Finding the Wild West: The Southwest by Mike Cox

Finding the Wild West: The Southwest by Mike Cox

From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the Southwest states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas--one of the five-volume Finding the Wild West series--highlights the best preserved historic sites as well as ghost towns, reconstructions, museums, historical markers, statues, works of public art that tell the story of the Old West. Use this book in planning your next trip and for a storytelling overview of America's Wild West history.

Mike Cox's ancestors come from a long line of Texas ranchers. He started his full-time journalistic career in 1967 as a reporter for the San Angelo Standard-Times, then moved on to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal and the Austin American-Statesman. He joined the Texas Department of Public Safety and worked as its spokesman for fifteen years after a twenty-year career in journalism. He retired from the state in 2007, but in 2010 he came out of retirement to serve in the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's communications section. He is the author of twenty nonfiction works and is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.

He got the A.C. Award from the West Texas Book and Music Festival in 2010. For lifetime achievement, the Greene Prize is given. In the Texas hill region, he lives in Fredericksburg.

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ISBN 13	9781493064137
ISBN 10	1493064134
Title	Finding the Wild West: The Southwest
Author	Mike Cox
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Rowman & Littlefield
Year published	2022-08-01
Number of pages	320
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