Cities of Gold
480 pages, 6 x 9 1/4
1 map
Paperback
Release Date:01 Mar 1999
ISBN:9780826320865
Cities of Gold
A Journey Across the American Southwest
University of New Mexico Press
This riveting true story recounts the author's journey on horseback across Arizona and New Mexico, retracing Coronado's desperate search for the legendary Seven Cities of Gold. First published in 1992 and now available only from UNM Press, this classic adventure tale reveals the Southwest as it was when Europeans first saw it and shows how much, and how little, it has changed. "The great myth of the American West," Preston writes, "is that there was a winning of it."
Douglas Preston has written several books on the Southwest. He is also the coauthor of the novels Relic, Riptide, and Thunderhead (1999).
