| High Road to Taos Contributor(s): Butler, Mike (Author) |
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ISBN: 146711605X ISBN-13: 9781467116053 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx) - Travel | Food, Lodging & Transportation - Road Travel - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials) |
| Dewey: 978.953 |
| LCCN: 2015952318 |
| Series: Images of America |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.5" W x 9.1" (0.70 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The High Road to Taos, listed in the New Mexico Register of Cultural Properties in 1975, covers 52 miles from just north of Santa Fe to Ranchos de Taos at the southern boundary of the town of Taos. In addition to spectacular mountain scenery, the High Road contains Pueblo Indian settlements dating back to the 1300s and Hispanic settlements dating back to the 1600s. Historic adobe Catholic churches can be seen in each village, with the church at Las Trampas having been constructed in 1760. Today, artist communities have grown in and around the villages. Photographers from the federal Farm Security Administration extensively photographed the villages along the High Road in the 1930s and 1940s. These photographs provide an exceptional record of Hispanic village life in northern New Mexico and will be of interest to travelers along the High Road as a basis of comparison to what they are viewing today. |
Contributor Bio(s): Butler, Mike: - Author Mike Butler has included some 200 of these photographs from the Library of Congress collection. Butler's other books for Arcadia's Images of America series include Around the Spanish Peaks, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Littleton, and Southern Colorado: O.T. Davis Collection. |