Download or read book Down the Santa F Trail and Into Mexico written by Susan Shelby Magoffin and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico written by Susan Shelby Magoffin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1846 Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen years old and a bride of less than eight months, set out with her husband, a veteran Santa Fe trader, on a trek from Independence, Missouri, through New Mexico and south to Chihuahua. Her travel journal was written at a crucial time, when the Mexican War was beginning and New Mexico was occupied by Stephen Watts Kearny and the Army of the West. Her journal describes the excitement, routine, and dangers of a successful merchant's wife. On the trail for fifteen months, moving from house to house and town to town, she became adept in Spanish and the lingo of traders, and wrote down in detail the customs and appearances of places she went. She gave birth to her first child during the journey and admitted, "This thing of marrying is not what it is cracked up to be." Valuable as a social and historical record of her encounters—she met Zachary Taylor and was agreeably disappointed to find him disheveled but kindly—her journal is equally important as a chronicle of her growing intelligence, experience, and strength, her lost illusions and her coming to terms with herself.
Download or read book Over the Santa Fe Trail to Mexico written by Rowland Willard and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first Anglo-Americans to record their travels to New Mexico, Dr. Rowland Willard (1794–1884) journeyed west on the Santa Fe Trail in 1825 and then down the Camino Real into Mexico, taking notes along the way. This edition of the young physician’s travel diaries and subsequent autobiography, annotated by New Mexico Deputy State Librarian Joy L. Poole, is a rich historical source on the two trails and the practice of medicine in the 1820s. Few Americans knew much about New Mexico when Willard set out on his journey from St. Charles, Missouri, where he had recently completed a medical apprenticeship. The growing commerce with the Southwest presented opportunities for the ambitious doctor. On his first day travelling the plains of the Santa Fe Trail, he met the mountain man Hugh Glass, who regaled Willard with stories of his wilderness experiences. Conducting a physical examination of Glass, Dr. Willard provided the only eye witness medical account of Glass’s deformities resulting from a grizzly bear attack. Willard referred to the mountain man as Father Glass, a testimony to his age. He visited Santa Fe, practiced medicine in Taos, then traveled south to Chihuahua, arriving during a measles epidemic. Willard treated patients in Mexico for two years before returning to Missouri in 1828. Willard’s narrative challenges long-accepted assumptions about the exact routes taken by pack trains on the Santa Fe Trail. It also provides thrilling glimpses of a landscape densely populated with wildlife. The doctor describes “a great theater of nature,” with droves of elk and buffalo, and “wolf and antelope skipping in every direction.” With his traveling companions he hunted buffalo by crawling after them on all fours, afterward making jerky out of bison meat and boats out of their hides. Willard also details his medical practice, offering a revealing view of physicians’ operating practices in a time when sanitation and anesthesia were rare. The Santa Fe Trail and Camino Real took Willard on the journey of a lifetime. This account recalls the early days of the Santa Fe Trail trade and westward American migration, when a doctor from Missouri could cross paths with mountain men, traders, Mexican clergymen, and government officials on their way to new opportunities.
Download or read book Matt Field on the Santa Fe Trail written by Matthew C. Field and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1839 a journalist for the New Orleans Picayune, Matthew C. Field, joined a company of merchants and tourists headed west on the Santa Fe Trail. Leaving Independence, Missouri, early in July "with a few wagons and a carefree spirit," Field recorded his vivid impressions of travel westward on the Santa Fe Trail and, on the return trip, eastward along the Cimarron Route. Written in verse in his journal and in eighty-five articles later published in the Picayune, Field’s observations offer the modern reader a unique glimpse of life in the settlements of Mexico and on the Santa Fe Trail.
Download or read book Dangerous Passage written by William Young Chalfant and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles personalities of the era and chronicles the Indians' response to increased travel through their territory.
Download or read book Down the Santa F trail and into Mexico written by Susan Shelby Magoffin and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Santa Fe Trail written by Robert Luther Duffus and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lively history of this great trade artery is once more available.
Download or read book Traveling The Santa Fe Trail written by Linda Thompson and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young learners will be introduced to an important stage in history when they read Traveling The Santa Fe Trail. This book is filled with photographs, interesting facts, discussion questions, and more, to effectively engage young learners in such a significant re-telling of events. Each 48-page title in The History Of America Collection delves into complex narratives in history. Concise, but comprehensive, these titles are very approachable for transitioning readers and learners beginning to recognize detail orientation and how to analyze text. Each book in this series features photographs, timelines, discussion questions, and more, to fully engage transitioning readers. The History Of America Collection engages students in major historical events with fascinating facts, photographs, and more. Readers are able to gauge their own understanding with before-reading questions that help build background knowledge and end-of-book comprehension and extension activities.
Download or read book Murder on the Santa Fe Trail written by Marc Simmons and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-length account of the 1843 murder of wealthy merchant Don Antonio Jose Chavez by outlaws on the Santa Fe Trail, a murder which threatened to disrupt the profitable overland trade between the 3 countries of Mexico, Texas, and the United States.
