The old Santa Fe Trail /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vestal, Stanley, 1887-1957
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, ©1996.
Temas:
Frontier and pioneer life > Southwest, New.
HISTORY > State & Local.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Santa Fe National Historic Trail.
New Southwest.
United States > Santa Fe National Historic Trail.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: The prairie ocean
  • Windwagon
  • Outfitting for the trail
  • Preparations for the march
  • The trail to Council Grove
  • Stampede
  • Part II: Council Grove
  • The start
  • Diamond Springs
  • Part III: Grand Arkansas
  • Buffalo fever
  • Running meat
  • Part V: The fork in the trail
  • Pawnee Rock
  • 'Prairie prison'
  • The crossing of the Arkansas
  • Part V: The desert route
  • The Cimarron Desert
  • The Canadian River
  • Part VI: The mountain route
  • Chouteau's Island
  • Medicine Horse
  • Sand Creek
  • Kit Carson's last smoke
  • The big timbers
  • Little chief
  • Bent's old fort
  • Part VII: La Fonda
  • The end of the trail
  • Appendix: Notes
  • Chronology of the trail
  • Mileage and stops on the Santa Fe Trail
  • The commerce of the prairies
  • Bibliography.

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