...a valuable resource about Historic Markers along New Mexico Highways...

The people, geological features and historic events making New Mexico what it is today are commemorated in over 350 historic markers along the state's roads. This guide fills in gaps and answers questions those markers provoke, with added information the interested traveler is sure to want. To use this book is to acquire the history of the state in bite-size increments.

Geological and scenic markers for Rio Grande, Colorado Plateau and uniquely New Mexican features such as Jornada del Muerto and Wagon Mound explicate the state's physical landscape. The presence of early human inhabitants is marked at Blackwater Draw, Gila Cliff Dwellings and Aztec and Salmon ruins, among others. Most pueblos and tribes have markers and early incursions of Spaniards are commemorated. Spanish and Mexican settlement patents are marked. The American occupation is marked at forts, battlefields and survey points. Missions, trails, ghost towns, oil wells and outlaws are all represented with markers, as are such symbols of New Mexico as the Santa Fe Opera and Smokey Bear.

Published by University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, available at most book stores including Wal-Marts, online at amazon.com and others. Paperback, 434 pages with index, 7" by 10".

New Mexico Wanderings

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