Download or read book Following the Santa Fe Trail written by Marc Simmons and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic pioneer trails serve as some of the most fascinating links to our nation's past and retracing them can be an exhilarating and educational experience. Following the Santa Fe Trail is aimed at assisting modern travelers to enlarge their understanding of the trail and increase the enjoyment that comes from following in the wagon tracks of pioneers. Originating in Franklin, Missouri, the Santa Fe Trail was the first and most exotic of America's great trans-Mississippi pathways to the west. Although the era of the trail ceased, its glory-days are still part of the collective imagination of America. Complete with directions, maps, anecdotes, and historical information, Following the Santa Fe Trail takes the traveler on an authentic historic journey. Modern paved highways now parallel much of the old wagon route and with this guide a modern adventurer can retrace large sections of the trail. Since Following the Santa Fe Trail first appeared in 1984, the trail was designated a National Historic Trail under the National Park Service and public interest has mushroomed. This completely revised third edition now updates all directions and clarifies the changes that have taken place in the last 15 years.
Download or read book Down the Santa F Trail and Into Mexico written by Susan Shelby Magoffin and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Santa Fe Trail Adventures written by Dave Webb and published by . This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its sixth printing, this Santa Fe Trail activity book features a new cover and several updates. And, it still includes 88 pages of Santa Fe Trail articles and stories, biographies of trail travelers, coloring pages, reproducible activities and project ideas. Articles cover the trail's history, routes, cargo, jobs on a wagon train, draft animals, wagon types and conflicts with Indians.Topics are discussed in one or more pages of easy-to-read text, followed by maps, timelines, vocabulary, word puzzles, writing, sequencing, graphs, charts/tables, outlines, diagrams, categorizing, math plus a reading list, places to visit, and answer keys.
Download or read book Adventures in the Santa F Trade 1844 1847 written by James Josiah Webb and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Josiah Webb left Independence, Missouri, in the summer of 1844 and headed down the Santa Fe Trail with goods bought in St. Louis. Although his first venture as a trader was a failure, he eventually made a fortune as a merchant in Santa Fe. Webb recorded his youthful experiences in 1888, and Ralph P. Bieber, a respected scholar and researcher on western expansion, edited and annotated his journal for publication more than forty years later. Long out of print, Adventures in the Santa Fe Trade is an entertaining and important source of first-hand information about the Santa Fe Trail and trade; trappers, Mexicans, and Indian tribes of the Old Southwest; and the impact of the Mexican War on southwestern trade.
Download or read book Land of Enchantment Memoirs of Marian Russell Along The Santa F Trail written by Marion Sloan Russell and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few of the great overland highways of America have known such a wealth of color and romance as that which surrounded the Santa Fé Trail. For over four centuries the dust-gray and muddy-red trail felt the moccasined tread of Comanches, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Arapahoes. These soft footfalls were replaced by the bold harsh clang of the armored conqueror, Coronado, and by a host of Spanish explorers and soldiers seeking the gold of fabled Quivira. Black and brown-robed priests, armed only with the cross, were followed in turn by bearded buckskin-clad fur traders and mountain men, by canny Indian traders, and lean, weather-beaten drovers with great herds of long-horned cattle. [...] The story dictated in such vivid detail by Marian Sloan Russell is a unique and valuable eyewitness account by a sensitive, intelligent girl who grew to maturity on the kaleidoscopic Santa Fé Trail. “Maid Marian,” as she was known by the freighters and soldiers, made five round-trip crossings of the trail before settling down to live her adult life along its deeply rutted traces. —From Foreword “When it was first published in 1954, Marian Russell’s Land of Enchantment was praised as an outstanding memoir of life on the Santa Fe Trail...Now readers everywhere can enjoy Mrs. Russell’s recollections,... And those readers will discover that Mrs. Russell described much more than just life on the Trail. Indeed her memoirs cover virtually every aspect of life in the West...—Southwest Review “These memoirs reveal a strong, energetic woman whose perceptions of old Santa Fe and pioneer life on the trail paint a vivid picture of the nineteenth-century West. The unusual and exact details which Marian Russell recalls make her story enthrallingly real.”—American West
Download or read book The Old Santa F Trail written by Henry Inman and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic on all the trials and tribulations of the Santa Fe Trail, the Indian deprevations, the Mexican problems, the Fontier Military, the Fur Trappers, Fur Trade, and Mountain Men, Kit Carson, Uncle Dick Wooten, Buffalo Bill Cody, the Bents, Jim Beckwourth.
Download or read book Re Riding History written by Curtiss Frank and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author rides horseback to retrace the Old Santa Fe Trail to see what early trail travelers experienced.
Download or read book Along the Santa Fe Trail written by Ginger Wadsworth and published by Albert Whitman. This book was released on 1993 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1852, seven-year-old Marion Sloan travels with her mother and older brother in a wagon train along the Santa Fe Trail, experiencing both hardship and wonder.
