| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2005033455 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0803213581 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780803213586 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| 022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER |
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| Source |
9780803213586 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)62493049 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
917.89670454 Boy |
| Item number |
48 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
917.89670454 Boy |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Boye, Alan |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Tales from the journey of the dead : |
| Remainder of title |
ten thousand years on an American desert |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Alan Boye. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Lincoln : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
University of Nebraska Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
c2006. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
255 p., [14] p. of plates : |
| Other physical details |
ill., map ; |
| Dimensions |
23 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes Bibliography |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Title |
List of illustrations - Traveling the Camino U.S. 380 - The wild man - Elements - Foundations - Glyph time - Artifacts - Rowena - The coming of the Ingles - The Viejo - The captains of death and the young Missouri bride - Coffee on the porch of the bar cross ranch - Valverde - The life and death of Victorio - Two writers of the purple sage - Virtual fences and real neighbors - Flo Marin puts down her monkey wrench - The georgia green story - The final walk - Joe - Acknowledgments - Notes - Bibliography |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
One hundred miles south of Albuquerque, two parallel chains of mountains isolate a 120-mile jumble of black rock, dry lake beds, flesh-colored sand, and desolation. This is the Jornada del Muerto, the Journey of the Dead. So named because of a particular death centuries ago, this desert has witnessed many tales of loss and destruction. Alan Boye takes us on a trek through the beauty and violence of this forbidding land. Traveling the wasteland by foot, Boye visits battle sites from the Mexican-American War, to the Civil War, from the lonely canyon where the Apaches fought to keep their homeland, to the isolated site of the world's first atomic explosion. In the sand and dust and the ruins of war, Boye discovers stories of sadistic killers, directionless rebels, and gun-toting gauchos-but also tales of poets and dreamers, of ordinary men and women who lived their lives and continue to live under this wide and ruthless desert sky. He introduces us to many travelers who have tested the desert: mysterious ancient people who built cliff-top fortresses, Spanish conquistadors, Mexican farmers, old time cowboys yodeling classical poetry to their cattle, and modern range managers tracking livestock by satellite. This is the story of an American desert told through the eyes of those who knew it best and brought to life through Boye's own travels across the Journey of the Dead. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Boye, Alan |
| Dates associated with a name |
1950- |
| General subdivision |
Travel |
| Geographic subdivision |
New Mexico |
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Jornada del Muerto Wilderness. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Natural history |
| Geographic subdivision |
New Mexico |
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Jornada del Muerto Wilderness. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Oral history. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Jornada del Muerto Wilderness (N.M.) |
| General subdivision |
Description and travel. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Jornada del Muerto Road (N.M.) |
| General subdivision |
Description and travel. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Jornada del Muerto Wilderness (N.M.) |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Jornada del Muerto Wilderness (N.M.) |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
sw 900 - 999 |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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