Hot Springs. The tracks reach the very edge of the timberline, surrounded by peaks that hold the snows of winter through the middle of the summer. Indian petroglyphs can be seen from the car window, along streams filled with mountain trout, or through secluded canyons, lurking places for the cinnamon bear and the mountain lion. Whether you read it for pleasure or for its historical merit, this antique gem will also take you to the heart of some of the most exciting gold fever country in the history of the West. And like it did a hundred years ago, this book will help the reader "escape the fierce struggles and intense mental strains of modern civilization." Moreover, for railroad buffs and historians, it will be a treasured collector's item.