Jornada del Muerto. A Pageant of the Desert.

Spokane, Washington: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1989 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 750 copies. 219pp. Frontispiece map. Notes, bibliography, index. Brown cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. "The Jornada de Muerto was a stretch of road, a shortcut actually, on the Camino Real from New Spain to Santa Fe. Ninety miles long, it parallels the Rio Grande River in southern New Mexico. The book chronicles the area from the days of the Spaniards to the atomic age - White Sands Test Range lies on its eastern edge" (Clark). Volume XV of the Western Lands and Waters Series. [Clark and Brunet I: 54; Clark and Brunet II: 62]..