On the Santa Fe Trail /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Crutchfield, James A., 1938- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Guilford, Connecticut : TwoDot, [2019]
Subjects:	Santa Fe National Historic Trail > History. Pioneers > Santa Fe National Historic Trail. Frontier and pioneer life > Southwest, New.

Table of Contents:

Before the Santa Fe Trail was a trail
The lure of Santa Fe
Trails West! Surveying the Trail
Freighting on the Santa Fe Trail
The first military escort on the Santa Fe Trail
Bent's Fort
Women on the Santa Fe Trail
Josiah Gregg
The Army of the West
The Santa Fe Trail during the 1850s and 1860s
The railroad and the end of the Santa Fe Trail
The Santa Fe Trail Today
Appendix A: Chronology of important events in the evolution and development of the Santa Fe Trail
Appendix B: General Stephen Watts Kearny's speech to the citizens of Las Vegas
Appendix C: General Stephen Watts Kearny's proclamation to the citizens of Santa Fe
Appendix D: Josiah Gregg's table of distances between Independence, Missouri, and Santa Fe, New Mexico
Appendix E: Josiah Gregg's table of Santa Fe trade statistics.