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Author Vestal, Stanley, 1887-1957.

Title The old Santa Fe Trail / by Stanley Vestal ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Marc Simmons.

Publication Info. Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, [1996]
©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1939.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-293).
Summary 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.
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Subject Santa Fe National Historic Trail.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Southwest, New.
Frontier and pioneer life.
New Southwest.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Vestal, Stanley, 1887-1957. Old Santa Fe Trail. Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, ©1996 0803296150 (DLC) 96002238 (OCoLC)34191936
ISBN 0585258406 (electronic book)
9780585258409 (electronic book)