Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest – Douglas Preston
Doug Preston and Walter Nelson rode cross country, not following modern
roads or trails, sleeping ‘in the saddle’ and enduring some of the harshest
deserts and roughest mountain terrain in the United States. Forced to battle
extremes of heat and cold, impenetrable mesquite thickets, bad water,
rattlesnakes, flash floods and paralyzing drought, they nonetheless found the
country awesome in its scale and beauty, with much of it so untouched that It was still recognizable from descriptions in Coronado’s reports. Their
exploration led to useful information regarding the route used by Coronado to find the Seven Cities of Gold.
Douglas Preston
Douglas Preston is a prolific American author born in 1956, best known for co-authoring the Pendergast series with Lincoln Child and for his solo works of both fiction and nonfiction. A graduate of Pomona College, he worked at the American Museum of Natural History and taught at Princeton University before becoming a full-time writer. He contributes to publications like The New Yorker and National Geographic, and is the author of numerous bestselling books, including The Lost City of the Monkey God.