Four Trails to Valor
by Cave, Dorothy.
Published by : Yucca Tree Press, (Las Cruces, N.M. :) Physical details: 386 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. ISBN:1881325229.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| sw 900 - 999 | 978.9050922 Cav (Browse shelf) | Available | In Memory of : Alex Mangini | 82640 |
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| 978.905 Sim Tillie : An American Life | 978.905 Smi Dateline New Mexico | 978.905 Vig Backtracks | 978.9050922 Cav Four Trails to Valor | 978.9050924 Luh Edge OF Taos Desert Vol. 4 | 978.9052 For The Preservation of the village | 978.9052 Mel Coming of age in the great depression |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 360-378) and index.
Before Memory --
The Cornmeal Path --
Beautyway --
The Way of the Cross --
Trail of Destiny --
The Drums of War --
Battling Bastards --
Action Ahead --
Slaughter on Tarawa --
The Road to Rome --
Under the Rising Sun --
Alone in the Jungle --
Uncommon Valor --
The Last Mile --
A Long, Long Trail A-Winding --
Into the Land of My Dreams.
Here are four men, representing the dominant cultures of the American Southwest, who set their feet upon trails which follow the physical and metaphysical journeys of their forefathers--the Pueblos' Cornmeal Path, the Navajo Beautyway, the Spanish Way of the Cross, and the Yankee Trail of Destiny. All lead to the great fact of the past century, World War II, in which each man blazes his own trail in his country's greatest crisis. Each carries to war his people's pride and his father's faith. Through the jungles of Bataan, the bloody battles of Tarawa and Iwo Jima, across the deserts of North Africa, and the formidable Italian mountain chain, each carries his bits of home--medicine bundle or crucifix, sacred cornmeal or pocket Bible--and each clings to the mystic thread that will bring him home. At journey's end the circle closes as each man, each race, each reader, must speculate on the untrodden paths ahead, leaving them, and us, with profound--perhaps painful--questions and a deeper understanding of man's relation to man, and to the trinity of Earth, Sky and Water.
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