Over The Santa Fe Trail To Mexico

Author : Susan Shelby Magoffin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803281161

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Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico by Susan Shelby Magoffin Pdf

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.

Author : Rowland Willard
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780806153278

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Over the Santa Fe Trail to Mexico by Rowland Willard Pdf

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.

Author : Susan Shelby Magoffin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Mexico
ISBN : OCLC:641033668

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Down the Santa Fé trail and into Mexico by Susan Shelby Magoffin Pdf

Author : Susan Shelby Magoffin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:432568065

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Down the Santa Fé Trail and Into Mexico by Susan Shelby Magoffin Pdf

Author : David Dary
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700618705

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The Santa Fe Trail by David Dary Pdf

Author : Ronald J. Dulle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 0878425713

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Tracing the Santa Fe Trail by Ronald J. Dulle Pdf

Compared to such famous frontier paths as Lewis and Clark's route and the Oregon Trail, most people know little about the seminal trade route we call the Santa Fe Trail, yet this rough wagon road endured longer than any other American trail west of the Mississippi River. From 1821 to 1880, bold and daring men loaded their wagons with trade goods and set out from Missouri to Santa Fe, in the newly independent nation of Mexico. These merchants, teamsters, and travelers exchanged not only material goods, but also ideas and customs, forever altering the cultural and political landscape for American, Mexican, and Indian peoples along the route. Taking the reader on an imaginative tour from end to end, author Ronald Dulle often stops to explore how wagon trains are organized or what a campsite looks like; to notice the strange food, clothing, and habits of the day; or to imagine the feeling of a rainy day in the saddle. With dozens of stunning color photographs and a fascinating narrative, Dulle helps readers envision the frontier experience and appreciate the myriad material and cultural changes the Santa Fe Trail brought to our growing nation.

Author : William Young Chalfant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0806126132

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Dangerous Passage by William Young Chalfant Pdf

Profiles personalities of the era and chronicles the Indians' response to increased travel through their territory.

Author : Linda Thompson
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781621699415

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Traveling The Santa Fe Trail by Linda Thompson Pdf

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.

Author : Matthew C. Field
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0806127163

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Matt Field on the Santa Fe Trail by Matthew C. Field Pdf

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.

Author : James A. Crutchfield
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493039876

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On the Santa Fe Trail by James A. Crutchfield Pdf

The Santa Fe Trail’s role as the major western trade route in the early to mid-nineteenth century made it a critical part of America’s Westward expansion and the stories of its heyday include some of the greatest adventures in the history of the Old West. Drawn from first-hand accounts of early entrepreneurs and emigrants who braved the Santa Fe Trail between 1820 and 1880, this history reveals the lure of the West and puts its importance to American history in context. On the Santa Fe Trail paints a portrait of the land before the wagon tracks were carved in its surface and recounts the hardships, dangers, and adventures faced by the hardy souls who went West to make their fortunes.

Author : Doug Hocking
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493041800

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Terror on the Santa Fe Trail by Doug Hocking Pdf

*Winner of the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Nonfiction* In the 1840s and 50s, the Jicarilla Apache were the terror of the Santa Fe Trail and the Rio Arriba. They repeatedly clashed with the cavalry and raided wagon trains, and there was bad blood between the band and the Army after the Battle of San Pasqual, when they were on opposite sides during the Mexican American War. In 1854, as traffic was on the increase along the historic trade route, the Jicarilla soundly defeated the 1st United States Dragoons in the Battle of Cieneguilla. Cieneguilla was the worst defeat of the US Army in the West up to that time, and it was just one of the first major battles between the US Army and Apache forces during the Ute Wars. According to one version of events, the 60 dragoons, under the direction of a Lt. Davidson, had engaged in an unauthorized attack on theJicarilla while they were out on patrol. Others claimed that the Jicarilla either ambushed the Army or taunted them into attack. Kit Carson, who was agent for the Jicarilla, would defend Davidson’s actions—and after this fight, he served as a scout against the Jicarilla. Much like the Sioux defeat of Custer at Little Big Horn, the Jicarilla’s victory over the Army led to retribution and disaster. The Jicarilla were defeated and faded from memory before the Civil War. These are the events that brought them to ruin.

Author : Ginger Wadsworth
Publisher : Albert Whitman
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000045808890

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Along the Santa Fe Trail by Ginger Wadsworth Pdf

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.

Author : Stephen Garrison Hyslop
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0806133899

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Bound for Santa Fe by Stephen Garrison Hyslop Pdf

The political, military, and social importance of the Santa Fe trail is revealed in this lively historical account of one of the most important roads in American history.

Author : Marc Simmons
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1986-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700603169

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On the Santa Fe Trail by Marc Simmons Pdf

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 parts of five modern states—Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico. From the perspective of the overland trade, those five are forever bound in historical communion. The route began in Missouri and ended, after almost a thousand miles, in New Mexico. But it was Kansas that claimed the largest share of the trail: from a beginning point at either Kansas City or Fort Leavenworth it angled across the entire state, exiting over four hundred miles later in the southwestern corner. It would be no exaggeration to say that trade and travel on the Santa Fe Trail derived much of its special flavor from the Kansas experience and that, in turn, the presence of the trail went a long way toward shaping the early history of the state. Many participants in this story, overlanders of various kinds, wrote down what they saw and learned on the way to Santa Fe. It is with that in mind that Marc Simmons has here collected a dozen narratives and reports from the middle years of the trail's history—from the early 1840s to the late '60s—that is, just after New Mexico had passed into American hands. It was a period of intense Indian-white conflict and before the establishment of rail lines along the route. The authors of these narratives—among them several teenagers, a Spanish aristocrat, an Indian agent, a German immigrant lady, a government scout, and a young New Mexican drover of the peon class—qualify as plain folk who, without quite intending to, got swept up in the westering adventure. Simmons has written an introduction to the collection and to each of the narratives.

Author : Max L. Moorhead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Camino Real
ISBN : UOM:39015009065999

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New Mexico's Royal Road by Max L. Moorhead Pdf

A study of the classic north-south highway connecting Santa Fe and Chihauhau, pioneered by Onate in 1598.