Secure Tales From The Journey Of The Dead: Ten Thousand Years On An American Desert Developed By Alan Boye Edition

Jornada del Muerto is a vertical strip of desert taking up most of south central New Mexico, Under Spanish and Mexican rule, the road through this desert was known as the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road to the Interior Lands, sitelinkAlan Boye in sitelinkTales from the Journey of the Dead takes a historical look at this desert road, from Clovis and Folsom man some,years ago, through to the Civil War the Battle of Valverde was faught here, through the Apaches under Victorio, through Billy the Kid, all the way to the first nuclear teste at the Trinity Site and the governments battles between the ranchers and the government regarding the White Sands Missile Range.


Howe's book is well written and contains detailed notes and an excellent bibliography, One hundred miles south of Albuquerque, two parallel chains of mountains isolate amile jumble of black rock, dry lake beds, fleshcolored sand, and desolation, This

is the Jornada del Muerto, the Journey of the Dead, So named because of a particular death centuries ago, this desert has witnessed many tales of loss and destruction, Alan Boye takes us on a trek through the beauty and violence of this forbidding land, Traveling the wasteland by foot, Boye visits battle sites from the MexicanAmerican War, to the Civil War, from the lonely canyon where the Apaches fought to keep their homeland, to the isolated site of the worlds first atomic explosion.
In the sand and dust and the ruins of war, Boye discovers stories of sadistic killers, directionless rebels, and guntoting gauchosbut also tales of poets and dreamers, of ordinary men and women who lived their lives and continue to live under this wide and ruthless desert sky.
He introduces us to many travelers who have tested the desert: mysterious ancient people who built clifftop fortresses, Spanish conquistadors, Mexican farmers, old time cowboys yodeling classical poetry to their cattle, and modern range managers tracking livestock by satellite.
This is the story of an American desert told through the eyes of those who knew it best and brought to life through Boyes own travels across the Journey of the Dead.
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