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Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Language
English
Description
On the Santa Fe Trail, a collection of first-hand accounts by nineteenth-century overlanders, offers an intensely personal view of that arduous trip. In retrospect, the history of the Santa Fe Trail--crossing forests, prairies, rivers, and deserts--seems overlayed with the gloss of romance and chivalry. It is set off by heroic attitudes and picturesque adventures. And it has left a deep imprint on one region of the American West. The trail crossed...
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Series
American exploration and travel volume 29
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Language
English
Description
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 Cimmaron Route. Written inverters in his journal and in 85 articles later published in the Picayune,...
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Series
North Star books volume 5
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1958
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the Sante Fe Trail from Independence, Missouri, across Kansas and then southwestward. It tells of Zebulon Pike, Kit Carson, the four Bent brothers and General Kearney and their heroic exploits.
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