Roadside History of Arizona

For some, history is a reflection of times past and the actions of those who came before. For others, history provides a link in the chain of human experience, a window through which we see how we got from yesterday to today.The Roadside History series fits both descriptions, charting a course to the present through carefully selected and thoroughly researched stories that relate what we see today with what happened before. Through vivid anecdotes, old photographs, and maps, the Roadside History guides provide entertaining insight into the states they describe.Each state is divided into geographical (and historical) regions, and each region is described in the context of highways that pass through it. This "road log" approach helps place modern travelers in the past.Take a grand tour along the highways of one of America's last frontiers. Trimble includes legends, lost-treasure stories, ghost towns, and interesting place names as he weaves a colorful tapestry of stories about Arizona.