Old Forty-Four - Hart, Dirk van
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This reader-friendly exploration along what was once New Mexico State Highway 44, now redesignated the southern part of federal highway US-550, melds both the human and geologic history along the major transportation corridor connecting the Rio Grande Valley in central New Mexico with the San Juan River Valley in the far northwestern part of the state. Numerous illustrations portray the region's geology in a form intelligible and interesting to the non-geologist. The basic understanding of the landscape thus provides the scaffolding to support the stories of the interesting people who figure…mehr

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This reader-friendly exploration along what was once New Mexico State Highway 44, now redesignated the southern part of federal highway US-550, melds both the human and geologic history along the major transportation corridor connecting the Rio Grande Valley in central New Mexico with the San Juan River Valley in the far northwestern part of the state. Numerous illustrations portray the region's geology in a form intelligible and interesting to the non-geologist. The basic understanding of the landscape thus provides the scaffolding to support the stories of the interesting people who figure in the history along "Old 44." The book aims to provide a view of the highway and its environs in an entirely new way and to make history and geology seem a natural and necessary pairing. DIRK VAN HART earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in geology, and in 1965 began a professional career as a petroleum geologist. During the next two decades the gypsy life of the geologist took him to Oklahoma, Texas, California, Guatemala, and Ecuador. In 1986 a career change led him to move his family to Albuquerque, New Mexico where he engaged in contract geological projects in Italy and Belize, and for a short while taught high-school science. In 1994 he joined a team effort to characterize the geology of Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque as a contractor for Sandia National Laboratories. He is now retired.
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Dirk Van Hart earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in geology, and in 1965 began his professional career as a petroleum geologist. During the next two decades a gypsy life led him and his family to residences in Oklahoma, Texas, California, Guatemala, and Ecuador. A career change in 1986 brought him to Albuquerque, New Mexico. For the next 17 years his work as a geologist included months-long stints in Italy and Belize, a semester as a student high-school teacher, and eventually as a contractor to Sandia National Laboratories as part of a team characterizing the geology of Kirtland Air Force Base. After semi-retirement in 2003 he worked for five years as a geological consultant until final retirement in 2008 when he began writing. This is his third book, after Old Forty-Four: A Historical and Geological Excursion Over New Mexico's Old Route 44 and Camps and Campsites of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in New Mexico 1933-1942, both from Sunstone Press.