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San Juan Skyway

Title
San Juan Skyway / Frederic B. Wildfang.
Author
Wildfang, Frederic B.
Publication
Charleston SC : Arcadia Pub., ©2010.

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Description
127 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.
Summary
The "scenic route" in southwestern Colorado means the San Juan Skyway, a 236-mile loop created by U.S. Routes 550 and 160 and State Routes 62 and 145. The Skyway wends through glacial valleys and over high passes between some of the most breathtaking, ice-sculpted peaks in the Rocky Mountains. Native Americans, pioneering mountain men, miners, and railroaders inhabited these slopes. Although the Skyway towns of Durango, Silverton, Ouray, Ridgway, Telluride, Rico, Dolores, and Cortez were first connected by wilderness trails and railways, the loop's final modern section of highway between Coal Bank and Molas Passes was completed in the 1940s. The rugged San Juan Mountains were the backdrop for exploits by Butch Cassidy and Wyatt Earp, but, as author Frederic B. Wildfang notes, the scenery is also "a syllabus for a course in geology."
Series Statement
Images of America
Uniform Title
Images of America.
Subject
  • Manners and customs
  • San Juan Skyway (Colo.) > History > Pictorial works
  • San Juan Mountains Region (Colo. and N.M.) > History > Pictorial works
  • San Juan Mountains Region (Colo. and N.M.) > Social life and customs > Pictorial works
  • Colorado > San Juan Skyway
  • United States > San Juan Mountains Region
Genre/Form
  • Nonfiction.
  • illustrated books.
  • Illustrated works
  • History
  • Pictorial works
  • Illustrated works.
  • Ouvrages illustrés.
Contents
Durango to Silverton -- Silverton to Ouray -- Ouray to Telluride -- Telluride to Cortez -- Cortez to Durango -- Historic skyway accommodations.
ISBN
  • 9780738580289
  • 0738580287
LCCN
2009935206
OCLC
  • ocn515399327
  • 515399327
  • SCSB-9421695
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library