Legacy of the Frontier: Day Trips to Historic Sites That Shaped the West

By Deborah Erickson

LEGACY OF THE FRONTIER is a distinctive historic travel guide that tracks the evolution of the Rocky Mountain West by visiting sites where courageous and adventurous men and women forged paths through this untamed and vast segment of the continent. The West is brought to life through descriptive visits, narratives, photographs and original artwork relating to four notable locations: --Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site (Colorado) --Georgetown (Colorado) --Scotts Bluff National Monument (Nebraska) --Fort Laramie National Historic Site (Wyoming) Join traders, mountain men, miners, overland pioneers, soldiers and Indians and together walk the road of western history.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1432743163
• ISBN13: 9781432743161
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"