Terror On The Santa Fe Trail

Author : Doug Hocking
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Edward Sylvester Ellis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387097177

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Lightning Jo; The Terror of the Santa Fe Trail, A Tale of the Present Day by Edward Sylvester Ellis Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Edward Sylvester Ellis
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547091547

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Lightning Jo, the Terror of the Santa Fe Trail: A Tale of the Present Day by Edward Sylvester Ellis Pdf

Lightning Jo is a western novel about a scout who aids American war generals in their colonist battles against the Native Americans. Joe, the brave and heroic cowboy, must help Colonel Gibbons and Colonel Greaves in the fight against the Comanche natives. An adept horseback rider gifted with a rifle, Lightning Jo is the perfect man for the job.

Author : Augustus Allen Hayes
Publisher : New York : Harper
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Colorado
ISBN : NYPL:33433081812376

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New Colorado and the Santa Fé Trail by Augustus Allen Hayes Pdf

Author : Robert Peecher
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1723844217

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A Trail Too Far: A Western Frontier Adventure by Robert Peecher Pdf

Terror on the Santa Fe Trail. A gang of border ruffians are loose on the Kansas prairie in 1860, committing callous murder as they drift from one place to the next. Amos Cummings is the patriarch of family of emigrants, seeking to start a new life in California. Cummings has hired Rab Sinclair to guide his party as far as Santa Fe. But Rab's easy way in the wilderness does not mix well with the family's Eastern values, and he soon finds himself at odds with some among them. When Amos Cummings' wife and daughter develop a fondness for Rab, the relationship is strained even farther. But when the family encounters the gang of bloodthirsty bandits, their moral code against violence will be tested. When these ruffians abduct one among the emigrants, Rab Sinclair may find that to save his charge he must travel A Trail Too Far. If you love classic Westerns under open skies and over rolling plains, A Trail Too Far promises to be an instant favorite. So check that you've got plenty of beans and jerky, and saddle up for an overland crossing on the Santa Fe Trail. Click the buy button to start reading now!

Author : Ray John de Aragon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467150545

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New Mexico Native American Lore: Skinwalkers, Kachinas, Spirits and Dark Omens by Ray John de Aragon Pdf

Pull on the uncanny threads from the legendary tapestry of New Mexico's Native American heritage. Ancient Indian history and present Native American cultures are woven together in the Land of Enchantment. The threads of these tales stretch back to Mimbres burial grounds and prehistoric trade routes. Stories and traditions tie the land to its people, in spite of the cycles of slaughter and theft that have threatened to pluck them apart. Descend into the kivas of Chaco Canyon or seek out the high mountains where the clouds mark the stones. From legends of the Salt Woman to the legacy of the Ghost Dance, Ray John de Aragon examines the mysteries of the mesas.

Author : Neil P. Chatelain
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476693811

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Treasure and Empire in the Civil War by Neil P. Chatelain Pdf

Across North America's periphery, unknown and overlooked Civil War campaigns were waged over whether the United States or Confederacy would dominate lands, mines, and seaborne transportation networks of North America's mineral wealth. The U.S. needed this wealth to stabilize their wartime economy while the Confederacy sought to expand their own treasury. Confederate armies advanced to seize the West and its gold and silver reserves, while warships steamed to intercept Panama route ships transporting bullion from California to Panama to New York. United States forces responded by expelling Confederate incursions and solidified territorial control by combating Indigenous populations and enacting laws encouraging frontier settlement. The U.S. Navy patrolled key ports, convoyed treasure ships, and integrated continent-wide intelligence networks in the ultimate game of cat and mouse. This book examines the campaigns to control North America's mineral wealth, linking the Civil War's military, naval, political, diplomatic and economic elements. Included are the hemispheric land and sea adventures involving tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, admiral and explorer Charles Wilkes, renowned sea captain Raphael Semmes, General Henry Sibley, cowboy and mountain man Kit Carson, Indigenous leaders Mangas Coloradas and Geronimo, writer and miner Mark Twain, and Mormon leader Brigham Young.

Author : Robert Luther Duffus
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : 0826302351

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The Santa Fe Trail by Robert Luther Duffus Pdf

The lively history of this great trade artery is once more available.

Author : Phyllis S. Morgan
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826335241

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Marc Simmons of New Mexico by Phyllis S. Morgan Pdf

A biography and a complete bibliography of New Mexico's leading independent historian.

Author : Ralph Compton
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429903172

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The Santa Fe Trail by Ralph Compton Pdf

An extraordinary saga of the trail-blazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the Great Frontier. They left Missouri and were headed to Santa Fe. Standing in their way was a parched desert, a land of outlaws and enemies-and one man's dangerous past. He was a wealthy englishman with two beautiful daughters. They were five dusty texans and a gambling man. And they were all on the ride of their lives. The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-making trail drives. The Santa Fe Trail Gavin McCord and his brawling cowboys came to Missouri with a problem: 3,500 longhorns and not one buyer. That's where Gladstone Pitkin came in. A man with money and a dream of ranching in New Mexico, Pitkin bought McCord's cattle and hired his Texans for a trail drive from Independence to Santa Fe. But with an ill-fated gambler on the drive, the courageous, hardened riders weren't just a thousand brutal miles from Santa Fe-they were heading into a death trap.

Author : Henry Inman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : UOM:39015014157385

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The Old Santa Fé Trail by Henry Inman Pdf

Author : Stanley Vestal
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803296150

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The Old Santa Fe Trail by Stanley Vestal Pdf

The Santa Fe Trail was one of the two great overland highways originating in Missouri in the nineteenth century. Several decades before settlers streamed over the Oregon Trail, traders were heading southwest. The caravans carried the wares of Yankee commerce; they returned loaded with buffalo robes and beaver pelts and the rich metals of Mexican mines. The thousand-mile journey “was a perilous cruise across a boundless sea of grass, over forbidding mountains, among wild beasts and wilder men, ending in an exotic city offering quick riches, friendly foreign women, and a moral holiday,” writes Stanley Vestal. Vestal begins where the trail does. He describes outfitting for the trip, the society formed for survival, the hunt for meat, landmarks, and the dangers. He evokes the history and legends surrounding the trail at every point, including figures like Kit Carson, Jedediah Smith, the Bent brothers, and Uncle Dick Wooton.

Author : Matthew C. Field
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Henry Inman
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385440500

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Stories of the Old Santa Fe Trail by Henry Inman Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author : Henry Inman
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385440517

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Stories of the Old Santa Fe Trail by Henry Inman Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.